BobbyCampbell

I had a really awesome time at the Red State premier at Radio City Music Hall! So much so that I drew this when I got home. Wd love to go to an event like that again!

Hi Dan!

Amongst everything else I really enjoy your story structure ideas, and am curious if you've ever read Joseph Campbell's "Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake"?

(If not, it's the first iteration of JC extracting the monomyth idea from James Joyce's FW, a modernist version of the story circle, eternal return, etc.)

Similarly, do you like James Joyce at all?

Joyce influenced Campbell as much as Campbell seems to have influenced you, so in a sort of transitive property telephone game, you seem to me like one of the most Joycean writers around. (Intended as high praise!)

Sincere thanks for all the great work!

Also, here's a drawing of you on the moon: http://i.imgur.com/7GUCwFo.jpg

bc

Also, for anyone w/ a moment to spare, here’s my real deal story of GM magic:

I met Grant Morrison briefly at a signing in Philadelphia in 2002. I was 21, hungover, sleep deprived, and rather well in tune w/ the dune (stoned). I'd brought a small collection of my comix to show him, which I clutched nervously.

I was trying to think of ways to communicate quickly and clearly that I was hip to the real shit. My skepticism about the explanatory power of a few brief words, esp. in matters zen, led me to briefly entertain the harebrained notion that a hearty THUMBS UP might somehow be the ticket. As the line shuffled forward I decided the more practical approach wd be to ask him if he read Robert Anton Wilson.

Along my way to the front of the line my shyness and introversion also changed my mind about showing him my comix. Which suddenly seemed like a stupid and embarrassing thing to do.

Frank Quietly was at the signing too, parked right next to GM. I got to him first and gave him a copy of Earth 2 to sign. While exchanging pleasantries w/ FQ I heard someone say, "Did you make these?"

I look over and Grant Morrison is happily flipping through the comix I had decided not to give him!

Mind you, I was in a few altered states at the time, but my genuine experience was/is of having no clue when/how he got those comix.

He was indeed a reader of Robert Anton Wilson, brief encouragement for my work was offered, and off I went.

Though just as I was stumbling away I heard a booming voice call "Oi!"

I turn around and GM is beaming a huge grin and pointing at the hand lettered title block on one of the comic covers. (Which read: "SUBURBAN LEGEND COMIX: Sort of like Alan Moore before he stopped selling drugs and read all them books) Thence he gave me a hearty THUMBS UP

Fair question! The picture is based off a description he gave on his podcast about kicking back on the moon w/ a cooler full of beer

I just watched HAPPY! and it was spectacular!

That, um, mind blowing opening scene really set the tone for a GM TV show!

Seriously great work and I’m beyond thrilled for the world to finally hear from you in this way :)))

Thanks so much for Pop Magic way back in the day. I got to befriend and work w/ RAW bc of it. And other suchlike impossibly wonderful things!

https://i.imgur.com/LZFFVPa.jpg

Here's my silly question, if you might:

Do you think of all your bald headed characters, King Mob, Prof X, Lex Luthor, etc, as being at least loosely interconnected?