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Sir William Withey Gull – Eddie Campbell

Artist: Eddie Campbell (All)

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Sir William Withey Gull – Eddie Campbell Comic Art

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Eddie Campbell at GlasCAC '94

Frank Plowright, GlasCAC co-organiser, introduces Alan Moore to the audience at UKCAC '87.

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Title:	Sir William Withey Gull – Eddie Campbell
Artist:	Eddie Campbell (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Convention Sketch
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	245
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	8/10/2022
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I have been to Scotland only once, and that may sound strange as I live on the same small(ish) landmass, were it not that I don’t travel well [cue joke]. “Better to travel in hope than to arrive,” so they say but I am all about the arrival, and it is sad that I will be long dead before Jaunting becomes a reality. To this day I probably would not have gone to Scotland were it not for GlasCAC ’94. I found Glasgow to be a beautiful and exciting city with friendly and warm people but bitingly cold nights in March, especially if the hotel room you have booked into’s heating has broken down, which was just as well as I needed to stay awake and plough through ten issues of a comic I had not previously read so that I could have at least one intelligent question to ask the creator when I stood before them the following day as they signed a couple of the comics. That creator and that comic were not Eddie Campbell and From Hell as only three issues of the Tundra/Kitchen Sink title had come out at that point and I had anyway kept up with its serialisation in Taboo. I had met EC a few years earlier when a few of us had cornered him in a corridor at UKCAC and he drew a very nice Bacchus for me. It was interesting how he seemed to use what seemed like a ball of cotton wool on the end of a stick to execute the spot blacks on Deadface’s cap and coat.

From Hell is notable for being the one major work from Alan Moore’s early US career that does not feature men/women in costumes (not even in cameos) beating up people. After almost thirty years since its publication I don’t think I could say anything new or insightful about From Hell but it was a no-brainer to request William Withey Gull for a convention drawing.

In the course of preparing to upload this drawing I was surprised to learn from Wikipedia that Hayley Campbell, who I often listen to on the “Must Watch” segment on BBC Radio Five, in which she appears with Nihal Arthanayake and Scott Bryan, is Eddie Campbell’s daughter. This goes some way in accounting for her affinity for comics and true crime, although it does not explain her being “allergic” (her use of the word) to period drama. Go figure.

My thanks to Eddie Campbell for this convention drawing, and also, once again to Frank Plowright and Hassan Yusuf, the organisers of the Glasgow Comic Art Convention, without whom I would not have had the opportunity to get it.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/10/2022

Great drawing scratched in! It holds the same power it did when From Hell was in the spotlight.

Simon Ma
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 8/10/2022

Marcus Wai wrote:

Great drawing scratched in! It holds the same power it did when From Hell was in the spotlight.

Thank you, as ever, for your kind words and perceptive comment.

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