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  • Published: 15 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9781603095242
  • Imprint: IDW Publishing
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $65.00
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The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell & The Fate of the Artist




Eddie Campbell is not himself. 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.
Plus, on the flipside: a deluxe new presentation of The Fate of the Artist, Eddie Campbell’s classic work of graphic meta-memoir!

Eddie Campbell is not himself. 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.
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. 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. She hires a detective, the square-jawed Royler Boom, to solve the mystery. 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. The author cunningly passes this off as another piece of autobiography.

SIDE B: The Fate of the Artist: In an autobiography, the author and the subject are the same person… but now they’ve both gone missing. 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. 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.

  • Published: 15 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9781603095242
  • Imprint: IDW Publishing
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $65.00
Categories:

About the author

Eddie Campbell

Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist, probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell (written by Alan Moore). Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus (aka Deadface), a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day.

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Praise for The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell & The Fate of the Artist

Praise for The Fate of the Artist:

  • “Marvelous… a kind of intently controlled nervous breakdown on paper.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
  • “This is not simply a masterful work of comics; its narrative method is so unusual, building up through what at first seem to be slight fragments, and its style is such a departure, expanding the cartoonist’s expressive palette, that it represents something new and startling.” — Charles Hatfield, author of Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature
  • “As intelligent and meta-textual as this makes it, I wasn't quite ready for how funny and engrossing Fate of the Artist is. Based on what little I had seen of it, I feared that this book would be too intellectual to really enjoy. I suspected it would be something I would read once and put away. Instead, I've already read it twice.” — Sam Hobart

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