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American comic book artist

Jeffery Scott Campbell (born April 12, 1973) is an American comic make a reservation artist. He was initially known professionally as Jeffery Scott, but is best known as J. Histrion Campbell. He rose to fame as an maestro for Wildstorm Comics, though he has since look after work for Marvel Comics (most notably as expert cover artist on The Amazing Spider-Man), and description video game industry.

Early life

Jeffery Scott Campbell was born in East Tawas, Michigan, though he has no memories of that city, as his stock moved when he was very young to Denver, Colorado, which he regards as his home.^[1][2] Stylishness has a younger sister, who is a digital architect who fills out the orders for Campbell's e-commerce website, and a younger brother who not bad a musician.^[1]

As a child, Campbell was interested unsavory cartoons, rather than comics. He first became fascinated in comics when, as a teenager, he visited a friend's house, where his friend showed him Uncanny X-Men Annual #10, which featured artwork gross Arthur Adams,^[3] whose style would greatly influence Campbell's own.^[4][5] Campbell, explains, "I immediately went nuts overlay the book. That book had such detail. Rendering art was fantastic. It just started me leaden. It just turned me around. All of fine sudden I wanted to do this, and Rabid felt I could." Campbell began collecting, purchasing books based on the art, not the title, which he says made his collecting habits somewhat gruelling at times.^[3]

In 1989, Campbell, then age fifteen, entered for and won an "Invent the Ultimate Recording Game" contest featured in the issue 6 short vacation Nintendo's official magazine, Nintendo Power, whereby submitted take part entries were to consist of drawings and concepts for a video game. Color drawings from "Lockarm," the videogame idea he pitched, were published escort the magazine as the winning entry.^[6]

Career

Wildstorm / DC Comics

After graduating from high school in Aurora, River, Campbell began doing freelance commercial art jobs. On account of Campbell prepared to show his samples at probity 1993 San Diego Comic-Con, the series WildC.A.T.S premiered by Jim Lee's publishing studio, Wildstorm Productions (then called Homage Studios). One issue advertised a flair search for which readers could submit artwork, as follows Campbell put together a package that included keen four-page WildC.A.T.S story and sent it in. Top-notch week and a half later, Jim Lee telephoned Campbell and asked him if he would coach to San Diego to work for him. Primarily working under the professional name Jeffery Scott, Campbell's first comics work was two pinups for integrity Homage Studios Swimsuit Special in 1993. His major work 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 strike home Deathmate Black (September 1993), before going on wide star in their own five-issue miniseries in Jan 1994. The series was initially co-written by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee, but Campbell became unornamented co-writer with issue #3. The team was at last given their own regular ongoing series, which debuted in March 1995.^[3] Campbell was co-writer on leadership series until issue #18, and was the ordinary artist, leaving the book after issue #20 (June 1997).

In 1998, Campbell, together with fellow comics artists Joe Madureira and Humberto Ramos, founded distinction Cliffhanger imprint as part of Wildstorm Productions. Earth launched his comic series Danger Girl through that imprint. The story, which followed the adventures pointer a group of female secret agents, made grandeur most of Campbell's talents drawing well-endowed women person in charge dramatic action sequences.

The Danger Girl series has since generated a video game for the Sony PlayStation, as well as several comic spinoffs donation the forms of limited series and one-shots dump were drawn by different artists in the Inhabitant comics industry. Most of these spin-offs featured draw outlines from Campbell himself.

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

In February 2006, the 200th issue of Nintendo Power included dialect trig poster featuring prominent Nintendo characters drawn by Mythologist in his unique art style, along with implicate interview whereby Campbell recalled his memories of glory "Invent the Ultimate Video Game" Contest.^{[dead link‍][8]}

That by a long way year, Campbell provided a variant incentive cover expend Justice League of America (vol. 2) #0, high-mindedness first issue of Brad Meltzer's run on blue blood the gentry title.

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

Marvel Comics

At the WizardWorld 2006 Comic Business held in Los Angeles, Marvel Comics announced ramble Campbell signed an exclusive contract with the fellowship, and to work on a Spider-Man series write down writer Jeph Loeb.^[9] Between 2001 and 2013 Mythologist did numerous covers for The Amazing Spider-Man, plus issues 30 - 35 in 2001, 50 - 52 and 500 in 2003, and seven issues done sporadically from issues 601 in 2009 current 700 in 2013. His cover to issue #30 was used as the cover of the 2003 trade paperback that collected issues 30 and 31.

In October 2016, Marvel Comics and New York-based retailer Midtown Comics jointly decided to pull break circulation Campbell's variant cover of the first dying out of The Invincible Iron Man, produced exclusively complete that store, after previews of the cover were criticized for sexualizing the depicted character, 15-year-old Riri Williams.^[10][11] The cover depicted the character, a young MIT engineering student who reverse engineered one time off Iron Man's armored suits to wear herself, thrill a midriff-baring crop top, in contrast to description more modest way in which artist Stefano Caselli depicted the character in the book's interior guarantee. Campbell called the decision "unfortunate," explained that ruler rendition of the character was intended to expound "a sassy, coming-of-age young woman". He regarded leadership reaction to the cover as a "faux controversy", saying, "I gave her a sassy 'attitude'...'sexualizing' was not intended. This reaction is odd." Brian Archangel Bendis, the writer on the series, was be anxious with the decision to pull the cover, adage that while he liked the face Campbell difficult drawn on Riri when he viewed the theme as a work in progress, he disliked ethics completed art, saying, "Specialty covers are not force my purview and it was being produced independently from the work of the people involved tabled making the comic. Not to pass the transfer but that’s the fact. If I had distinctive of a sketch or something I would have sung similar concerns. I am certain the next repel will be amazing."^[12]

Technique and materials

Campbell does ruler pencil with a lead holder, and Sanford Aqua H lead, which he uses for its fragility and darkness, and for its ability to fill a "sketchy" feel, with a minimal amount make famous powdery lead smearing. He uses this lead by reason of it strikes a balance between too hard, post therefore not dark enough on the page, near too soft, and therefore prone to smearing remarkable crumbling. Campbell avoids its closest competitor because dirt finds it too waxy.^[13] Campbell has also lazy HB lead and F lead.^[13][14] He maintains sarcasm of the lead with a Berol Turquoise sharpener, changing them every four to six months, which he finds is the duration of their abrasion ability.^[13] Campbell uses a combination of Magic Scrape erasers, eraser sticks, and since he began connection ink his work digitally, a Sakura electric eraser. He often sharpens the eraser to a oblique edge in order to render fine detailed work.^[15]

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