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.