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Authors Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell, whose works have both been inspired by visual representation, some even converted to films, will be discussing their newest anthology Bizarre Romance with a fellow member of the writing and editing community, Donna Seaman. This collection both celebrates and satirizes the many types of love we experience as humans. The various relationships explored by the variety of authors will be an inspiration for conversation.

Eddie was recently interviewed by Entertainment Weekly about the soon-to-be-released Master Edition of FROM HELL.

“I got a phone call from the publisher, and they wanted to fluff out From Hell and do something new with it, possibly put it out again as a serial,” Campbell tells EW. “I thought that would only work if you do something drastically new, like colorize it. At first they were like, ‘That’s not gonna work, is it? It’s always been a black-and-white book.’ I said I’d show them a couple pages, and after that they said, ‘How quickly can we get this book on the shelves?’ That was in January, and we ended up with a September release date. I’m up to chapter 5 now. I’ve been working on this solidly for the last five months, and I’m quite excited about it.”

The interview includes a few exclusive images from the Master Edition. Click here to read the rest of the interview.

Jack is back — and this time, the blood is red.

For decades, the award-winning graphic novel FROM HELL has welcomed readers into the grandeur and grime of London in the late 1800s. The New York Times-bestselling opus is an achievement the New Yorker dubs “remarkable” and Entertainment Weekly calls “an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they happened in, and the birth of the 20th century.”

Will Pfeifer devotes ten minutes of love for The Goat Getters on the Pictures Within Pictures podcast. You can listen in by clicking here. (Whatcha Reading'? 6)

Marcia Froelke Coburn recently interviewed Eddie and Audrey for Chicago Magazine. You can read the interview by clicking here.

Michael Taube has written a review of The Goat Getters for the Washington Times. He writes: 

“The Goat Getters” is a scintillating examination of how some legendary cartoonists helped change newspapers and its readership. They marched to the beat of their own drummer, and challenged societal norms and preconceived notions to make America a better country. That’s surely what they would have advised Mr. Trump to do with Jack Johnson’s long-awaited pardon."

The rest of the article can be read by clicking here.

Wherein I talk about Bizarre Romance, The goat Getters, and the upcoming revised FROM HELL.

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I haven't checked this podcast to find out if I'm an idiot, but I've been one for too long so the die is cast. I do remember laughing a lot, as always happens when I talk to Robin McConnell.

"What a marvelous weekend I had catching up with Seth, Chester Brown, Jaime Hernandez, James Kochalka, Karl Stevens and more of my favorite artists. here are me and Kochalka signing at the Top Shelf booth. We both like to stand up for signing."

Lucy Scholes interviewed Eddie and Audrey for the Times Literary Supplement a few weeks ago.

"'It amused us to make a twisted, twenty-first century romance comic while pursuing our own romance from distant corners of the globe,' Niffenegger explains in the introduction."

If you are a subscriber, you can read the article here. 

Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman have some very nice things to say about Eddie Campbell in a recent interview by David Barnett for the Guardian. 

Eddie Campbell is a genius. But don’t take my word for it, take Alan Moore’s. “Eddie’s is a genuine one-off talent, utterly idiosyncratic and personal,” he says. Or perhaps Neil Gaiman’s: “The man’s a genius, there’s an end to it.”

Read the full article by clicking here.