# The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell & the Fate of the Artist - Hardcover

by **Eddie Campbell** (Author)

**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.

### Author Biography

Eddie Campbell has been making a living from comics since the 1980s. He is best known as the artist of _From Hell_ (with Alan Moore), and made a splash with _Bacchus_, whose monthly comic ran for 60 issues. His semi-autobiographical concoctions however form his favorite strain of his own work. The former material was gathered in _Alec: The Years Have Pants_, all except the full color book _The Fate of the Artist_ and the all-new _The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell._

**Number of Pages:** 192

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.8 IN

**Publication Date:** July 11, 2023

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