Jack acts as "midwife to the 20th century", delivering the next 100 years of Holocaust, serial killing and media rapaciousness as he extracts his last victim's heart.

The black and white was so intrinsic to the book that Campbell refused initial offers to color it, believing it impossible due to the difficulty of putting color inks on top of originally black and white artwork. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.

My first experience with From Hell was the 2001 Hollywood adaptation by the Hughes Brothers and starring Johnny Depp as Abberline, Sir Ian Holm as Dr. While the artwork was impressive, too often it felt muddled and messy combined with the excruciating levels of gore and Moore’s legendarily dense layers of text. It has links to the Lettrist and Situationist Internationals, revolutionary groups influenced by Marxist and anarchist theory, and the attitudes and methods of Dadaists and Surrealists. However, 30 years later, Campbell finally accepted the challenge and chose to do all his coloring digitally with all of its palates and options previously unimaginable. In any case critics and readers barely noticed, they were too busy being lured in and mesmerized by its morbid tale of Victorian London at the peak of empire; of the prostitute victims and their hard scrabble lives in the Whitechapel slums; of Frederick Abberline, the troubled Scotland Yard detective’s hopeless pursuit of justice; and of course the murderer at the heart of it all, Jack the Ripper.

Printing anything in color was difficult, laborious and expensive, especially in cash-strapped 1980s Britain. Of course, the abuse of medical knowledge, power and privilege isn’t confined to the actions of caricatured physicians of the past. In this remarkable new edition, the award-winning bestseller FROM HELL now features astonishing colours by Eddie Campbell! It was only years later when I first glanced into the graphic novel, I realized what a tremendous disservice the movie was to its source material. Currently Campbell lives between Chicago with his new partner novelist, Audrey Niffenegger and London where his adult daughter from his previous marriage, Hayley Campbell also lives and works as a journalist.

It’s also harder to gloss over the Ripper’s victims namely Mary Kelly and their outfits conveying bright pretty yet faded colors and the slight rose tint of their bodies which is also their trade and often means of survival (though at times, their skin appears faded and drained when worn down by the hardness of their lives.