tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post7678204245935738518..comments2024-03-27T05:22:27.604-05:00Comments on Eddie Campbell: The Ripper Files. part 1.Eddie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-18530191865748833892012-06-25T21:54:18.493-05:002012-06-25T21:54:18.493-05:00no tattoos. One of the most balanced and happy per...no tattoos. One of the most balanced and happy personalities I've ever known.<br /><br /><br />http://hayleycampbell.com/about/Eddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-643152124001415302012-06-25T02:58:10.720-05:002012-06-25T02:58:10.720-05:00Wow poor kid, a 7 year who thinks about decomposin...Wow poor kid, a 7 year who thinks about decomposing bodies and dismembering people is pretty tragic. She probably ended up with a face tattoo and a penchant for "self-harm".Morbid Mollynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-75236958626328668632006-12-14T19:38:00.000-05:002006-12-14T19:38:00.000-05:00Ouch. A crossword puzzle. That sounds boring. I'm ...Ouch. A crossword puzzle. That sounds boring. I'm glad what criticism I have of your work isn't anywhere near as severe as how you've characterized it. Otherwise, it sounds like reading your book would be quite a chore, which isn't how I experienced it at all.<br /><br />Whether you intended to or not, the way you chose to tell your story was unconventional and inventive, which is one of the reasons I tend to enjoy your work in general. So when you say, "I wasn't attempting to explore new territory" I'm assuming you don't mean you were attempting to explore territory already well tread.<br /><br />If you mean that you don't find your own book particularly inventive on a formal level, that's an arguable point, and I'm sure, you of all people could point out many many precedents. <br /><br />"you just don't understand me" is too easy. Maybe you're right, and I'll have some great epiphany somewhere down the road, but I think I did have a good sense of what you were attempting to get across, and it's fair of me, in my own assessment of my own personal reading material, to make the conclusion that there were a lot of good ideas, yes, there was a recognizable theme, but maybe your conclusion wasn't the same as my conclusion, and it's perfectly fair for the two of us to disagree.<br /><br />Fortunately, there exists a world of critical thought beyond the two camps of "those who understand me" and "those who don't". There can also be "those who respectfully disagree with me" and "those who have different ideas from mine which are perhaps equally valid". <br /><br />I've enjoyed reading about, and have identified with the people in your comics, including your own stand-in, and I've had this experience, or at least some convincing facsimile, at various points as I read Fate of the Artist. Of course my identification may be with something other than what you're convinced you expressed, or were attempting to express. But isn't that great? Isn't it great that there's not just one way to interpret or view your work?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-57093886656094897862006-12-14T17:07:00.000-05:002006-12-14T17:07:00.000-05:00Jed wrote
"I don't think it was a failure so much ...Jed wrote<br />"I don't think it was a failure so much as what could be a necessary formal experiment. You were attempting to explore new territory, which is a sincerely brave thing to do. If it wasn't entirely a success as a book... "<br /><br />If all you got out of FATE was the kind of engagement you'd get from doing a crossword puzzle, you definitely missed the meaning of the work. I wasn't attempting to explore new territory. I had something very specific but complicated to put across and I found a form capable of carrying that meaning (I had already tried and failed in two other attempts at it). I think one day you may find yourself staring out of the window of a train and it will come to you in amoment of revelation. 'waitaminute! Now I see what he was getting at!Eddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-82038931125181142912006-12-14T14:02:00.000-05:002006-12-14T14:02:00.000-05:00Man, I actually quoted that "Jackarippy" comment t...Man, I actually quoted that "Jackarippy" comment to my wife last time I read SNOOTER.<br /><br />Too cute.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-26894617682183104442006-12-14T02:05:00.000-05:002006-12-14T02:05:00.000-05:00I didn't say I didn't care for your last two books...I didn't say I didn't care for your last two books. I liked How to be an Artist a great deal, and appreciated the way you tied in your own personal growth as an artist with a enlightenning glimpse of the premature birth of the graphic novel. The Fate of the Artist, on the other hand, had its moments, but seemed to be gazing squarely into the navel of the previous book. Formally, I think it was a valuable excercise. With that one it seemed like you were trying so many different approaches at once, sure that it would all converge into something meaningful, that when you finally got to your fourth wall pull the curtain back conclusion, it felt like you'd thoroughly lost the thread, and whatever this was meant to punctuate simply hadn't been articulated.<br /><br />I don't think it was a failure so much as what could be a necessary formal experiment. You were attempting to explore new territory, which is a sincerely brave thing to do. If it wasn't entirely a success as a book, I don't think that your means of expression or purpose were at fault, and I would be glad to see a future book in a similar format.<br /><br />I didn't think you'd given up making comics. I didn't even think keeping a blog was slowing you down. But I was curious what direction you were going in next, and how doing a daily blog might effect this, if at all, considering what a big part autobiography plays in your work. And I would never presume to suggest that you write a book to please me or any other real or imagined audience. <br /><br />I did enjoy the conversational and anecdotal style of your letters pages from Bacchus, and it hadn't occured to me to make a parallel. For some reason my own predjudices about this new medium made me miss what was essentially a similar message. <br /><br />But still, this predjudice is based on a real distaste for what can sometimes be a certain ammount of over self-exposure. Not that I have an aversion to the intimate, but unchecked graphomania in the wrong hands can sometimes lead to embarassing evidence. Sometimes sitting on something, considering it, editing it, and THEN releasing it to the world isn't such a bad idea. But as it is, and as I've said, thus far I've enjoyed my daily dose of Campbell, so this aversion isn't necessarily one I apply to everyone in equal measure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-29737262226190033732006-12-13T17:25:00.000-05:002006-12-13T17:25:00.000-05:00Mikel,
point accepted about the first of the two ...Mikel,<br /><br />point accepted about the first of the two panels. ther'e something a 'professional' look about the second one<br />but let me put it another way.<br /><br />The artist of the first one would not have been capable of managing the structural complexity of After the Snooter.<br /><br />'every advance involves a loss'<br /><br />EddieEddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-16522274986567906072006-12-13T16:20:00.000-05:002006-12-13T16:20:00.000-05:00drjon
alison made a comment under dec. 10 and I re...drjon<br />alison made a comment under dec. 10 and I responded to it there. can you email her and let her know<br />(to anyone kibitzing, this pair live together)Eddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-86761573933942928792006-12-13T16:06:00.000-05:002006-12-13T16:06:00.000-05:00thanks, all. Hayley has already answered drjon.
