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An interesting multi-stylistic graphic novel. The Honeybee comics were very enjoyable.
Eddie Campbell offers an odd take on the concept of biography. Writing as if he has disappeared, Campbell uses collage, typography, photography, doodles, and newspaper strips to catalog the history of himself as seen through others. Each chapter takes a fictional detective deeper into the mindset of a visual and linguistic artist. A photo interview with Hayley Campbell about her father's viewpoints shows how similar and different family can be. Discussions with the wife in cartoon style reveal h...
Cool and curious, this "autobiography" is more akin to an art installation by the late Joseph Beuys, e.g., or some of Beck's earlier compositions than it is to my ideas about story or even graphic novel. This is a book in pieces -- a bunch of interpolated yet recurring texts, comic strips, photo panels, watercolor scenes, sketches, interviews -- that have something to do with their maker, the artist Eddie Campbell.It's a really cerebral, weird, and challenging experience. Read it, yeah, but read...
Although frequently opaque and sometimes a bit too clever for me, I found the graphic experimentation and spirit of 'The Fate of the Artist' to be refreshing and inspiring. Probably not the ideal work to dive into Campbell, but nonetheless I'm grateful to have stumbled into his world. Now have a number of follow-ups on my to-read shelf.
An honest eccentric rouse, perhaps an experiment by the author. It works for me, and on the whole, I enjoyed it for what it is. Could have rounded off better in the last 5th, but makes up for it in imagination and a good blend of approaches.Woody Hayday
The world’s greatest graphic novelist is a Queenslander – via his native Scotland – and this book in which he investigates his own mysterious disappearance is a masterpiece about art, creation, and the dubious business of story-robbing one’s own life and loved ones in the name of storytelling.
1 point for being murdered and body filed in poetry section in Library1 point for uselessness of work
Funny stuff. Definitely not the usual graphic novel.
Wow - what a strange and beautiful book. I have the feeling that I'd enjoy it a lot more if I'd been a voracious reader of graphic novels all along (there seem to be in-jokes) - but the language and writing is phenomenal and thought provoking and the layout is close to brilliant. I will probably be done with this one by the end of the weekend so more (including rating) tk.Just finished this. I rated it 4 because 5 would put it up there with On the Road, but easily it's one of the best graphic no...
Has Eddie Campbell lost his shit? Eddie Campbell has always been a sentimental favorite for me. I straight up ripped off his work for an AP Comp assignment in high school. He, along with Bukowski and Li Po, made me romanticize drinking before I ever drink, drank, drunk.This book is a formal experiment, an attack on Scott McCloud's definition of comics, the detritus of an attempted History of Humor that he never completed, a prose/photo/comic assemblage, and, clearly, a total mess. But still char...
You can examine your life a bit too closely, and you can make the mistake of thinking other people will care about what you find.
Nobody should be allowed to do autobiographical comics except Campbell. He's set the bar too high, and frankly, everybody else is just kind of embarrassing themselves when compared to his books.Fate is the "true" tale of artist Eddie Campbell's last days - he's gone missing and his wife (in mostly prose sections) and daughter (in most photographic sections) must answer questions about his character, associations, interests and what he was doing when he disappeared. It's totally hilarious.Throw i...
This one was just not for me.
