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From Hell: Being a Melodrama in Sixteen Parts, Vol. 4 (From Hell)»rank: 2457259by: Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
: :Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction. Review:The mad, shaggy genius of the comics world dips deeply into the well of history and pulls up a cup filled with blood in From Hell. Alan Moore did a couple of Ph.D.'s worth of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay, and imaginative invention ... |
Michael Chabon Presents...The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Volume 3 (Amazing Adventures of the Escapist (Graphic Novels))»rank: 183723by: Will Eisner, Eddie Campbell, Chris Offutt, Howard Chaykin, Thomas Yeates
: :This volume of The Escapist collects issues five and six of the popular, Eisner Award winning quarterly series and features the late Will Eisner's return to the Spirit, in a crossover tale with the Escapist! Fans of classic comics will not want to miss what became Eisner's last comics work, completed just two weeks before the death of the legendary comics godfather. Also in this volume is the comics writing debut of award-winning author and Guggenheim fellow Chris Offutt, illustrated by Thomas Yeates. Dan Best and Eddie Campbell contribute a fully painted story from the 1939 World's Fair in Empire City, and 2004 Russ Manning Award winner Eric Wight brings ... |
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The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard»rank: 132760by: Eddie Campbell, Dan Best
: :‘He flies through the air with the greatest of ease – the daring young man on the flying trapeze!’Step right up, Ladies and Gentlemen, for a glorious spectacle of graphic literature beyond your wildest imaginings, in which young Etienne discovers that replacing his uncle as the Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard, world-renowned acrobat and head of a circus troupe, is every bit as difficult as it appears to be. Etienne is swept up in wonder and work even as he struggles to keep up his grandiose façade, while every day his chances for happiness slip further away. For Etienne, taking a stand for his own happiness is as daring as any ... |
American Splendor: Another Day - Volume 1»rank: 271950by: Harvey Pekar, Eddie Campbell Haspiel, Ty Templeton
: :First appearing in 1976, AMERICAN SPLENDOR rose from the streets of Cleveland to change the way comics readers and creators viewed the potential of their medium. The series won an American Book Award and became an Oscar-nominated film. Following the success of his critically praised, top-selling graphic novel THE QUITTER, Harvey Pekar returns with an all-new volume of AMERICAN SPLENDOR, celebrating 30 years of the series that first showed how, as Harvey says, 'ordinary life can be pretty complex stuff.' In this collection, Harvey is joined by an all-star roster of artists including his collaborator on THE QUITTER, Dean Haspiel. Three decades after his self-published debut, Harvey Pekar proves that ... |
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The Fate of the Artist»rank: 551235by: Eddie Campbell
: :In this pseudo-autobiography, the subject of the memoir has vanished without a trace. Through six separate threads, each one typographically and stylistically distinct, a private investigator tries to discover the artists' fate through false trails, family and daily life reenactments, and even an imaginary Sunday comic strip. As the narrative threads intersect and collide in surprising ways, the reader is carried along on a fantastic journey through the life of the artist. A master comics artist, here Eddie Campbell offers a complex, caustic, and surprising meditation on balancing the lonely life of the artist with the demands of everyday life. |
Eddie Campbell's Bacchus, Book Five: Earth, Water, Air and Fire»rank: 588194by: Eddie Campbell
: :Synopsis: Another big story. Bacchus, Joe Theseus and the Kid are seen all together for the first time. Villains include Skylla, the Kabeiroi and Vinnie Bosanova. Introduces the Anchovy. |
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The Black Diamond Detective Agency»rank: 921174by: Eddie Campbell
: :John Hardin is a desperate man. When a train carrying official US currency paper explodes in his town, he's the prodigious Black Diamond Detective Agency's sole suspect. John is innocent, but his wife is missing, his old friends are coming back to haunt him--with guns and explosives--and he's on the run through rural Missouri. THE BLACK DIAMOND DETECTIVE AGENCY is based on the historical journals of Arthur James Quindlen, the agency's founder. Adapted and illustrated with watercolor art by Eddie Campbell, this graphic novel brings a new perspective to that time in America when small farmers were the backbone of the country, graft was rampant, and railroads thundered through western towns. |
Eddie Campbell's Bacchus, Book 1: Immortality Isn't Forever»rank: 971567by: Eddie Campbell
: :Synopsis: Immortality Isn't Forever tells what happened to the Greek gods. Introduces Bacchus, the 4,000 year old Greek God of Wine, Joe Theseus and the Eyeball Kid. |
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Alec: The King Canute Crowd»rank: 1117622by: Eddie Campbell
: :Alec is a brilliant and insightful romp through Eddie Campbell's own life, and it represents one of the best, and first, works in the autobiographical-comics genre. In it, we witness Eddie's progression from 'beer to wine,' or to put it more accurately, his inevitable maturation through time. Whether it's tales of his early pub-crawlin' days, or glimpses into his current private life with 'wifey' and kids, there are 'truths' here that transcend the factual and paint a picture of the way life should be. This collection, numbered at 51 in The Comics Journal's top comics of the century, has been much sought after by collectors of the serious graphic novel ... |
Uncanny X-Men #400 Vol. 1 December 2001»rank: 1426214by: Joe Casey
: :'X-Men Supreme Confessions' |