As...thanks, all. Hayley has already answered drjon.<br />As though I would do anything to cause Hayley Campbell embarrassment. Shame on you.<br /><br />As for Jed's concerns...<br />I'm not doing anything here that I didn't used to do on my letters pages and in the critical articles i've always written, whether for my old website, or the Comics Journal, or in my forays into forum disputes. Other than that, I have to make my way through all the options, making a living out of it as i have learned to do. there isn't a day when i am not working on a comics page for a book of my own authorship (more or less) and the fact that these works tend to appear on annual basis may give the impression that there is nothing doing here at Castle Campbell. On the other hand, if a reader just doesn't like the work any more, I don't know what can be done about that. the only honest thing is to draw the book that I see in my head. I cannot draw the book that is in your head. And if you do not like the new one as much as the first one, well that is the story of life i suppose. Eveything goes from great to paltry, as Bacchus once said.<br />But for now, I have a big new 140 page book coming out soon. I'm treading water here in my blog until I have a copy in my hand and then i shall start talking about it. I am 30 pages into a new book and I start talking about that one before the one before it we shall all get confused.Eddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-21810804400966618542006-12-13T12:57:00.000-05:002006-12-13T12:57:00.000-05:00So whatever will you write about for your next com...So whatever will you write about for your next comic? What subject will remain unexhausted? Fiction perhaps? <br /><br />It seems as though you've taken your own autobiographical ephemera and made it just a little less entertaining by reducing it to blog form, where it's now just a little more distinguished (for being better written) than the autobiographical ephemera of innumerable other bloggers.<br /><br />Though I am digging the daily dose, I still have to say, I miss the comics. And both the blog and your other two recent works are more than just self-referential---they center primarily around the creation of old works. They're about being about making somethings, while I suppose I'd prefer you sprinkle in a few stories about actual somethings, or at least, doings outside of the creation of comics. I miss the days when you could turn a trip to the mailbox into an engaging anecdote. But maybe that's a trick that's oulived its novelty.<br /><br />So perhaps the next thing to do is to focus on the lives of other compelling persons. There was a hint of this in Fate of The Artist. From Hell doesn't count because that was a collaboration which forced you outside of yourself, so without Alan Moore's help, that ammount of objectivity might be hard for you to achieve.<br /><br />Also, your version of Batman was pretty satisfying. Maybe more of that sort of thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-13095809951685889422006-12-13T12:41:00.000-05:002006-12-13T12:41:00.000-05:00Call me an ingrate, but I prefer the first version...Call me an ingrate, but I prefer the first version of the scene. It's less technically well drawn but I think has a more spontaneous feel to it, as if it was taken from a diary.<br /><br />And hey to Hayley, I have nightmares about my child one day interacting in some of -my- net communities!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-33245375311325457482006-12-13T08:45:00.000-05:002006-12-13T08:45:00.000-05:00The Ripper is back, you're right. Everyone in Lond...The Ripper is back, you're right. Everyone in London has been carrying around newspapers with the word RIPPER across the front. It's very very strange.<br /><br />And incidentally, in future when people ask 'what's it like to have a dad who--' I'll produce a printed version of The Ripper File as an explanation. Probably from my coat pocket with a <i>flourish!</i> Yes, I think I will... Then watch as they smile meekly and back away.Hayley Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16493916787628212228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-5046060995293939142006-12-13T07:37:00.000-05:002006-12-13T07:37:00.000-05:00Hi Eddie,
I'm enjoying your blog, keep it up! :) S...Hi Eddie,<br />I'm enjoying your blog, keep it up! :) Sad to have missed out on all the original artwork so far, but at least I have a first-ECC-edition of From Hell with a cello in the front of it for me!<br /><br />Meanwhile, I thought you'd be interested that there's a new Gull and he's up to his neck in it again:<br />http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ripper-fears-two-more-bodies-surface/2006/12/13/1165685712114.html?page=fullpageAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-86710528930304428892006-12-13T06:17:00.000-05:002006-12-13T06:17:00.000-05:00I think "someone" is going to be both very unhappy...I think "someone" is going to be both very unhappy and utterly unsurprised at that photo...<br /><br />;}D>drjonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14351916590417179786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-49467061418442578842006-12-13T06:16:00.000-05:002006-12-13T06:16:00.000-05:00... that being the link to Dystopia magazine, whic...... that being the link to Dystopia magazine, which I didn't know beforehand.<br /><br />On the other hand I really love this little day-by-day tiny stories mixed with its artistic consequences. Thanks!<br /><br />And more thanks... sketch arriving on Christmas... a GREAT, unexpected present. Thanks again!Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04092603226964802248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-1376963027874383492006-12-13T06:10:00.000-05:002006-12-13T06:10:00.000-05:00wowo... i'm really learning a lot from your sugges...wowo... i'm really learning a lot from your suggestions...Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04092603226964802248noreply@blogger.com