![]() ![]() We are in a salon adjoining the ballroom in the Hotel de Ville. I could make better headway, make more money by writing my own, because it didn’t take as long.”įrom Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell ( Purchase)Ĭampbell goes on about Moore’s scripts, “You’ve got to set time aside, you’ve got to read it, you’ve got to make marginal notes so that you could find your way back around inside it.” I could write and draw a page in the same time it took me to draw a page of From Hell. ![]() And it’s true.” Campbell explains, “I was writing and drawing Bacchus at the same time, it worked out more economical. “I used to always say that I could write my own script in half the time it takes to read Alan’s. He writes, he gives you more information than you could possibly get into one little picture.” In one celebrated example, Moore took seven pages just to describe one panel. A man takes one look and exclaims, “In America we don’t do anything to cognac except drink it.” I ask Eddie about working with Alan Moore, famous for the extraordinary detail he packs into his scripts, and he replies: “Alan writes far too much. The bartender has made something interesting out of it, making it glitter. The cognac is from Cognac, which is a few dozen miles to the west. The medieval town is in the grip of an annual comic book festival fever. We are in Angouleme, the south of France. ![]()
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