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STATE OF THE ART • FALL 2022

Welcome back to The State of the Art!
The quarterly newsletter of cartoonist Bobby Campbell :)))

This autumnal edition is, once again, coming at you a bit late, but so it goes, is, and will likely persist! A bit of a slow season for my art stuff, but not without a few small steps forward.

Here's what I've been up to since last time:

ITEM! CREATIVE WEIRDOS

I sat down for a lengthy interview with my longtime friend and collaborator TODD PURSE. Featuring probably the definitive telling of my teenaged misadventures at THE DEVIL’S HOUSE!

LISTEN HERE: https://anchor.fm/createmagic/episodes/Creative-Weirdos-Bobby-Campbell-e1nv2op/a-a8hq1nc

ITEM! HIGH HOPES

I got caught up in the hoopla of the Fightin’ Phils World Series run and created this devotional offering to our local chaos deity.

POSTED HERE: https://www.instagram.com/p/CkYaGmQOiTY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

ITEM! BUDDHAFART - EP. 16 "CIRCLING BACK"

The non-linear BUDDHAFART narrative begins to payoff its decades long set up with this self consuming pop art hullabaloo!

READ HERE: https://weirdoverse.com/buddhafart/buddhafart-ep-16-circling-back/

ITEM! BUDDHAFART - EP. 17 "THE HAUNTED INK BOTTLE

READ HERE: https://weirdoverse.com/buddhafart/buddhafart-ep-17-the-haunted-inkbottle/

Some story notes: "This comic really highlights my McLuhanesque idea that the true message of any artwork boils down to advocacy for participating in the art form."

MORE HERE: https://discord.com/channels/865305779812040775/865305780269744150/1030881847032434731

ITEM! OKEY-DOKEY

I’m eyeing up a 2023 release of my first full graphic novel: OKEY-DOKEY - The Dream@wake Sutra. Which weaves together the Agnosis! & Buddhafart comix into a 244 page Tale of the Tribe.

I’ll be looking to put together an editorial team to try to tame this great wild beast. LMK if there’s any early interest :)))

ITEM! ON MAGICK

I chimed in on one of Grant Morrison’s magickal commentaries w/ a bit of my own nonsense.

READ IT HERE: http://www.rawillumination.net/2022/10/grant-morrison-and-bobby-campbell-on.html?spref=tw

There shd be a few interesting announcements coming from the usual suspects shortly, and otherwise I’ll be chipping away at BUDDHAFART. The current episode is a MONSTER, both of the literal and figurative variety :)))

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