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Eddie Campbell's Alec series of quasi-autobiographical comics has been called "one of the most important graphic novels of the 20th century" While his fictionalized comic memoirs Alec and later, Fate of the Artist, have become his trademark style where he interrogates his own life through an avatar, he is best known as the artist behind From Hell with legendary comic scribe Alan Moore. Set during the Whitechapel murders of the Victorian era, the story speculates on the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper and was later adapted into a lesser movie of the same name starring Johnny Depp. Not only did Eddie reveal exclusively on our podcast that he's currently colouring From Hell for a serialized re-release from IDW, but he has recently joined forces with his equally talented wife, best-selling author of The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger to release a new graphic story collection called Bizarre Romance. The collection features 13 of Audrey's short stories (some previously published) illustrated and re