The second fake death of Eddie Campbell : The fate of the artist
Call Number
- GRAPHIC NOVEL CAMP (CEN)
Publication Information
San Diego, CA : Top Shelf Productions, [2023]
Physical Description
95, 95 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
SIDE A: The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell, by Eddie Campbell, is a spiritual sequel to his acclaimed graphic novel The Fate of the Artist, 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: The Fate of the Artist: In an autobiography, the author and the subject are the same person... but now they've both gone missing. The Fate of the Artist 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 From Hell 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.
Notes
At head of alternate title: "His domestic apocalypse."
Bound tête-bêche.
"Two books in one. Flip over for conjoined graphic novel"--Covers.
"The Fate of the Artist was originally published in 2006 by First Second Books."--Colophon.