How a best-selling wife and husband enchant readers in the anthology ‘Bizarre Romance’

How a best-selling wife and husband enchant readers in the anthology ‘Bizarre Romance’

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.

The Comics Alternative: Derek Royal and Gene Kannenberg Review Bizarre Romance

 The Comics Alternative: Derek Royal and Gene Kannenberg Review Bizarre Romance

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.

Smash Pages Q&A: Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell’s ‘Bizarre Romance’

Smash Pages Q&A: Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell’s ‘Bizarre Romance’

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 - Now available in all good book stores

Bizarre Romance - Now available in all good book stores

It's here!

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!

Tonight! Bizarre Romance Launch Party: Audrey & Eddie at Women and Children First

Tonight! Bizarre Romance Launch Party: Audrey & Eddie at Women and Children First

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

Tomorrow! Bizarre Romance Launch Party: Audrey & Eddie at Women and Children First

Tomorrow! Bizarre Romance Launch Party: Audrey & Eddie at Women and Children First

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

Bizarre Romance: Forbes Review

Bizarre Romance: Forbes Review

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."

Bizarre Romance: Forbidden Planet Review

Bizarre Romance: Forbidden Planet Review

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."

Brideshead Revisited is maddeningly slow – just like real life

Brideshead Revisited is maddeningly slow – just like real life

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”.

Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover

Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover

Audrey has written a forward and has work in Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover, a newly released (July 26, 2016) book which highlights decades of Penguin Classics' book cover designs. This book is perfect for illustrators, graphic designers and anyone who is interested in book design.

Eddie Campbell and Chris Staros in Conversation this Saturday at CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

Eddie Campbell and Chris Staros in Conversation this Saturday at CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

CAKE is proud to announce that Eddie Campbell—the creator of the autobiographical Alec, the mythic Bacchus and, with Alan Moore, the classic graphic novel From Hell—and Top Shelf Productions publisher Chris Staros will be taking part in a conversation about their twenty years of work together.

Dames, documentary and dissent: 200 years of women in comics – gallery

Dames, documentary and dissent: 200 years of women in comics – gallery

The Guardian has posted a gallery of comics created by women as part of it's review of the Comix Creatrix show at the House of Illustration: 

Comix Creatrix: where women artists and stories are the big draw

Comix Creatrix: where women artists and stories are the big draw

Tola Onanunga has recently written a piece for The Guardian about the Comix Creatrix show at the House of Illustration, where Audrey is exhibiting excerpts from The Night Bookmobile. Here is an excerpt: