New Releases by Eddie Campbell

A dark comedy about the sex life of a celibate middle-aged man, ''the playwright'', who rather enjoys a quiet moment in the local park. It is a good place to mentally sort his ideas - and is often frequented by pretty young ladies. He has always derived a perverse sense of relief upon receiving news that an old friend has developed prostate cancer - because, statistically, it reduces his own chances of being similarly afflicted. And, to be honest, his prostate needs all the support he can muster.

From Alan Moore''s interest in magic he created two performance pieces The Birth Caul and Snakes and Ladders, which Eddie Campbell has adapted as graphic works. This book also contains the acclaimed interview with Alan Moore by Eddie Campbell from Egomania, and features a never-before-seen sketchbook of the working drawings for Snakes and Ladders

This volume of The Escapist collects issues five and six of the popular, Eisner Award winning quarterly series and features the late Will Eisner''s return to the Spirit, in a crossover tale with the Escapist! Fans of classic comics will not want to miss what became Eisner''s last comics work, completed just two weeks before the death of the legendary comics godfather. Also in this volume is the comics writing debut of award-winning author and Guggenheim fellow Chris Offutt, illustrated by Thomas Yeates. Dan Best and Eddie Campbell contribute a fully painted story from the 1939 World''s Fair in Empire City, and 2004 Russ Manning Award winner Eric Wight brings a polemic story from writer Jason Hall to life. Among the other notable contributors are Howard Chaykin, Paul Grist, Shawn Martinbrough, David Hahn, Roy Thomas, Matt Wagner and indie stalwarts Jeffrey Brown and Jason!

''He flies through the air with the greatest of ease - the daring young man on the flying trapeze!'' Step right up, Ladies and Gentlemen, for a glorious spectacle of graphic literature beyond your wildest imaginings, in which young Etienne discovers that replacing his uncle as the Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard, world-renowned acrobat and head of a circus troupe, is every bit as difficult as it appears to be. Etienne is swept up in wonder and work even as he struggles to keep up his grandiose faYade, while every day his chances for happiness slip further away. For Etienne, taking a stand for his own happiness is as daring as any trick the Amazing Remarkable Leotard could perform. Eddie Campbell and Dan Best bring to life the historical story of the daring young man on the flying trapeze in a tale filled with wonders and marvels.

A graphic novel about a corn farmer named John Hardin who is suspected by the Black Diamond Detective Agency for blowing up a train and finds himself running from the law.

The Emergency Room of Gotham General Hospital is overwhelming for a rookie doctor on the best of days, but the hospital scene becomes pure pandemonium when the Joker is admitted. But the Joker knows a secret that threatens all of Gotham, and Batman must keep him alive at all costs to determine just what it is!

In graphic novel format, offers a fictional investigation into a series of murders in 1888 London carried out by the infamous Jack the Ripper.

The author uses a mixture of comic and prose to explore his own disappearance while shedding light on his state of mind as an artist and revealing his shortcomings as a husband.

Collection of semi-autobiographical comic book stories.

Warped Notions'' part 4, the finale of Eddie Campbell''s HELLBLAZER run! John Constantine leads the ghost of Sir Francis Dashwood to a remote island in the South Pacific, where Constantine hopes to stop the decay of reality once and for all!

Constantine, the ghost of Sir Francis Dashwood and the cat-demon Murnarr encounter an aboriginal shaman and the true cause of reality''s decay. ''Warped Notions'' part 3.