Bacchus, Vol. 7/8: The Eyeball Kid Double Bill

Bacchus #7, 8

by Eddie Campbell

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Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

148 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2002

About the author

Eddie Campbell is a British comics artist and cartoonist whose work has shaped the evolution of modern graphic storytelling. He is widely known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell, his long collaboration with Alan Moore that reimagines the Jack the Ripper case through an ambitious and meticulously researched narrative. Campbell is also the creator of the long-running semi-autobiographical Alec series, later collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and the satirical adventure cycle Bacchus, which follows a handful of Greek gods who have wandered into the contemporary world. His scratchy pen-and-ink technique draws on impressionist influences and early masters of expressive line art, while his writing blends humor, candor, and literary ambition in a manner that critics have compared to Jack Kerouac and Henry Miller.
Campbell began developing autobiographical comics in the late 1970s before expanding the Alec stories throughout the following decades, publishing early instalments through small press networks in London and later with major independent publishers. After moving to Australia in the mid-1980s, he continued to produce both Alec and Bacchus stories while contributing to a range of international anthologies. His partnership with Moore on From Hell, initially serialised in the anthology Taboo, became one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of its era and further cemented his reputation for grounded, character-driven illustration.
Across a varied career Campbell has worked as a creator, editor, publisher, and occasional court illustrator. His contributions to comics have earned him numerous industry awards, including the Eisner Award, the Harvey Award, the Ignatz Award, the Eagle Award, and the UK Comic Art Award. He continues to produce new work while maintaining a strong presence in both literary and comics circles.

Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 4 out of 5]

What does a Sicilian Mafia Don of yester-year, Joe Theseus and Zeus have in common?

Vacationing in (engineering?) the patterns of fate of course! With Zeus out of the fray who will reign the cosmic geometries of certainty?

Who will win the fateful showdown between the angel of death (Hermes) and The Eyeball Kid? Ask the Golden-Fleeced Sheep with the up-to-the-second information-receiving horns!

How about drizzling-poop faced Doreen Grey and The super-sexy Queen of the Amazons- will they clash or unite for Hollywood?

Is Chryson, the odious god of big business, going to finally go bankrupt? Who's washes his privates?

QUESTIONS! Answered?

Campbell worked in a TEAM of four to emulate the "bullpen" of Marvel's silver age writing and rendering epic hand-to-hand and cosmic battles in monthly fashion. They did well and made it much more interesting and insightful- tailoring it to intelligent adults instead of YDaFoC* boys.

It made me mad seeing scumbag Stan Lee's name mentioned as inspiration twice in the introduction. How many of you know the real story behind the Marvel silver age? Stan was reprehensible (to put it lightly) and all that super-hero folderol that the generation above me worshiped as kids came at a cost to the creators that didn't justify their legacy and left them with the requisite problems (sometimes extreme) of being poorly-paid slaves! If I had caught Stan alone on the street before his demise I would have taken his stupid glasses off and crushed them under my shoe just like he did metaphorically to Jack Kirby so he would know what it was like to stagger around blind at someone else's expense. Who makes their employees work in the dark!

*Young, Dumb and Full of C..