Eddie Campbell was born on 10 August 1955 and is a British comics artist and cartoonist.
16 Facts About Eddie Campbell
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Eddie Campbell has won almost every award the comics industry bestows, including the Eisner Award, the Harvey Award, the Ignatz Award, the Eagle Award, and the UK Comic Art Award.
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Eddie Campbell made his earliest attempts at autobiographical comics in the late 1970s with In the Days of the Ace Rock 'n' Roll Club.
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Eddie Campbell self-published these early comics in the amateur press association BAPA and then as short-run photocopied pamphlets in London in the early 1980s, selling them at conventions and comic marts and via Paul Gravett's "Fast Fiction" market stall.
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When Gravett founded Escape Magazine, Eddie Campbell was one of the artists featured.
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Graffiti Kitchen, which Eddie Campbell considers the highpoint of the series, was published by Tundra in 1993, and The Dance of Lifey Death followed in 1994 from Dark Horse Comics.
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Eddie Campbell then followed up these works by self-publishing two larger works.
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In 2007 Eddie Campbell spent some time serving as a court illustrator in Australia.
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Eddie Campbell joined in, creating the series Deadface for Harrier Comics, telling the story of Bacchus, god of wine and revelry, and the few other Greek mythological figures who have survived to the present day.
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Eddie Campbell then began publishing short Bacchus stories in a number of anthologies, such as the British anthology Trident published by Trident Comics, and the American anthology Dark Horse Presents published by Dark Horse Comics.
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Eddie Campbell continued to produce Bacchus stories for Dark Horse until 1995 as a series of miniseries.
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Eddie Campbell went on to collect both Alec and Bacchus as a series of graphic novels.
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Eddie Campbell published the collected edition of From Hell, and comics adaptations of two of Alan Moore's performance art pieces, The Birth Caul and Snakes and Ladders.
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Eddie Campbell has evolved his art style, using colour, collage and photo-shop to create art which The Guardian describe as having " a surreal, scruffy elegance".
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Eddie Campbell moved to Brisbane, Australia in 1986 with his then-wife Annie where he lived for thirty years.
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Eddie Campbell's adult daughter Hayley Eddie Campbell is a writer and radio journalist.