aged to perfection Eddie Campbell’s Bacchus is a true epic, spanning a decade of work, over a thousand pages, and several millennia of alcohol consumption. Author photo by Phil Cross
EDDIE CAMPBELL is a bestselling and award-winning cartoonist, born in Scotland and admired worldwide. With Alan Moore, he explored the infamous Whitechapel murders in the monumental graphic novel From Hell, later adapted into a Hollywood film. His autobiographical comics, collected in the omnibus Alec: The Years Have Pants, have earned him a reputation as one of the medium’s great raconteurs, while his wide-ranging epic Bacchus compiles the outrageous modern adventures of the ancient god of wine. Campbell’s other books include A Disease of Language (with Alan Moore), The Fate of the Artist, The Black Diamond Detective Agency, The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard (with Dan Best), The Playwright (with Daren White), The Lovely Horrible Stuff, The From Hell Companion (with Alan Moore), and The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains (with Neil Gaiman).
In Bacchus, the visionary behind From Hell (with Alan Moore) and Alec: The Years Have Pants presents his version of “an American-style comic book,” filtered through his own brilliant, whimsical, and wide-ranging sensibility. With a fine blend of action, comedy, suspense, and an ear for a great story, Bacchus brings the gods and myths of ancient Greece to modern life, as if they had never left. This deluxe volume collects the second half of the Bacchus saga (including 1001 Nights of Bacchus, Hermes vs. the Eyeball Kid, The Picture of Doreen Grey, King Bacchus, and Banged Up), with new notes and commentary by the author.
COLLECTS THE PREVIOUS BACCHUS BOOKS:
1001 NIGHTS OF BACCHUS HERMES VERSUS THE EYEBALL KID THE PICTURE OF DOREEN GREY KING BACCHUS BANGED UP
After the cataclysmic events of Volume One, our immortal hero deserves a rest at his local pub—but Eddie Campbell’s pen soars to ever greater ambitions. Along with many of comics’ greatest short stories, get ready for super-human slugfests, royal Amazon weddings, an uproarious coup d’etat as the pub becomes a sovereign nation, the appearance of God Himself, and finally, inevitably…the consequences. Bacchus is truly an experience to be savored. Open and enjoy: these were very good years. “One of comics’ premier storytellers…If in his autobiographical stories Campbell extracts magnificence from the quotidian, these tales of earthbound gods are infused with a quirky everyday humanity.” —BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) “Campbell’s breakneck inking and skittering Zip-a-Tone accents perfectly complement his fantasias of the god of wine and cronies wandering through the twentieth century.” —THE VILLAGE VOICE
ISBN 978-1-60309-027-8 53999
$39.99
9 781603 090278
“Campbell’s style veers pleasingly from sketchy and conversational to the occasional bursts of baroque illustration when the gods appear to step right off the pages of myth.” —AV CLUB
“Eddie Campbell’s impressive Bacchus is a massive saga that tracks the eponymous Greek deity at the tail end of the 20th Century. Bacchus spanned decades and publishers, and the collected omnibus is a true treat.” —UNDER THE RADAR
Bacchus (Omnibus Edition): Volume Two © & ™ 2016 Eddie Campbell. Published by Top Shelf Productions, PO Box 1282, Marietta, GA 30061-1282, USA. Editor-in-Chief: Chris Staros. Top Shelf Productions is an imprint of IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Offices: 2765 Truxtun Road, San Diego, CA 92106. Top Shelf Productions®, the Top Shelf logo, Idea and Design Works®, and the IDW logo are registered trademarks of Idea and Design Works, LLC. All Rights Reserved. This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.With the exception of small excerpts of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of IDW Publishing. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork. Edited by Chris Staros with Zac Boone & Leigh Walton. Design by Chris Ross and Eddie Campbell from Eric Skillman’s design for Alec:The Years Have Pants by Eddie Campbell. ISBN (softcover edition): 978-1-60309-027-8 ISBN (limited hardcover edition, signed & numbered): 978-1-60309-405-4 Printed in Korea. 20
19
18
17
16
5
4
3
2
1
9
10
11
12
13