5/24/2023 0 Comments From hell eddie campbell![]() Going back and messing with a classic isn’t always a great idea, but sometimes it works out just fine. ![]() Alas, I’m not planning a part 4, but I would recommend you check out Eddie Campbell’s book, The From Hell Companion. The re-edited version was released in 1998 to wide acclaim and is now considered the definitive cut of the movie. Thanks so much for the comment, Mario, and I’m glad you enjoyed it and found enough to drive you back to the book. But he did famously specify a series of modifications to the 1958 studio cut of Touch of Evil, changes that weren’t enacted until after his death. Orson Welles never went back and added color to Citizen Kane. Gull and Netley take a mystics tour of London. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. Light wear to cover and edges, slightly bumped corners, rubbing, corner crease in front cover. Victoria orders Gull to kill the prostitutes. : From Hell: Stated First printing collected edition November 1999, Published by Eddie Campbell Comics. ![]() The Royal family learns of Prince Eddies indescretions. Everything that made From Hell great in black and white is still there, and the new elements add a lot more than they subtract. Walter Sickert Princess Alexandra Queen Victoria William Gull John Netley. ![]() In the end, then, Campbell’s care and craft are succeeding, so far, in threading the needle. Note the eyebrows and hair in the “From Hell, Netley” panels above, or the details of the woman’s face and her slightly smaller hat in the “Not your brother” panels. In some panels the effect is strikingly new and effective, especially in close-ups of characters’ faces where features had been formerly delineated by masses of black lines. ![]()
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