Authors Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell, whose works have both been inspired by visual representation, some even converted to films, will be discussing their newest anthology Bizarre Romance with a fellow member of the writing and editing community, Donna Seaman. This collection both celebrates and satirizes the many types of love we experience as humans. The various relationships explored by the variety of authors will be an inspiration for conversation.
Sarah Hughes has interviewed Audrey and Eddie for i News (inews.co.uk.)
Collaboration can be a tricky business, rife with the possibilities for misunderstandings or battles over two different visions. Throw a new marriage into the mix and surely the potential for argument and falling out is high? “Not at all,” says Audrey Niffenegger, best-selling author of The Time Traveller’s Wife. She has spent the past year working with her new husband, Scottish comics artist and cartoonist, Eddie Campbell on Bizarre Romance, a captivating set of short stories written by her and drawn by him. “In fact, because we haven’t been married long we still had that newly-wed energy, that sense of being besotted with each other, which really helped.”
Read the rest of the interview by clicking here.
Michael Cavna recently interviewed Eddie and Audrey for the Washington Post.
When it comes to using creative frameworks, the “Bizarre Romance” authors also thought in terms of music — specifically, the structure of an album.
The anthology’s 13 chapters, which are each very distinct in their visual styles, all “concern themes that I’ve been interested in all my life: love and loss, the ordinary and the fantastic, the relationship between art and daily life,” Niffenegger says. “When we collected them and began to think about how to shape them into a book, we started talking about albums and mix tapes, and how it would be great if each story had art that exactly suited it, like the instrumentation of a song, instead of trying to come up with one style that straitjacketed them all into conformity.
Derek Royal and Gene Kannenberg have comprehensively reviewed Bizarre Romance for The Comics Alternative Podcast. These "Two Guys with PhDs Talking about Comics!™" gave a totally satisfying close reading of the whole book, about forty minutes' worth. You can listen to the podcast by clicking here. The review begins at 11:43 into the podcast.
Alex Dueben recently interviewed Eddie and Audrey for Smash Pages: The Comics Super Blog.
"It should be no surprise to anyone who knows their work that it is a broad-ranging collection of styles and approaches. These stories are sweet and funny, touching and strange, inventive and a lot of fun."
Click here to read the interview.
Just a reminder that the launch party for Bizarre Romance is tonight, March 20th from 7:00 to 8:00 pm, at Women and Children Bookstore in Andersonville (Chicago). Make sure to register here if you plan to attend as space is limited.
Women & Children First
5233 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
Just a reminder that the launch party for Bizarre Romance is tomorrow, March 20th from 7:00 to 8:00 pm, at Women and Children Bookstore in Andersonville (Chicago). Make sure to register here if you plan to attend as space is limited.
Women & Children First
5233 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
Joe Gordon has just published a review on the Forbidden Planet blog. From his review:
"The stories rotate around love and loss and grief and joy, but there is a quite delightful playfulness running through them all, a deft lightness of touch, such that even the stories that have sadness in them are never maudlin or overly sentimental but leave you with a warm feeling."
Bizarre Romance, the new collaboration between Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell is reviewed by Publisher's Weekly. You can read the full review here.
