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Eddie Campbell [1955-0] Scottish

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Artist, Comics artist

Eddie Campbell is 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.

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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.		101
I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.		102
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.		103
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.		104
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.		105
All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.		106
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.		107
They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.		108
It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.		109
It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.		110
You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.		111
We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.		112
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.		113
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.		114
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.		115
I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.		116
They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.		117
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.		118
I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.		119
There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.		120
By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.		121

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