David Campiti

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David Campiti is an American comic book writer, talent agent, and co-founder of Innovation Publishing.

[edit] Biography

In 1985, David went into freelance editing, packaging full-time for several years, and helped launch Amazing, Wonder Comics, Pied Piper Comics, Eternity Comics, Sirius Entertainment, Malibu Comics, and other companies. In the process, he discovered and began the careers of such talents as Ron Lim and Bart Sears who began their professional careers penciling Ex-Mutants and Hero Alliance respectively.^{[citation needed]}

In 1988, he wrote a business proposal and raised US$400,000 to finance the launching of Innovation Publishing. Under David's control, Innovation became #4 in the market share, below only Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Dark Horse, as it brought to prominence many literary, film, and TV tie-in series and adaptations, such as Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat, Dark Shadows, Quantum Leap, Lost in Space, and many others. He was the first editor to publish an authorized Stephen King story in comics in 25 years.^{[verification needed]}

Over the years, David was a writer or co-writer for hundreds of comic books, often illustrated by the artists that he discovered.^{[citation needed]} His credits include Superman, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Magnus, Angel Heat, Beauty and the Beast, Dangerous Secrets, Dark Shadows, Hero Alliance, The Vampire Companion, and many others -- most recently Exposure and Jade Warriors, both for Image Comics. His son scripted his own first comic book, The Experimentals, for Caliber Comics at age 12, and his daughter is working on her first story at the same age.

In 1993, David resigned from Innovation to launch Glass House Graphics, an international studio/agency for illustrators, writers, painters, and digital designers, where he currently holds the position as a Global Talent Supervisor.

Today, he oversees three offices in Brazil and one in Manila, coordinating art from a roster of nearly 100 revolving talents worldwide -- to produce art and digital graphics for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Chaos! Comics, Vertigo Comics, Wildstorm, Ballantine Books, Universal Studios, Twentieth Television Services, New Line Cinema, Full Moon Entertainment, Toyota, xxxspacegirls.com, loribenson.com, and other companies. He teaches seminars throughout the U.S. at Conventions and art schools, Brazil, and the Philippines on a regular basis, and is responsible for launching the professional careers of more than 100 artists in the past 19 years.^{[verification needed]}

His talent roster includes Ed Benes, Joe Bennett, Mike Deodato, Sandu Florea, Hector Gomez, Joe Pimentel, Cliff Richards, Al Rio, Luke Ross, Carlo Pagulayan, Wilson Tortosa and many others. David has just been chosen as Consulting Publisher of MAD Magazine in Brazil.

Presently, David is married to a Filipina, and they reside in Wheeling, West Virginia.