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A review by pdz
The Fate of the Artist by Eddie Campbell
3.0
Eddie Campbell's pseudo-autobiography. Full of different types of graphic novel - comic -type stuff: real pictures of his daughter with word bubbles, fake newspaper strips, watercolors with drawings paper clipped to them. Regular typed prose.
The premise is that this autobiography contains no appearance of the author himself. It's kind of like Hemingway's TRUE short stories, I suppose. Half way through it I was pretty enamored with the book, but at the end the momentum of the thing kind of got lost. I think that's not a fault of the story telling or of the drawing, though. I think Campbell was going for that kind of meandering mundane sort of narrative.
It was good. Three stars instead of 4 or 5 simply because the genre and narrative I didn't find that gripping, but I don't think I was the target audience. It's definitely worth reading if you like odd graphic novels.
The premise is that this autobiography contains no appearance of the author himself. It's kind of like Hemingway's TRUE short stories, I suppose. Half way through it I was pretty enamored with the book, but at the end the momentum of the thing kind of got lost. I think that's not a fault of the story telling or of the drawing, though. I think Campbell was going for that kind of meandering mundane sort of narrative.
It was good. Three stars instead of 4 or 5 simply because the genre and narrative I didn't find that gripping, but I don't think I was the target audience. It's definitely worth reading if you like odd graphic novels.