Alex de Campi

{{Short description|American music video director, comics writer and columnist}}

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}}Alex de Campi is a British-born American music video director, comics writer and columnist.

Career

= Comics =

Alex de Campi wrote 2005's mini-series Smoke (published by IDW Publishing, art by Igor Kordey),{{cite news|last=Manning |first=Shaun |title=Alex de Campi: Clearing The Smoke |work=Comics Bulletin |publisher=Jason Brice |date=June 23, 2005 |url=http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/111958509153453.htm |accessdate=March 9, 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804044425/http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/111958509153453.htm |archivedate=August 4, 2009 }} which was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Limited Series,{{cite news| last = Weiland| first = Jonah| title = Chris Ware & Warren Ellis Lead 2006 Eisner Nominations| work = Comic Book Resources| publisher = Boiling Point Productions DBA Comic Book Resources| date = April 5, 2006| url = http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7045| accessdate = March 9, 2008}} and her 2006 manga series Kat & Mouse (published by Tokyopop, art by Federica Manfredi).{{cite news|last=Kean |first=Benjamin Ong Pang |title=Playing Kat & Mouse with Alex de Campi |work=Newsarama |publisher=Newsarama.com |year=2005 |url=http://www.newsarama.com/tokyopop/Kat/Kat_Mouse.htm |accessdate=March 9, 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503102231/http://www.newsarama.com/tokyopop/Kat/Kat_Mouse.htm |archivedate=May 3, 2007 }} Some of De Campi's work falls outside the superhero genre, with Smoke being a political thriller, and Kat & Mouse detailing the adventures of two mystery-solving high school students (a "CSI for tweens"); she has published work for children (e.g. Agent Boo) and for the European market (e.g. her French language sci-noir series Messiah Complex).

Her other works includes the Valentine mobile comic,[http://www.valentinethecomic.com/ Valentine comic] website{{cite web |first=Alex |last=Dueben |url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24067 |title=Alex De Campi Celebrates "Valentine" |publisher=Comic Book Resources |date=December 15, 2009 |accessdate=December 16, 2009 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20091219085425/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24067| archivedate= December 19, 2009 | url-status= live}} which was the main focus of her column "Uncanny Valleygirl" at the comics industry website Bleeding Cool.{{Cite web|title=Contributors|url=https://bleedingcool.com/contributors/|access-date=March 4, 2022|website=Bleeding Cool News And Rumors|date=November 29, 2015 |language=en-US}} and Grindhouse comics for Dark Horse.

In April 2015, she launched an ongoing thriller at Image Comics titled No Mercy{{Cite web|title=Hero Complex|url=https://www.latimes.com/topic/hero-complex|access-date=March 4, 2022|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}} with Carla Speed McNeil. In addition, she wrote a mini-crossover series for Archie Comics and Dark Horse Comics titled Archie vs. Predator, in which the Archie gang meets The Predator. The series features the characters illustrated in the classic Archie style, while the 2019 sequel by de Campi, Archie vs. Predator II, the rebooted versions of the Archie characters meet the rebooted Predator from the then-most-recent film. In 2015, she also wrote a two-issue Wonder Woman story, among other comics.{{Cite web|title=ComicBook.com|url=https://comicbook.com/approved/|access-date=March 4, 2022|website=comicbook.com}}

In 2017, she co-authored with Arthur Wyatt a Judge Dredd story that takes place in the cinematic universe of the 2012 film Dredd, published in issues 386-388 of Judge Dredd Megazine.

In November 2018 it was announced by the streaming service Crunchyroll that it would produce an anime science fiction series based in the world Blade Runner called Blade Runner: Black Lotus{{Cite web|date=November 29, 2018|title='Blade Runner' Anime Series Coming to Adult Swim|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/blade-runner-anime-series-coming-adult-swim-1164799|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en}} which is scheduled to be released in 2021. De Campi wrote two episodes for the series.{{Cite web|title=Be prepared that I'm gonna RT every damn announcement about the Blade Runner anime|url=https://twitter.com/alexdecampi/status/1068226500560896000|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=Twitter|language=en}}

In 2019 de Campi released a graphic novella called Bad Girls with artist Victor Santos recounting a robbery that takes place in the face of the revolution in Cuba.{{Cite web|date=May 9, 2017|title=Exclusive: Alex de Campi & Victor Santos Announce Cuban Revolution Noir Graphic Novel, Bad Girls|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/comics/alex-de-campi/exclusive-alex-de-campi-victor-santos-announce-bad-girls/|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=pastemagazine.com|language=en}} The book was highly acclaimed and won de Campi two nominations for the Eisner Award. She received two more nominations for the Eisner's in 2019 for the anthology series "Twisted Romance" she published around Valentine's Day for Image Comics.

