Bacchus (comics)

Bacchus is a comics character created by Eddie Campbell and based upon the Roman god of wine and revelry, known to the Greeks as Dionysus.

Bacchus first appeared as a character in Deadface (March 1987), a Harrier Comics title which lasted eight issues. In issue five Campbell spun the character out of that book and into his own comic, the eponymous Bacchus, a book that lasted two issues, focusing 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.

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.

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