
Eddie Campbell has earned an international following. For over 25 years, he has blazed a trail in the world of graphic novels, and his work has earned nearly every honor in the field, including the Eisner, Ignatz, and Harvey awards. With Alan Moore he created the towering opus From Hell, later adapted by Hollywood. Among the multitude of solo works he has produced, the epic series Bacchus brings the adventures of the Greek god of wine bang up to date, along the way adding such anomalies as the Eyeball Kid to the ancient pantheon. His autobiographical Alec has also garnered praise, notably for the memorable graphic novels Alec: the King Canute Crowd, and Alec: how to be an Artist.
For the first time ever, the pioneering autobiographical comics of master cartoonist Eddie Campbell (From Hell) are collected in a single volume Brilliantly observed and profoundly expressed, the ALEC stories present a version of Campbell's own life, filtered through the alter ego of "Alec MacGarry." Over many years, we witness Alec's (and Eddie's) progression "from beer to wine" - wild nights at the pub, existential despair, the hunt for love, the quest for art, becoming a "responsible breadwinner," feeling lost at his own movie premiere, and much more Eddie's outlandish fantasies and metafictional tricks convert life into art, while staying fully grounded in his own absurdity. This Life-Size Omnibus edition of ALEC includes all the stories from The King Canute Crowd, Three-Piece Suit, How to be an Artist, and After the Snooter, as well as the very early, out-of-print ALEC stories and a staggering amount of bonus material.
In this psuedo autobiography, the subject of the memoir has vanished without a trace.A master comics artist, here Eddie Campbell offers a complex, caustic and surprising meditation on balancing the lonely life of the artist with the demands of everyday life.
John Hardin is a desperate man. When a train carrying official US currency paper explodes in his town, he's the prodigious Black Diamond Detective Agency's sole suspect. John is innocent, but his wife is missing, his old friends are coming back to haunt him--with guns and explosives--and he's on the run through rural Missouri. THE BLACK DIAMOND DETECTIVE AGENCY is based on the historical journals of Arthur James Quindlen, the agency's founder. Adapted and illustrated with watercolor art by Eddie Campbell, this graphic novel brings a new perspective to that time in America when small farmers were the backbone of the country, graft was rampant, and railroads thundered through western towns.
‘He flies through the air with the greatest of ease – the daring young man on the flying trapeze!’ Step right up, Ladies and Gentlemen, for a glorious spectacle of graphic literature beyond your wildest imaginings, in which young Etienne discovers that replacing his uncle as the Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard, world-renowned acrobat and head of a circus troupe, is every bit as difficult as it appears to be. Etienne is swept up in wonder and work even as he struggles to keep up his grandiose façade, while every day his chances for happiness slip further away. For Etienne, taking a stand for his own happiness is as daring as any trick the Amazing Remarkable Leotard could perform. Eddie Campbell and Dan Best bring to life the historical story of the daring young man on the flying trapeze in a tale filled with wonders and marvels.
The Playwright rather enjoys a quiet moment in the local park. It is a good place to mentally sort his ideas, and is often frequented by pretty young ladies. He once saw a pigeon defecate onto a businessman's shoulder. It struck him as absurd that such an event is often considered lucky. Surely the luck lay with passers-by who, statistically, were far less likely to be similarly soiled, at that precise moment. Similarly, the Playwright always derived an almost perverse sense of relief whenever he received news that an old friend had developed prostate cancer. Because statistically, he reasoned, such news significantly reduced the chances of him being similarly afflicted. And to be honest, at his age, his prostate needed all the statistical support he could muster." The Playwright: a dark, romantic comedy about the sex life of a celibate, middle-aged man.
Immortality Isn't Forever tells what happened to the Greek gods. Introduces Bacchus, the 4,000 year old Greek God of Wine, Joe Theseus and the Eyeball Kid.
Eddie Campbell has created a graphic novel about the rise and fall of the graphic novel itself, and along the way draws potent conclusions about the very nature of art. It is a graphic novel about becoming an artist and making your way in the world as an artist. The narrative teems with established luminaries as well as "would be" artists. Many are briefly examined while a few have been made the subjects of penetrating case histories in this cavalcade of dreamers, fools and sudden millionaires.
Alec is a brilliant and insightful romp through Eddie Campbell's own life, and it represents one of the best, and first, works in the autobiographical-comics genre. In it, we witness Eddie's progression from "beer to wine," or to put it more accurately, his inevitable maturation through time. Whether it's tales of his early pub-crawlin' days, or glimpses into his current private life with "wifey" and kids, there are "truths" here that transcend the factual and paint a picture of the way life should be. This collection, numbered at 51 in The Comics Journal's top comics of the century, has been much sought after by collectors of the serious graphic novel as well as readers new to the idea of comics. Top Shelf Productions
Money makes the world go round, as they say... but HOW, exactly? Award-winning graphic novelist Eddie Campbell ( From Hell , Alec ) presents a fascinating journey into the wilderness of personal finance. With his trademark blend of research, anecdote, autobiography, and fantasy, Campbell explores how money underwrites human relationships, flowing all around us like the air we breathe — or the water we drown in. The result is a whimsical graphic essay, deeply grounded in Eddie's personal experiences with "the lovely horrible stuff," ranging from the imaginary wealth of Ponzi schemes and television pilots to the all-too-tangible stone currency of the Micronesian island of Yap.In a world where drawing corporate superheroes requires literally transforming oneself into a corporation (which is kept in a shoebox under the bed), we are in strange territory, indeed. Fortunately, Campbell's wry eye and vivid full-color artwork imbue the proceedings with real humanity, making The Lovely Horrible Stuff an investment that's worth every penny.
