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Eddie Campbell on “pulling faces”
The comic artist’s most important and undervalued skill? The ability to make faces in the mirror.
Must remember to mount a mirror in my new office…
Eddie Campbell on Marginalia
I’ve talked about the uses of the margins in medieval manuscripts in “The History of Humor.” Michael Camille, the writer on medieval art had died at the young age of 49 a few years ago. A very insightful academic. But he had an idea in explaining marginalia because why are these grotesques and ugly things and obscenities going on in the margins of these holy books? What’s going on there, what’s the point?
He had an idea that the page is the universe and at the center is everything that’s good and holy. Evil is on the fringes, on the outside. That’s why you have the gargoyles on medieval churches. They’re on the outside. The worst thing you could be in those days was outside the church. To be excluded or pushed to the fringes. The page as a representation as everything.
I decided to try and use that so that in my book life is in the middle and the margin is outside. It’s a symbolic commentary on life or footnotes or the author can be in the margin. Characters once they’ve died can have a life in the margin. They can pop up there to make commentary or get messages to the living. By the time this book has finished all the characters have ended up in the margins. There’s nothing going on in the center. Everyone’s in the margins talking amongst themselves. That was the idea behind it.
Al Capp panel
“When an interviewer asks me why he should read graphic novels, my standard response now is to say ‘good lord, not you, you’re far too stuffy.’ - Eddie Campbell
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