| David Campiti | |
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Campiti at the Big Apple Convention, May 21, 2011. |
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| Born | May 9, 1958 Wheeling, West Virginia |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer, Editor, Publisher |
| Notable works | Innovation Publishing Glass House Graphics |
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David Campiti (born May 9, 1958)[1] is an American comic book writer, talent agent, and co-founder of Innovation Publishing. As CEO of Glass House Graphics, Campiti oversees an international studio/agency of illustrators, writers, painters, and digital designers, producing artwork for such clients as Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, TokyoPop, Del Rey Manga, Reader's Digest books, and Scholastic Books, as well as Disney, DreamWorks, Hasbro, Del Rey, St. Martins Press, and many others. He is also Producer, and a voice actor, for NIKO: THE JOURNEY TO MAGICA, an animated film coming next year from Red Giant Media.
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Campiti is the adopted son of Charles H. and Rose Campiti. He graduated from Warwood High School and West Liberty University. He began writing as a child.
Campiti sold his first writing to the Wheeling News-Register while still in college, and to such magazines as Writer's Digest and Comics Buyer's Guide soon after. He was an on-air news reporter at WKWK radio, where he also wrote, performed, and produced humorous radio commercials. He soon moved on to WANJ-FM Radio.
In 1982, Campiti moved from his hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia, to North Attleboro, Massachusetts, where he worked as chief copywriter at the L.G. Balfour Company and, later on, as writer for the United Way of New England.
During this period, Campiti began selling comic book scripts to Pacific Comics, becoming first published in comics in 1983. By 1985, Campiti was writing Superman stories in Action Comics for DC and soon went into freelance editing, packaging full-time for several years. In the mid-1980s, Campiti helped launch Amazing Comics, Wonder Comics, Pied Piper Comics, Eternity Comics, Sirius Entertainment, Malibu Comics, and other companies. In the process, he discovered and helped launch the careers of such talents as Ron Lim and Bart Sears, who began their professional careers penciling Ex-Mutants and Hero Alliance respectively.
In 1988, Campiti wrote a business proposal and raised US $400,000 to finance the launching of Innovative Corp., known publicly as Innovation Publishing. Under his 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.
Over the years, Campiti was a writer or co-writer for hundreds of comic books, often illustrated by the artists that he discovered, including Lim, Sears, Jason Pearson, and Mike Okamoto on Hero Alliance alone. His credits include Superman, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Beauty and the Beast, Dark Shadows, Hero Alliance, and many others — most recently Exposure and Jade Warriors, both for Image Comics. Campiti's son scripted his own first comic book, The Experimentals, for Caliber Comics at age 12, and his daughter, Kate, is working on her first story.
In 1993, Campiti resigned from Innovation[2] to launch Glass House Graphics, an international studio/agency for illustrators, writers, painters, and digital designers, where he currently holds the position as CEO and global talent supervisor.
Today, in addition to the U.S. office, Campiti oversees two offices in Brazil as well as offices in Manila, Jakarta, and New Delhi, coordinating art from a roster of over 120 talents worldwide to produce art and digital graphics for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Dynamite, TokyoPop, Del Rey Manga, Dabel Brothers, FOOM Studios, Funny Pages Productions, Rittenghouse Archives, Reader's Digest books, Scholastic Books, MaxCom Vietnam, Toyota, actiongirls.com, loribenson.com, Hasbro, and other companies. He also teaches seminars throughout the U.S. at conventions and art schools, Brazil,[3] and the Philippines on a regular basis, and is responsible for launching the professional careers of more than 100 artists in the past 25 years.
He is the writer of Stan Lee's How To Draw Comics, released in November 2010 from Watson-Guptill.
