The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell & The Fate of the Artist

<b>Eddie Campbell is not himself. But these days, who is? It’s meta-fictional mystery and mischief as the award-winning artist of <i>From Hell</i> sets out to find his own imposter. <br>Plus, on the flipside: a deluxe new presentation of <i>The Fate of the Artist</i>, Eddie Campbell’s classic work of graphic meta-memoir!</b><br><br>SIDE A: <i>The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell</i>, by Eddie Campbell, is a spiritual sequel to his acclaimed graphic novel <i>The Fate of the Artist</i>, in which the author was missing from his own autobiography. Many years later, during an endless Covid lockdown in which everybody wears a mask and needs a haircut, Eddie’s wife is certain that he has been supplanted by an imposter. She hires a detective, the square-jawed Royler Boom, to solve the mystery. What follows — interspersed with Campbell’s trademark wry anecdotes, dreams, parodic pastiches, and pandemic peccadilloes — is a thrilling investigation that builds to a car chase and a violent conclusion. The author cunningly passes this off as another piece of autobiography.<br><br>SIDE B: <i>The Fate of the Artist</i>: In an autobiography, the author and the subject are the same person… but now they’ve both gone missing. <i>The Fate of the Artist</i> is a complex weaving of different strains of invention including a mock prose detective story, an imaginary Sunday comic strip, a mock fumetti-style interview with the author's daughter, intertwined with Campbell's beloved brand of autobiographical comic storytelling. In this deluxe reissue of a groundbreaking book, the award-winning cartoonist of <i>From Hell</i> and <i>Alec</i> presents a complex, caustic, and fiendishly clever meditation on the lonely life of the artist and the busy life that swirls around him.