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Publication history

Bacchus first appeared as a character in Deadface (March 1987)¹, a Harrier Comics title which lasted eight issues. In issue five Campbell span the character out of that book and into his own comic, the eponymous Bacchus, a book that lasted two issues, focussing the Deadface comic on Joe Theseus, an updated version of Theseus. When Harrier Comics ceased publication, Campbell managed to sell stories containing the character to numerous publishers; the American publisher Dark Horse, where the character appeared in their anthology title Dark Horse Presents, and who also collected the Deadface comics in the Deadface:Immortality Isn't Forever collection published November, 1990; and two British publishers, Trident Comics, where the stories appeared in their black and white anthology, Trident, and Atomeka, appearing in A1, another black and white anthology. March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Theseus (Θησευς) was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aegeus (or of Poseidon). ... A dark horse candidate is one who is nominated unexpectedly, without previously having been discussed or considered as a likely choice. ... Dark Horse Presents was the original comic book published by Dark Horse Comics and for years was their flagship title. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Trident Comics was a small British comics publishing company based in Leicester, who specialised in black and white comics created by new British talent. ... Poseidon sculpture holding a trident A trident (from Latin tridens, tridentis, from tri, three, dens, tooth, dentes, teeth) is a three pronged staff. ... A1 is a anthology comic published by Atomeka Press. ...

Dark Horse then collected these short stories and serialised them in comic book form as the three issue mini-series Deadface: Doing The Islands With Bacchus (1991), as well as serialising the adventures of another character from the mythos, The Eyeball Kid, grandson of Argus "all eyes", in Cheval Noir, which was later extended and repackaged as a three issue mini-series, The Eyeball Kid in 1992. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hera/Juno, offered the head of Argus by Hermes, places his eyes in the peacocks tail, in a decoration by Jacopo Amigoni (ca 1682 - 1752) There are five figures in Greek mythology named Argus: 1. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After these collections and repackaging, Dark Horse commisioned the new storyline, Deadface: Earth, Water, Air, & Fire, a four issue mini-series published in 1992. Following this in May 1993 came 1,001 Nights of Bacchus, a single issue comic book compilation of various other previously uncollected storylines which Campbell had placed with various publihers but which he had also created within a unified framing sequence. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the month of May. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

The next storylines related to the Bacchus mythos were again serialised, this time in Dark Horse Presents as Hermes vs the Eyeball Kid (1993-1994) and The Picture Of Doreen Grey (1995), the former also collected as a three issue mini-series in 1994-1995. Dark Horse Presents was the original comic book published by Dark Horse Comics and for years was their flagship title. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The final work in the Bacchus mythos to be published by Dark Horse was also the first time Bacchus appeared within a comic published in colour, The Ghost In The Glass, published in 1995. At this point Campbell decided to self publish his own comic, Eddie Campbell's Bacchus, in which he published two new storylines featuring Bacchus, King Bacchus and Banged Up, whilst concurrently revising and reprinting the material already published, and also adding new stories to the 1,001 Nights of Bacchus sequence. The Bacchus character's stories came to an end after the Banged Up storyline, and although Campbell eventually finished the reprinting of the previously published material, he continued publishing Eddie Campbell's Bacchus, updating the name to Eddie Campbell's Bacchus Magazine to reflect the growing number of text pieces he was running, before cancelling the book with issue sixty. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Campbell also published these revised storylines in the graphic novel format in collaboration with the publisher Top Shelf.² Graphic novel (sometimes abbreviated GN) is a term for a kind of book, usually telling an extended story with sequential art ( comics). ... Top Shelf was a recording studio in New York City known as one of the seminal studios for hip hop music artists in the 1980s. ...

Creators

Campbell worked with numerous collaborators on the many series and apppearances Bacchus made, beginning with Phil Elliott, whom Campbell approached to colour the Deadface and Bacchus covers. Phil Elliott (1960-) is a comic book creator who was published in Escape Magazine. ...

Ed Hillyer worked as inker on the last four issues of Deadface, before taking full art chores on The Eyeball Kid series initially serialised in Cheval Noir.

Wes Kublick collaborated with the writing on some of the short stories which made up Deadface: Doing The Islands With Bacchus, whilst Stephen Bissette, Phil Elliott and Pete Mullins collaborated on the art on other stories in this sequence. (Mullins helping to redo Elliott's story which was reworked and retitled.)

Kublick again helped Campbell with the writing on the first two issues of the Deadface: Earth, Water, Air, & Fire series.

1,001 Nights of Bacchus saw collaborations on the writing front with Kublick, Marcus Moore, Daren White and Mark Campbell (comics), with Mark Campbell also writing one story in this sequence solely. Artistic collaborators on this sequence were Steve Stamatiadis, Dylan Horrocks and Pete Mullins, who all collaborated on one story each. Dylan Horrocks was born in 1966, in Auckland, New Zealand. ...

Hermes vs. The Eyeball Kid is credited as being written by Eddie Campbell and Wes Kublick and drawn by Eddie Campbell, Pete Mullins and April Post, with Mullins again assisting with the art on the latter two thirds of The Picture Of Doreen Grey, whilst The Ghost In The Glass featured art by Teddie Kristiansen.

Mullins again assisted on King Bacchus, with another credit for April Post on part 9, whilst the final serial, Banged Up saw Marcus Moore again assist with some of the stories and Mullins assist on almost all of the art with a little help from Steve Francis (comics) on part 8. ³

Other notable characters

Notable characters within Eddie Campbell's Bacchus mythos include: Alec: The King Canute Crowd by Eddie Campbell Eddie Campbell is a Scottish-born comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. ...

• Joe Theseus
• The Eyeball Kid
• Hermes
• Simpson
• Big Ginny
• Collage
• The Stygian Leech
• The Telchines

Collected editions

• Bacchus Vol 1: Immortality Isn't Forever (1995) ISBN: 0958578362
• Bacchus Vol 2: The Gods of Business (with Ed Hillyer, 1996) ISBN: 0958578311
• Bacchus Vol 3: Doing the Islands with Bacchus (1997) ISBN: 0958578370
• Bacchus Vol 4: The Eyeball Kid - One Man Show (with Ed Hillyer, 1998) ISBN: 095857832X
• Bacchus Vol 5: Earth, Water, Air, Fire (with Wes Kublick, 1998) ISBN: 0958578303
• Bacchus Vol 6: The 1001 Nights of Bacchus (2000)
• Bacchus Vol 7/8: The Eyeball Kid Double Bill (with Wes Kublick, 2002)
• Bacchus Vol 9: King Bacchus (with Pete Mullins, 1996) ISBN: 0958578389
• Bacchus Vol 10: Banged Up (with Pete Mullins and Marcus Moore, 2001)

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References

• Note 1: An Interview with Eddie Campbell by David Carroll accessed August 22, 2005
• Note 2: Internet Archive February 1 2003 version of Bacchus | Eddie Campbell Comics accessed August 22, 2005
• Note 3: Eddie Campbell's BACCHUS - The Web Comicography accessed August 23, 2005

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External links

• Eddie Campbell's Bacchus - A fan site
• Artbomb Eddie Campbell page - Links to reviews of first five Bacchus volumes