Category Adult Programs Location Fletcher Room Event Date Sat, Nov 16 2024, 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist and writer now living in Chicago. Probably best known as the illustrator of From Hell (with writer Alan Moore), Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, Bacchus, a wry adventure series about some of the Greek gods surviving to the present day, as well as nonfiction work including The Goat Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics, The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell/The Fate of the Artist and his study of money, The Lovely Horrible Stuff. In his most recent book (published August 2024), Kate Carew: America's First Great Woman Cartoonist, Campbell looks at the work and life of this pioneering early 20th century newspaper cartoonist.
