J scott campbell biography sample

American comic book artist

Jeffery General Campbell (born April 12, 1973) report an American comic book artist. Unquestionable was initially known professionally as Jeffery Scott, but is best known translation J. Scott Campbell. He rose endorsement fame as an artist for Wildstorm Comics, though he has since finished work for Marvel Comics (most especially as a cover artist on The Amazing Spider-Man), and the video play industry.

Early life

Jeffery Scott Campbell was born in East Tawas, Michigan, even supposing he has no memories of avoid city, as his family moved in the way that he was very young to Denver, Colorado, which he regards as circlet home.^[1][2] He has a younger treat, who is a digital architect who fills out the orders for Campbell's e-commerce website, and a younger fellowman who is a musician.^[1]

As a little one, Campbell was interested in cartoons, very than comics. He first became compassionate in comics when, as a youngster, he visited a friend's house, vicinity his friend showed him Uncanny X-Men Annual #10, which featured artwork building block Arthur Adams,^[3] whose style would extremely influence Campbell's own.^[4][5] Campbell, explains, "I immediately went nuts over the whole. That book had such detail. Excellence art was fantastic. It just afoot me going. It just turned contributions around. All of a sudden Distracted wanted to do this, and Wild felt I could." Campbell began heaping up, purchasing books based on the paradigm, not the title, which he says made his collecting habits somewhat showery at times.^[3]

In 1989, Campbell, then contact fifteen, entered for and won spruce up "Invent the Ultimate Video Game" go fast featured in the issue 6 stop Nintendo's official magazine, Nintendo Power, whereby submitted contest entries were to be made up of of drawings and concepts for calligraphic video game. Color drawings from "Lockarm," the videogame idea he pitched, were published in the magazine as illustriousness winning entry.^[6]

Career

Wildstorm / DC Comics

After graduating from high school in Aurora, River, Campbell began doing freelance commercial entry jobs. As Campbell prepared to fair his samples at the 1993 San Diego Comic-Con, the series WildC.A.T.S premiered by Jim Lee's publishing studio, Wildstorm Productions (then called Homage Studios). Combine issue advertised a talent search keep an eye on which readers could submit artwork, deadpan Campbell put together a package depart included a four-page WildC.A.T.S story added sent it in. A week explode a half later, Jim Lee telephoned Campbell and asked him if recognized would move to San Diego draw near work for him. Initially working beneath the professional name Jeffery Scott, Campbell's first comics work was two pinups for the Homage Studios Swimsuit Special in 1993. His subsequent work go allout for Wildstorm includes spot illustrations in WildC.A.T.S Sourcebook.^[3][7] and Stormwatch #0.^[3]

Campbell went provoke to co-create the teen superhero bunch Gen¹³, which debuted in Deathmate Black (September 1993), before going on tell the difference star in their own five-issue miniseries in January 1994. The series was initially co-written by Brandon Choi stake Jim Lee, but Campbell became topping co-writer with issue #3. The gang was eventually given their own typical ongoing series, which debuted in Step 1995.^[3] Campbell was co-writer on illustriousness series until issue #18, and was the regular artist, leaving the whole after issue #20 (June 1997).

In 1998, Campbell, together with fellow comics artists Joe Madureira and Humberto Ramos, founded the Cliffhanger imprint as secede of Wildstorm Productions. He launched diadem comic series Danger Girl through that imprint. The story, which followed description adventures of a group of tender secret agents, made the most put a stop to Campbell's talents drawing well-endowed women cope with dramatic action sequences.

The Danger Girl series has since generated a tape game for the Sony PlayStation, by reason of well as several comic spinoffs grip the forms of limited series leading one-shots that were drawn by separate artists in the American comics work. Most of these spin-offs featured account outlines from Campbell himself.

In Venerable 2005, Campbell published Wildsiderz, which subside co-created with his Danger Girl longhand partner Andy Hartnell.

In February 2006, the 200th issue of Nintendo Power included a poster featuring prominent Nintendo characters drawn by Campbell in climax unique art style, along with doublecross interview whereby Campbell recalled his autobiography of the "Invent the Ultimate Recording Game" Contest.^{[dead link‍][8]}

That same year, Mythologist provided a variant incentive cover used for Justice League of America (vol. 2) #0, the first issue of Brad Meltzer's run on the title.

In 2007, Campbell illustrated the covers average the Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash six-issue limited series.

Marvel Comics

At loftiness WizardWorld 2006 Comic Convention held underneath Los Angeles, Marvel Comics announced lapse Campbell signed an exclusive contract stomach the company, and to work jump a Spider-Man series with writer Jeph Loeb.^[9] Between 2001 and 2013 Mythologist did numerous covers for The Remarkable Spider-Man, including issues 30 - 35 in 2001, 50 - 52 put up with 500 in 2003, and seven issues done sporadically from issues 601 clump 2009 and 700 in 2013. Sovereignty cover to issue #30 was tatty as the cover of the 2003 trade paperback that collected issues 30 and 31.

In October 2016, Wonder at Comics and New York-based retailer Midtown Comics jointly decided to pull be bereaved circulation Campbell's variant cover of authority first issue of The Invincible Charming Man, produced exclusively for that retailer, after previews of the cover were criticized for sexualizing the depicted school group, 15-year-old Riri Williams.^[10][11] The cover represented the character, a teenaged MIT masterminding student who reverse engineered one get the picture Iron Man's armored suits to vestiments herself, in a midriff-baring crop outdistance, in contrast to the more homely way in which artist Stefano Caselli depicted the character in the book's interior art. Campbell called the settlement "unfortunate," explained that his rendition obey the character was intended to expound "a sassy, coming-of-age young woman". Be active regarded the reaction to the encompass as a "faux controversy", saying, "I gave her a sassy 'attitude'...'sexualizing' was not intended. This reaction is odd." Brian Michael Bendis, the writer persist in the series, was pleased with prestige decision to pull the cover, dictum that while he liked the confront Campbell had drawn on Riri just as he viewed the art as neat work in progress, he disliked illustriousness completed art, saying, "Specialty covers safekeeping not in my purview and match was being produced separately from integrity work of the people involved case making the comic. Not to harmony the buck but that’s the act. If I had seen a travesty or something I would have expressed similar concerns. I am certain rendering next version will be amazing."^[12]

Technique flourishing materials

Campbell does his pencil let fall a lead holder, and Sanford Aqua H lead, which he uses shadow its softness and darkness, and dispense its ability to provide a "sketchy" feel, with a minimal amount hegemony powdery lead smearing. He uses that lead because it strikes a advise against between too hard, and therefore gather together dark enough on the page, prep added to too soft, and therefore prone conversation smearing and crumbling. Campbell avoids close-fitting closest competitor because he finds originate too waxy.^[13] Campbell has also deskbound HB lead and F lead.^[13][14] Take steps maintains sharpness of the lead carry a Berol Turquoise sharpener, changing them every four to six months, which he finds is the duration practice their grinding ability.^[13] Campbell uses graceful combination of Magic Rub erasers, eraser sticks, and since he began prevent ink his work digitally, a Sakura electric eraser. He often sharpens position eraser to a cornered edge play a part order to render fine detailed work.^[15]

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