Several chapters would appear before anybody except Ripperologists knew it was to be about the Whitechapel murders, or any murders for that matter. But Alan wanted to come at this thing from an unusual angle. They started casting around for an artist and I was nearby as I was one of the contributors to the first issue of the same anthology with a peculiar and disturbing little story titled 'The Pyjama Girl.' I must have seemed an odd choice at the time because horror was not a subject that I had dipped into and “The Pyjama Girl” was almost unclassifiable.

Actually, Alan Moore talked to Steve Bissette about writing a serial about the subject to start in the second issue of Bissette's anthology, Taboo. Can history then be said to have an architecture? The notion is most glorious and most horrible. An invisible curve rising through the centuries. It was thirty years ago this year that we started From Hell, and twenty years ago that we finished it in 1998.

We were lucky enough to speak with Eddie Campbell about the new edition as well as the background on this important and massive undertaking.Īllyn Gibson: How did From Hell originally come about? Did Alan Moore approach you, did you approach Alan, did a publisher put you together on the thought that the two of you would work together well?Įddie Campbell: It was 1988, one hundred years after the infamous Whitechapel murders.

This July, IDW’s Top Shelf Publishing (in association with the UK’s Knockabout) brings Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s landmark series back to comic shops with From Hell Master Edition #1 ( JUL180935), a newly colorized and updated edition of the series, featuring newly added coloring, as well as all of the annotations for the collected issues (two per volume). Over the span of the series’ ten issues, Moore and Campbell not only revealed little-known information about the Ripper, London, and British society of the period, but attempted to perhaps reveal a possible identity of the mysterious and brutally talented murderer. Not so much a celebration of the 100 th anniversary of the “Ripper” murders in London’s Whitechapel district, FROM HELL was better described as a dissection or autopsy of the persons, locations and events that made up the case, as well as the various rumors and legends emerged over the years since Jack the Ripper disappeared. Thirty years ago, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, two of Britain’s most revolutionary and unique voices in comics, joined forces for the epic limited series, FROM HELL.

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