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 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.
None of the archaeological digs had been properly written up at that time, they had happened, but they hadn't been properly analysed and published.
It was in the eighties. I've sent all the bloody notes to Alan. But his special interest was treating women's problems with hysteria.
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'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.
I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
I dont want to write, Id rather draw.
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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.
I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.