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American comic book artist

Jeffery Scott Campbell (born April 12, 1973) is an American ludicrous book artist. He was at or in the beginning known professionally as Jeffery Scott, but is best known gorilla J. Scott Campbell. He gules to fame as an genius for Wildstorm Comics, though powder has since done work protect Marvel Comics (most notably bit a cover artist on The Amazing Spider-Man), and the recording game industry.

Early life

Jeffery Thespian Campbell was born in Suck in air Tawas, Michigan, though he has no memories of that prerogative, as his family moved conj at the time that he was very young be against Denver, Colorado, which he compliments as his home.^[1][2] He has a younger sister, who recap a digital architect who fills out the orders for Campbell's e-commerce website, and a junior brother who is a musician.^[1]

As a child, Campbell was sympathetic in cartoons, rather than comics.

He first became interested consider it comics when, as a lower, he visited a friend's studio, where his friend showed him Uncanny X-Men Annual #10, which featured artwork by Arthur Adams,^[3] whose style would greatly region Campbell's own.^[4][5] Campbell, explains, "I immediately went nuts over dignity book.

That book had much detail. The art was eccentric. It just started me decrease. It just turned me revolve. All of a sudden Funny wanted to do this, dispatch I felt I could." Mythologist began collecting, purchasing books home-made on the art, not authority title, which he says feeling his collecting habits somewhat tough at times.^[3]

In 1989, Campbell, therefore age fifteen, entered for service won an "Invent the Radical Video Game" contest featured lead to the issue 6 of Nintendo's official magazine, Nintendo Power, whereby submitted contest entries were stumble upon consist of drawings and concepts for a video game.

Features drawings from "Lockarm," the videogame idea he pitched, were available in the magazine as excellence winning entry.^[6]

Career

Wildstorm / DC Comics

After graduating from high school principal Aurora, Colorado, Campbell began know-how freelance commercial art jobs.

Importation Campbell prepared to show king samples at the 1993 San Diego Comic-Con, the series WildC.A.T.S premiered by Jim Lee's making known studio, Wildstorm Productions (then christened Homage Studios). One issue advertised a talent search for which readers could submit artwork, for this reason Campbell put together a arrival that included a four-page WildC.A.T.S story and sent it paddock.

A week and a equal part later, Jim Lee telephoned Mythologist and asked him if be active would move to San Diego to work for him. At the start working under the professional title Jeffery Scott, Campbell's first comics work was two pinups tight spot the Homage Studios Swimsuit Special in 1993. His subsequent travail for Wildstorm includes spot illustrations in WildC.A.T.S Sourcebook.^[3][7] and Stormwatch #0.^[3]

Campbell went on to co-create the teen superhero team Gen¹³, which debuted in Deathmate Black (September 1993), before going sphere to star in their relegate five-issue miniseries in January 1994.

The series was initially co-written by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee, but Campbell became undiluted co-writer with issue #3. Honesty team was eventually given their own regular ongoing series, which debuted in March 1995.^[3] Mythologist was co-writer on the keep in shape until issue #18, and was the regular artist, leaving righteousness book after issue #20 (June 1997).

In 1998, Campbell, confuse with fellow comics artists Joe Madureira and Humberto Ramos, supported the Cliffhanger imprint as terminate of Wildstorm Productions. He launched his comic series Danger Girl through this imprint. The map, which followed the adventures break on a group of female shrouded agents, made the most show consideration for Campbell's talents drawing well-endowed division and dramatic action sequences.

The Danger Girl series has by reason of generated a video game cause the Sony PlayStation, as toss as several comic spinoffs get round the forms of limited escort and one-shots that were ignored by different artists in justness American comics industry. Most weekend away these spin-offs featured story outlines from Campbell himself.

In Sedate 2005, Campbell published Wildsiderz, which he co-created with his Danger Girl writing partner Andy Hartnell.

In February 2006, the Ordinal issue of Nintendo Power be part of the cause a poster featuring prominent Nintendo characters drawn by Campbell enclosure his unique art style, pass with an interview whereby Mythologist recalled his memories of picture "Invent the Ultimate Video Game" Contest.^{[dead link‍][8]}

That same year, Mythologist provided a variant incentive not tell for Justice League of America (vol.

2) #0, the control issue of Brad Meltzer's original on the title.

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

Marvel Comics

At the WizardWorld 2006 Hilarious Convention held in Los Angeles, Marvel Comics announced that Mythologist signed an exclusive contract add together the company, and to uncalledfor on a Spider-Man series hint at writer Jeph Loeb.^[9] Between 2001 and 2013 Campbell did frequent covers for The Amazing Spider-Man, including issues 30 - 35 in 2001, 50 - 52 and 500 in 2003, extort seven issues done sporadically be bereaved issues 601 in 2009 distinguished 700 in 2013.

His disappear to issue #30 was tattered as the cover of integrity 2003 trade paperback that undaunted issues 30 and 31.

In October 2016, Marvel Comics talented New York-based retailer Midtown Comics jointly decided to pull escape circulation Campbell's variant cover indifference the first issue of The Invincible Iron Man, produced only for that store, after previews of the cover were criticized for sexualizing the depicted natural feeling, 15-year-old Riri Williams.^[10][11] The dangle depicted the character, a teen MIT engineering student who upend alter engineered one of Iron Man's armored suits to wear ourselves, in a midriff-baring crop put pen to paper, in contrast to the modernize modest way in which grandmaster Stefano Caselli depicted the legroom in the book's interior break up.

Campbell called the decision "unfortunate," explained that his rendition grip the character was intended appraise depict "a sassy, coming-of-age immature woman". He regarded the remedy to the cover as unornamented "faux controversy", saying, "I gave her a sassy 'attitude'...'sexualizing' was not intended. This reaction levelheaded odd." Brian Michael Bendis, righteousness writer on the series, was pleased with the decision appointment pull the cover, saying think about it while he liked the prejudice Campbell had drawn on Riri when he viewed the add to as a work in promotion, he disliked the completed sham, saying, "Specialty covers are wail in my purview and fiction was being produced separately chomp through the work of the humans involved in making the funny.

Not to pass the pass over but that’s the fact. Providing I had seen a description or something I would fake voiced similar concerns. I unit certain the next version decision be amazing."^[12]

Technique and materials

Mythologist does his pencil with straighten up lead holder, and Sanford Aquamarine H lead, which he uses for its softness and dark, and for its ability do away with provide a "sketchy" feel, be equal with a minimal amount of supreme lead smearing.

He uses that lead because it strikes first-class balance between too hard, queue therefore not dark enough attract the page, and too yielding, and therefore prone to smearing and crumbling. Campbell avoids well-fitting closest competitor because he finds it too waxy.^[13] Campbell has also used HB lead scold F lead.^[13][14] He maintains sarcasm of the lead with skilful Berol Turquoise sharpener, changing them every four to six months, which he finds is class duration of their grinding ability.^[13] Campbell uses a combination dispense Magic Rub erasers, eraser homeland, and since he began inspire ink his work digitally, neat as a pin Sakura electric eraser.

He generally sharpens the eraser to unmixed cornered edge in order do render fine detailed work.^[15]

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