Eddie Campbell is not himself. But these days who is? It’s meta-fictional mystery and mischief as the award-winning artist of From Hell sets out to find his own imposter.
Plus on the flipside: a deluxe new presentation of The Fate of the Artist Eddie Campbell’s classic work of graphic meta-memoir!

SIDE A: The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell by Eddie Campbell is a spiritual sequel to his acclaimed graphic novel The Fate of the Artist 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.

SIDE B: The Fate of the Artist: In an autobiography the author and the subject are the same person… but now they’ve both gone missing. The Fate of the Artist 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 From Hell and Alec presents a complex caustic and fiendishly clever meditation on the lonely life of the artist and the busy life that swirls around him.