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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 1, 2009
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 on [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 19, 2009
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.
Continue reading...Sunday, September 6, 2009
(Two flavours of the upcoming Alec book: hardback to the left, softcover to the right.) Top Shelf have released some preview pages from Alec: The Years Have Pants by Eddie Campbell. It’s available from October 2009 – click here to pre-order from the FPI webstore. This is one of those books that you just know [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 15, 2009
The sixth Comica Festival, curated by Paul Gravett, takes place in London this November. Comica is a festival of many disparate events on comics and the artform, but always manages to get some particularly good guests and some very special events. For example…… From Paul Gravett’s Comica site: “Eddie Campbell is the first confirmed international guest [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Last spring I had a nice break in Paris and being me I had to go into a couple of bookstores and check out the graphic novels selection. Among the European works I noticed French editions of UK and US (and other) creators, including, I couldn’t help but notice, a rather nice big collection of [...]
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
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