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Artists Book House founder and former Board President, Audrey Niffenegger, will be exhibiting new work at Zolla Lieberman gallery from September 5 - October 11, 2025 with an opening reception on Friday, September 5th from 4 to 7pm.
We’re delighted to have been featured on WGN Spotlight Chicago’s segment on April 8. Audrey was invited on to speak about Artists Book House and her upcoming book, The Other Husband. Check out the segment above or at the link HERE!
This is a workshop for fiction writers, or anyone interested in creating characters for comics, graphic novels, creative non-fiction, etcetera. Students will concentrate on techniques for building groups of characters with complex interior lives and interesting relationships.
Back in February, the Radio Times chatted with Steven Moffat about his adaptation of Time Traveler’s Wife for HBO. Many will know Moffat for his work on the long-running British television series Doctor Who, Sherlock and the romantic comedy series, Coupling. The interview can be read here at the Radio Times website.
In 2021, Arion Press published Morte d’Smudgie, an original short story by Margaret Atwood, with illustrations by Audrey Niffenegger.
Join us for the virtual book launch celebrating Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer! For this Zoom event, Riva will be in conversation with Audrey Niffenegger.
In 2019, just before the world descended into Covid-19 lockdown, Audrey and a band of local artists, writers, and supporters of the book arts founded Artists Book House, a nonprofit community arts organization focused on the literary and book arts.
Audrey was recently interviewed by Gil Roth for the Virtual Memories blog. Here’s a description from the site:
In NYC for the Brooklyn Book Festival, author/artist Audrey Niffeneggerjoins the show to talk about her work and life. We get into her new collaboration, Bizarre Romance(Abrams), being Parent Trapped (maybe) by Hayley Campbell, her interest in taxidermy and what it does and doesn’t signify, how she shifts from prose to comics and vice versa, the allure of Chicago, getting consent to convert people into characters, writing the sequel to her best-known work, The Time Traveler’s Wife, how that book’s success changed her approach to art, how art school taught her to see, getting turned on to print-making as a teen by a book on Aubrey Beardsley, the books she’s still hoping to get around to reading, and plenty more!
Click here to visit Virtual Memories and listen to this episode.
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.
To celebrate the release of Bizarre Romance, Audrey and Eddie collaborated with Ken Gerleve (animation) and Alex Kliner (music) to produce a series of short animations based on some of the characters from Bizarre Romance. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed making them.
To celebrate the release of Bizarre Romance, Audrey and Eddie collaborated with Ken Gerleve (animation) and Alex Kliner (music) to produce a series of short animations based on some of the characters from Bizarre Romance. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed making them.
To celebrate the release of Bizarre Romance, Audrey and Eddie collaborated with Ken Gerleve (animation) and Alex Kliner (music) to produce a series of short animations based on some of the characters from Bizarre Romance. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed making them.
To celebrate the release of Bizarre Romance, Audrey and Eddie collaborated with Ken Gerleve (animation) and Alex Kliner (music) to produce a series of short animations based on some of the characters from Bizarre Romance. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed making them.
To celebrate the release of Bizarre Romance, Audrey and Eddie collaborated with Ken Gerleve (animation) and Alex Kliner (music) to produce a series of short animations based on some of the characters from Bizarre Romance. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed making them.
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.
To celebrate the release of Bizarre Romance, Audrey and Eddie collaborated with Ken Gerleve (animation) and Alex Kliner (music) to produce a series of short animations based on some of the characters from Bizarre Romance. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed making them.
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.
Bizarre Romance, the recent collaboration between Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell, is now available in the US. Below are a few pages from the book. Stay tuned for surprises later this week!
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
Robert Salkowitz interviewed Audrey and Eddie last week for Forbes magazine.
"What do you get when you combine best-selling author Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife) and legendary independent comics maker Eddie Campbell (From Hell, Alec)? Bizarre Romance! And in more ways than one."
Stephen L. Holland of Page 45 has written a rather nice and thorough review of Bizarre Romance.
In honor of Women in Comics Month this March, PREVIEWSworld talks with writer and artist, Audrey Niffenegger.
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 recent collaboration between Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell, will be available in the US tomorrow. Below are a few pages from the book.
Bizarre Romance, the new collaboration between Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell is reviewed by Publisher's Weekly. You can read the full review here.
Brideshead Revisited first aired in America in the winter of 1982. I was in art school then, and living with my parents because we couldn’t afford the extra expense of me living on my own. I had never travelled outside my country; I grew up in Chicago and all my ideas about the rest of the world came from reading books. The only thing I had read by Evelyn Waugh was a short story, “The Man Who Liked Dickens”.
John Williams has written a review of Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover for the New York TImes. Here is an excerpt:
