Van Jensen talks to the mighty Mr. Campbell about his latest upcoming book for First Second, The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard:
PWCW: How did you come upon the circus and a trapeze artist specifically as the focus for this book?
EC: After I wanted to be a cowboy, which my mom talked me out of because we lived in a big industrial city and she thought it was an unreasonable ambition, I decided I wanted to run away and work in a circus, so this is me playing out another one of my great all-time fantasies, because I never really got to do that either. After leaving school I went and worked in an office for nine years, interviewing people for welfare benefits. I used to stare out the window at the hills far away and wonder what would have happened if I’d had the courage and just gone and done it. After making too many overpayments I was asked to leave that job. I walked out the door and came back in on the other side of the counter. It was then that I finally found my true calling in life and decided to become an artist.
