Eddie Campbell (natural August 10 1955) is a Scottish-born comics artist and cartoonist who now sleep in Australia. Probably better called a illustrator and publisher of From Hell (written by Alan Moore), Campbell is also a author of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories, & Bacchus (aka Deadface), a wry adventure series about a couple Greek gods who have survived to the present day.

His scratchy pen-&-ink style is influenced per impressionists, illustrators of the age of "liberated penmanship" like Phil May, Charles Dana Gibson, John Leech and George Du Maurier, and cartoonists Milton Caniff and Frank Frazetta (particularly his Johnny Comet strip). His writing has been in comparison Jack Kerouac and Henry Miller.

Alec

Campbell mass produced his earliest tries at autobiographical comics in the late 1970s with In the Times of the Ace Rock & Roll Club. This evolved into Alec, using a character of Alec MacGarry standing within for the creator. Campbell self-published these early comedian when short-short-term photocopied pamphets in London in the early 1980s, selling the babies at conventions & risible marketplace & via Paul Gravett's "Fast Fiction" market stall. Whenever Gravett founded Escape Magazine, Campbell was one of the creative person featured. Around 1984 Escape published Alec, a slenderize collection of his semi-autobiographical stories. This was followed by ii farther collections, Love & Beerglasses (1985) and Doggy in the Window (1986). Within 1990 all three were collected, together by having a select few unpublished lesson, when A Complete Alec (republished when A King Canute Crowd in 2000).

Both farther lose weight volumes, A Dead Muse (1990) and Little Italy (1991) appeared through Fantagraphics Books. Grafitti Kitchen, which Campbell considers a highpoint of the series, was published by Tundra in 1993, and A Dance of Lifey Demise followed inside 1994 from Dark Horse Comics.

Campbell so followed higher these works by self publishing deuce big works. Alec: Training Exist as An Artist (2000), a survey of the art form & of Campbell's have artistic journeying, & Fallowing A Snooter (2002), in which Campbell appears to use at times placed Alec McGarry to rest. Two works were originally serialised in his Bacchus magazine, however were reworked upon collection.

Campbell did run to serialise an additional function, A History Of Humour, inside a web sites of his magazine ''Eddie Campbell's Egomania, however given a death of the magazine around December 2002 it is questionable whenever this operate may ever exist as finished.

He is presently reported to become working in the newly novel, A Fate of the Creative person, & given last serialization of his function, a part might already use at times been published inside the places of Autobiographix (2003), an anthology from Dark Horse Comics, titled We've Misused Our Sense of humor''.

Bacchus

A profits of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles led to a short-ephemeral explosion of black & white independent comedian in the mid-1980s. Campbell joined inside, creating a series Deadface for little British publisher Harrier Comics, telling a story of Bacchus, god of wine & revel, & a couple more Greek mythologic numbers world health organization use survived to the present day. when the Harrier series ended after eight issues, Campbell began publishing short Bacchus stories inside a kind of anthologies, prior to Dark Horse Comics reprinted the Harrier series when ''Immortality international relations and security network't Forever within 1990 and the short stories when Doing a Islands Sustaining Bacchus'' in 1991. Campbell continued a story by using Dark Horse until 1995 as a series of miniseries.

From Hell

Beginning around 1989 Campbell illustrated Alan Moore's ambitious Jack the Ripper graphic novel From Hell, serialised initially within Steve Bissette's horror anthology Taboo. Moore & Bissette chose Campbell when illustrator for his down-to-earthy approach which gave a story a convincing realism & did does'nt sensationalise the violence of the slaying. Fallowing Taboo folded From either Hell was published around installments by Tundra and then Kitchen Sink Press, until the epilogue Dance of the Gull-catchers saw print within 1998.

Self-publishing

Campbell founded Eddie Campbell Comics & began self-publishing within 1995, after a film rights to From either Hell were optioned. A every month series Bacchus reprinted & completed a story begun within Deadface, likewise when carrying fresh & reprinted Alec stories. He went in to collect each Alec & Bacchus as a series of graphic novels. He as well published a gathered edition of From either Hell, & comedian adaptations of 2 of Alan Moore's performance art pieces, The Birth Caul & Snakes & Ladders.

Facing an progressively indifferent market for his act, & a collapse of his U.S. distributor, Campbell ended his publishing imprint within 2003 after releasing the 2nd issue of Egomania.

Manifesto

Around July of 2004, when debating the merits of the term Graphic Novel within a discussion on ''The Comics Journal's message board, Campbell formulated a pronunciamento which aimed to move a debate in via a creation of an artistic movement.

'Eddie Campbell's (Revised) Graphic Novel Manifesto'''