{"id":16165,"date":"2023-07-11T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=16165"},"modified":"2023-07-11T08:43:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:43:25","slug":"episode-545-eddie-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-545-eddie-campbell","title":{"rendered":"Episode 545 – Eddie Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 545:
\nEddie Campbell<\/a><\/p>\n

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“There’s probably a memento mori that runs through all my work, including The Fate of the Artist & The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell. The reminder that life is short and don’t take it for granted.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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With the publication of The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell<\/a> (Top Shelf), the great cartoonist Eddie Campbell<\/a> brings his decades-long autobiographical comics project into the COVID era. In this return conversation (go listen to our 2018 episode<\/a> & our 2020 COVID check-in<\/a>)<\/em> we talk about the meta-narratives that haunt his books, the culture of masks that prompted his latest work, how it felt getting back to making long-form comics again, and whose idea it was to publish this one like an Ace Double along with the revised version of\u00a0The Fate Of The Artist<\/em>. We also get into how he learned to make art with computers and how that learning curve accelerated when he was making the color version of From Hell<\/a>, the temptation to revise past work, why his last two major autobio books involve his fictional death, and a lot<\/em> more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“The pictures in my head all those years ago were in black pen & ink. Ideally, the pictures in your head are slightly ahead of what’s possible. You picture things that are going to challenge you.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n