Eddie Campbell’s Bacchus is a true epic, spanning a decade of work, over a thousand pages, and several millennia of alcohol consumption.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.Nearly 600 pages, this deluxe volume collects the first half of the Bacchus saga (including Immortality Isn't Forever, The Gods of Business, Doing the Islands with Bacchus, The Eyeball Kid: One Man Show, and Earth, Water, Air & Fire) with new notes and commentary by the author.
Depicts the terrors of middle age through the eyes of the author, as he describes his daily routines as husband, father, son, friend, and artist, all while battling a mothlike creature called the Snooter.
Doing the islands with Bacchus, the 4,000 year old Greek God of Wine gathering up the short stories of the wine god's wanderings about after the events above - introduces Hermes.
Eddie Campbell and Daren White's _ The Order of the Beasts_ is another of DC Comics' Elseworlds graphic novels. Set in 1939, this story features a young Bruce Wayne in London about a year after he assumed the mantle of Batman, and Wayne makes use of both his identities to thwart a deranged plot to kill off the members, who include Winston Churchill, of an exclusive gentleman's club prior to the outbreak of World War Two.
Joe Theseus and the multi-faceted crazy Eyeball Kid get buggered around by the Telchines.
Three of Eddie Campbell's "Alec" books collected into a single volume for the first time. " Three Piece Suit" "Graffiti Kitchen," considered by many to be his finest work. A mad story about love and a three-way Alec loves Georgette, her mother and himself; "Little Italy," a record of a year spent in tropical North Queensland in Australia; & "The Dance of Lifey Death," in which Alec ruminates on "wifey" and kids -- all the important things in life.Eddie Campbell's "Alec" stories are a brilliant and insightful romp through his own life. In them, we witness Eddie's progression from "beer to wine," or to put it more accurately, his inevitable maturation through time. Whether it's tales of his early pub-crawlin' days, or glimpses into his current private life with "wifey" and kids, there are "truths" here that transcend the factual and paint a picture of the way life should be.
Eddie Campbell is not himself. But these days, who is? It’s meta-fictional mystery and mischief as the award-winning artist of From Hell sets out to find his own imposter.Plus, on the a deluxe new presentation of The Fate of the Artist , Eddie Campbell’s classic work of graphic meta-memoir!SIDE The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell , by Eddie Campbell, is a spiritual sequel to his acclaimed graphic novel The Fate of the Artist , in which the author was missing from his own autobiography. Many years later, during an endless Covid lockdown in which everybody wears a mask and needs a haircut, Eddie’s wife is certain that he has been supplanted by an imposter. She hires a detective, the square-jawed Royler Boom, to solve the mystery. What follows — interspersed with Campbell’s trademark wry anecdotes, dreams, parodic pastiches, and pandemic peccadilloes — is a thrilling investigation that builds to a car chase and a violent conclusion. The author cunningly passes this off as another piece of autobiography.SIDE The Fate of the Artist : In an autobiography, the author and the subject are the same person… but now they’ve both gone missing. The Fate of the Artist is a complex weaving of different strains of invention including a mock prose detective story, an imaginary Sunday comic strip, a mock fumetti-style interview with the author's daughter, intertwined with Campbell's beloved brand of autobiographical comic storytelling. In this deluxe reissue of a groundbreaking book, the award-winning cartoonist of From Hell and Alec presents a complex, caustic, and fiendishly clever meditation on the lonely life of the artist and the busy life that swirls around him.
Another big story. Bacchus, Joe Theseus and the Kid are seen all together for the first time. Villains include Skylla, the Kabeiroi and Vinnie Bosanova. Introduces the Anchovy.
Story, art and cover by Eddie Campbell. Another adventure of Campbells' autobiographical alter ego, Alec MacGarry. Throwing caution to the wind, Alec becomes romantically involved with the mother of a previous lover. 48 pages, Black & White interior art, Mature Readers. First Printing, cover as shown, published in 1993 by Tundra
Baco, dios del vino y de la juerga, hijo ilegítimo de Zeus, sigue vivo. Arrastrando sus más de cuatro mil años, recorre los bares de la ciudad en busca de Joe Teseo, que posee el secreto de la juventud eterna y a quien debe venganza. El Olimpo ha descendido a la tierra, provocando trifulcas, persecuciones y orgías. Y es que, como dice el viejo Baco: “La inmortalidad no es para siempre. Después de cuatro mil años, de repente, hay un montón de dioses con cara de muerto que quieren resolver sus asuntos a toda prisa”.En este primer volumen de la serie de Baco, publicada originalmente entre 1986 y 1999 y que se editará en castellano por primera vez de forma completa, en cinco volúmenes, Eddie Campbell se apropia de los mitos griegos y de sus dioses para convertirlos en los protagonistas de una trama llena de intriga y suspense: el viejo Baco rememora sus años de juventud y de lujuria mientras persigue a Joe Teseo, convertido en jefe de un imperio del crimen organizado, para vengar la traición que éste infligió a Ariadna.
Synopsis: The Kid is down and out and wasted after the events at the top. Seeks vengeance on the Telchines. Hermes is here, too. Ed (The End of the Century Club) Hilyer is the artist.
Eddie Campbell’s Bacchus is a true epic, spanning a decade of work, over a thousand pages, and several millennia of alcohol consumption. In Bacchus , the visionary behind From Hell (with Alan Moore) and The Years Have Pants presents his version of "an American-style comicbook," 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. Nearly 600 pages, this deluxe volume collects the second half of the Bacchus saga with new notes and commentary by the author.
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Bacchus is monarch of the Castle and Frog Public House, newly seceded from the UK, in this rollicking satire.
Book by Campbell, Eddie
An older and no more wiser Alec McGarry finds himself not unhappily within the pleasant miracles of the everyday. Another instalment in the acclaimed autobiographical fictions of Eddie Campbell.