Eddie Campbell

It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.