Tag Archive | "Eddie Campbell"

Eddie Campbell gets back on the blog….

Sunday, June 26, 2011

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Mr Eddie Campbell’s blog, long dormant, has suddenly sprung back into life. This is a good thing. Why is it a good thing? Because we get lines like this: “My local paper had an article about the long running Uncanny X-MEN being put to rest. It was very salutational. The press pays so little interest [...]

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Moonlight Art

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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Tim Hayes drops us a line to let us know that the new Moonlight Art magazine #1 is out now and features interviews with Camilla d’Errico (who also provides the distinctive cover artwork, seen above), Aunia Kahn, Beth Post, Dame Darcy, Eddie Campbell and John Higgins, plus comics from Frank Kane and Christopher Moonlight. And [...]

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Eddie Campbell Double Feature….

Sunday, November 21, 2010

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Two really interesting Eddie Campbell pieces for your weekend pleasure here: First we have a very interesting and thought provoking analysis piece on Campbell, his classic How To Be An Artist (included in the magnificent Alec) and the connection with Alan Moore, Bill Sienkievicz, Big Numbers, Chaos Mathematics and Mandlebrot. It’s over on The Mindless [...]

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Eddie Campbell in Parma

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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The excellent Eddie Campbell talk to Alfredo Giofreddi in the POPstore in Parma, Italy in 2009. We’re always happy at any excuse to enjoy anything related to Eddie Campbell… Part one: Eddie Campbell @ POPstore (Parma, Italy) 1/2 from mind the closure on Vimeo. Part two: Eddie Campbell @ POPstore (Parma, Italy) 2/2 from mind [...]

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The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains (or a story in an opera house in Sydney)

Saturday, August 28, 2010

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Neil Gaiman recently did a performance reading of his short story “The Truth Is A Cave in The Black Mountains” at Sydney Opera House. Accompaniment was courtesy of with artwork from Eddie Campbell and live music from The FourPlay String Quartet: Gaiman writes about it here, five minutes of edited video is here and the complete [...]

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Fab special offer on the Playwright

Thursday, July 29, 2010

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You may have noticed that our branches have their own Facebook groups; it’s a handy way to follow news from your local FPI, hear what’s just come in, what the staff are enjoying reading this week and also to find out about some pretty fine special offers. Like 50% off Daren White and Eddie Campbell’s [...]

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The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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“We are pleased to present a world first; Neil Gaiman reading aloud the previously unreleased story “The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains”,in the spectacular surrounds of the Concert Hall at Sydney Opera House. We have commissioned the renowned artist Eddie Campbell to illustrate the story, while FourPlay String Quartet have been commissioned [...]

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Eddie Campbell interviewed

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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You know, we just don’t link enough to The Comics Journal website and to be honest, I really don’t spend enough time reading it either. But one of the great things about the website is the sheer volume of archive material they have access to, material they regularly make available, completely free (no paywalls here) [...]

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Alec – Here. Finally.

Monday, December 28, 2009

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Email from Chris Staros: “EDDIE CAMPBELL’S OMNIBUS, ALEC: THE YEARS HAVE PANTS, IS NOW IN STOCK AND HITTING STORES THIS WEEK!” At long last. Thank you lord. There’s a Christmas wish answered. Here’s the press publicity piece (none of which I could actually disagree with): “Alec is a brilliant and insightful romp through Eddie’s life, [...]

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Alec – designing those pants…..

Saturday, December 12, 2009

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Alec: The Years Have Pants by Eddie Campbell will be required reading this Christmas for many of us. It will sit beautifully on our shelves, looking spiffy and gorgeous thanks to the design work of Eric Skillman, who’s good enough to share the entire design process over on his blog, from getting a first speculative [...]

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Eddie Campbell, master of graphic autobiography

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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“If autobiography is the lingua franca of the graphic novel form, Campbell is its undisputed Shakespeare,” Richard Pachter summing up some of the best graphic novel releases for the Miami Herald. I love that. I think that’s going to be my favourite quote of the week.  (via Leigh Walton’s Twitter) (Alec the Years Have Pants [...]

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Interviews with Messrs. Campbell and Sacco anyone?

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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It’s Sunday morning and you really don’t want to get out of bed to pick up the Sunday papers yet but fancy a bit of entertaining reading? Ah, we have the perfect solution. (Joe Sacco photograph by Richard Saker from the Guardian website.) First up a quick interview in the Guardian with Joe Sacco, discussing [...]

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Tintin sketches

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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Top Shelf’s Leigh Walton has collected a whole array of Tintin themed sketches from a diverse number of comics artists at conventions over the years, from Bryan Lee O’Malley to Kate Beaton to James Kochalka to Eddie Campbell (whose Thomson and Thompsons can be seen below). Extremely cool! Via Comics Alliance (in turn via Heidi [...]

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Comica news – Graphic Short Story prize announced & Campbell and Brown in conversation

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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Okay, the Comica festival happens all the way through November and full details are up at the Comica website. But here’s a recent announcement we wanted to share with you. Just confirmed is the news that Eddie Campbell (Alec, From Hell) will be in conversation with Scottish pioneer of stand-up comedy, Arnold Brown at Comica [...]

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Eddie Campbell talks

Monday, October 19, 2009

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Video of the always interesting Eddie Campbell at a Bookslut reading from last year; link via Tom at Comics Reporter: Eddie Campbell Reading – July 2008 from Jessa Crispin on Vimeo.

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