Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbellis a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell, Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus, a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day. His graphic novel The Lovely Horrible Stuff, which playfully investigates our relationship with money, was published in July 2012 by Top...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth10 August 1955
I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
They're seemed to be some perception when I came on that I was bringing it down to earth a bit more, but I've done totally the opposite.
They're about real life, these books, both like novel length things. There's another book I did last year, A Thousand and One Nights of Bacchus.
I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.
I'm not saying that if there is something horrible in the world we shouldn't draw attention to it hide my head under the carpet like a big ostrich.
It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
I dont want to write, Id rather draw.
I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.