In 2020, de Campi co-created with Duncan Jones a crowd-funded comic titled MADI: Once Upon a Time in the Future that takes place in the cinematic universe of his previous films "Moon" and "Mute"{{Cite web|last=Spry|first=Jeff|date=May 29, 2020|title=Duncan Jones and Alex de Campi complete the 'Mooniverse' with sci-fi graphic novel, MADI|url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/duncan-jones-alex-de-campi-madi-graphic-novel-kickstarter|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=SYFY WIRE|language=en}}

The British Science Fiction Association's journal Vector praised DeCampi's work Grindhouse as one of six groundbreaking science fiction works (by women) in the comics medium, and declared: "If science fiction was ever a male genre, and comics ever a male medium, de Campi is the saboteur extraordinaire."{{Cite web |url=http://www.comicbookgrrrl.com/2015/01/02/vector-sequentials-1-women-and-sf-comics/ |title=Vector: Sequentials #1 – Women and SF Comics | comicbookGRRRL |access-date=February 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020224129/http://www.comicbookgrrrl.com/2015/01/02/vector-sequentials-1-women-and-sf-comics/ |url-status=dead }}

= Videos =

De Campi directed a number of music videos, including the video for Amanda Palmer's "Leeds United",{{cite news|title=SRO Exclusive & Interview – Amanda Palmer Leeds United & Alex de Campi |date=November 23, 2008 |url=http://www.shotsringout.com/2008/11/sro-exclusive-interview-amanda-palmer-leeds-united-alex-de-campi |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105074212/http://www.shotsringout.com/2008/11/sro-exclusive-interview-amanda-palmer-leeds-united-alex-de-campi/ |archivedate=January 5, 2009 }} the animated video for Flipron's "Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead" (which was featured at the 2008 Marfa Film Festival,{{cite web|url=http://marfa.bside.com/2008/films/raindropskeepfallingonthedead_marfa2008 |title=Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead |work=Marfa Film Festival 2008 |accessdate=April 22, 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708101629/http://marfa.bside.com/2008/films/raindropskeepfallingonthedead_marfa2008 |archivedate=July 8, 2011 }} and SXSW in 2007), The Real Tuesday Weld feat The Puppini Sisters' "Apart of Me" (shown at Soho Shorts in 2008) and for The Schema's "Those Rules You Made".{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} She has given a "BBC Two Masterclass" on shooting videos, for Blast (a BBC initiative to encourage creativity in young people), focusing on her October 2007 video for The Real Tuesday Weld versus The Puppini Sisters.{{cite web| title = Shooting a music video on a shoestring| work = Blast| publisher = BBC| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/film/tipsandtools/bbc2_masterclass/masterclass6.shtml| accessdate = April 9, 2008}} {{dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}

= Prose novels =

In 2020, de Campi published her first full-length book, The Scottish Boy. Chapters from the book had been published online since 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/excerpt-alex-de-campi-novel-scottish-boy/|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=bleedingcool.com|title=Excerpt from Alex de Campi's First Novel, the Scottish Boy|date=October 24, 2018}}

Her second prose novel, Heartbreak Incorporated, was released in the summer of 2021.{{Cite web|date=February 24, 2020|title=Solaris to publish new Alex de Campi novel, Heartbreak Incorporated|url=https://qa.rebellionpublishing.com/solaris-to-publish-new-alex-de-campi-novel-heartbreak-incorporated/|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=Rebellion Publishing}}

Works

= Bibliography =

Smoke (art by Igor Kordey, 3-issue mini-series, 2005, tpb, 156 pages, December 2005, {{ISBN|1-933239-28-X}})
Kat & Mouse (art by Federica Manfredi, 2006)
Agent Boo (art by Edo Fuijkschot, 2006)
Messiah Complex (art by [duardo Ocana, 2006)
Adam in Chromaland (art by Luigi Giammarino, 2007)
Archie vs. Predator (art by Fernando Ruiz, 4-issue mini-series, 2015)
"Desiderium" (short story), Whose Future is It?, chapter 13 (2018)"Alex de Campi" in Cellarius Stories, Volume 1. Cellarius, Ed., New York: 2018, {{ISBN|978-1-949688-02-3}}.
Archie vs. Predator II (art by Robert Hack, 5-issue mini-series, 2019)
Bad Karma (Panel Syndicate) (art by Ryan Howe and Dee Cunniffe, 2020)

= Videography =

"Leeds United" – Amanda Palmer (Roadrunner) Aug 2008
"Last Words" – The Real Tuesday Weld (Six Degrees) Oct 2008
"Guilty Pleasure" – Manda Rin (ThisisfakeDIY) Oct 2008
"Lighthouse" – The Duloks (unsigned) – Aug 2008
"Book of Lies" – Flipron (Tiny Dog) Jul 2008
"These Eyes" – Martin/Towers (Northstar Records) Feb 2008
"Jilted" – The Puppini Sisters (Universal) Jan 2008
"(I Can't Believe I'm Not A) Millionaire" A-side and B-side versions – The Puppini Sisters (Universal) Jan 2008
"Pretty Little Miss Dysmorphia" – Des O'Connor (unsigned) Jan 2008
"Apart of Me" – The Real Tuesday Weld feat The Puppini Sisters (Six Degrees) Oct 2007
"Those Rules" – The Schema (unsigned) Aug 2007
"Why Dogs Howl at the Moon" – Thomas Truax (ST Records) Jul 2007
"Dogboy vs Monsters" – Flipron (Tiny Dog) Mar 2007
"Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead" – Flipron (Tiny Dog) May 2006