Written by Eddie Campbell

Art & Cover by Eddie Campbell

Eddie Campbell is not himself. But these days, who is? It's a meta-fictional mystery and anarchy as the award-winning artist of From Hell tries to find his own imposter.

Additionally, on the other side: a luxurious new presentation of The Fate of the Artist, Eddie Campbell's classic work of meta-memoir!

SIDE A: The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell, by Eddie Campbell, is a spiritual sequel to the acclaimed graphic novel The Fate of the Artist, in which the author was absent from his own autobiography. Many years later, during an endless Covid lockdown where everyone is wearing masks and needing haircuts, Eddie's wife is certain that she has been replaced by an imposter. She hires a detective, the rugged Royler Boom, to solve the mystery. What follows — interspersed with Campbell's characteristic inventive jokes, dreams, parodic asides, and pandemic oddities — is a thrilling investigation that escalates into a car chase and a violent climax. The author deftly passes it off as yet another piece of autobiography.

SIDE B: The Fate of the Artist: In an autobiography, the author and the subject are the same person… but now both have disappeared. The Fate of the Artist is a complex web of different currents of invention that includes a false detective story in prose, a fictional Sunday comic strip, a fake interview in fumetti style with the author's daughter, intertwined with Campbell's beloved brand of autobiographical comic storytelling. In this luxurious reissue of a pioneering book, the award-winning cartoonist of From Hell and Alec presents a complex, biting, and devilishly clever reflection on the solitary life of the artist and the vibrant life that surrounds him.