Eddie Campbell Quotations

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.