Eddie Campbell is not himself.
In this deluxe reissue of a groundbreaking book, the award-winning cartoonist of From Hell and Alec presents a complex, caustic, and fiendishly clever meditation on the lonely life of the Artist and the busy life that swirls around him..
The Fate of the Artist is a complex weaving of different strains of invention including a mock prose detective story, an imaginary Sunday comic strip, a mock fumetti-style interview with the author\'s daughter, intertwined with Campbell\'s beloved brand of autobiographical comic storytelling. but now they\'ve both gone missing.
SIDE B: The Fate of the Artist In an autobiography, the author and the subject are the same person...
The author cunningly passes this off as another piece of autobiography.
What follows -- interspersed with Campbell\'s trademark wry anecdotes, dreams, parodic pastiches, and pandemic peccadilloes -- is a thrilling investigation that builds to a car chase and a violent conclusion.
She hires a detective, the square-jawed Royler Boom, to solve the mystery.
Many years later, during an endless Covid lockdown in which everybody wears a mask and needs a haircut, Eddie\'s wife is certain that he has been supplanted by an imposter.
Plus, on the flipside: a deluxe new presentation of The Fate of the Artist , Eddie Campbell\'s classic work of graphic meta-memoir! SIDE A: The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell , by Eddie Campbell, is a spiritual sequel to his acclaimed graphic novel The Fate of the Artist , in which the author was missing from his own autobiography.
But these days, who is? It\'s meta-fictional mystery and mischief as the award-winning Artist of From Hell sets out to find his own imposter.
Eddie Campbell is not himself
