Eddie Campbell Quotes

• I’m just drawing it now. It’s totally revolting. I’m sure you’ll love it.

  Eddie Campbell

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  Tags in Revolting, Just

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen’s not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  Eddie Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alan, Monarch, Orders, Remember

• He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we’ve made a hero of the rebel, and it’s more heroic to speak up.

  Eddie Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heroism, Rebel, Heroic, Heroes, Shut Up

• It’s not the last one. Five’s out, six is coming out in November, that’s a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

  Eddie Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Horrifying, Couple, Chapter, Wrapped, Think, Thing

• They’ve got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren’t enough words in it. Put some more in.

  Eddie Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Words, Driven, Script, Person

• I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March ’87. He was out in December ’86.

  Eddie Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Decline, Phil, December, Thirteen, Book

• I thought, well I can do that. I couldn’t be bothered writing a book review, because I’d have to read the book, I haven’t got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

  Eddie Campbell

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  Tags in Bothered, Writing, Dollar, Book

• We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

  Eddie Campbell

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  Tags in Horror, Identify, Hang, Care, Nobody

• All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.

  Eddie Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Total, Fantasy

• I’m thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

  Eddie Campbell

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Morning

• Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, ‘when you’re on the right track, you’ll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you’re on the right track’. Interesting little conundrum. It’s not easy.

  Eddie Campbell

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  Tags in Conundrum, Latest, Track

• I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

  Eddie Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Issues, Sack

• I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they’re given to the assassin.

  Eddie Campbell

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Orders, Assassin, Issued, Kinds

• They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

  Eddie Campbell

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  Tags in Endedmic, Write, Over

• I don’t want to write, I’d rather draw.

  Eddie Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Draw, Write

• You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

  Eddie Campbell

  Tags in Appointment, Spectacle, Filing

• There are a couple of things in there if we’re constraining this discussion to horror here.

  Eddie Campbell

  Tags in Horror, Discussion, Couple, Constraining

• It’s business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don’t want to muck about with it too much.

  Eddie Campbell

  Tags in Selling, Work Out, Sells, Muck

• I’d be interested to read Gull’s paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn’t otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

  Eddie Campbell

  Tags in Interested, Relevance

• By March ’87 we’re down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we’re down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

  Eddie Campbell

  Tags in Twelve, Australia

Eddie Campbell (21)

Birth:	10th August, 1955
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Cartoonist, Novelist

About

Eddie Campbell was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a Scottish cartoonist and novelist. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell, Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus, a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day. His graphic novel The Lovely Horrible Stuff, which playfully investigates our relationship with money, was published in July 2012 by Top Shelf Productions.

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