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The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell & The Fate of the Artist
The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell & The Fate of the Artist in Bloomington, MN
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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
, 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:
: In an autobiography, the author and the subject are the same person… but now they’ve both gone missing.
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
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.
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
, 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:
: In an autobiography, the author and the subject are the same person… but now they’ve both gone missing.
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
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.
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