Ross Campbell (comics)

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Ross Campbell
Area(s)	Writer, Artist
Notable works	The Abandoned Mountain Girl Wet Moon Shadoweyes
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Ross Campbell is a comic writer and artist known for his indie comics.

His Wet Moon comic series emphasizes a story-telling style that has been described as meandering and focuses on a slow, richly-layered, build-up of events. Character development is arguably the most important element of Campbell's story-building, with Wet Moon in particular utilizing character journal entries and blog posts to reveal inner thoughts not always revealed in conversations with other characters. Some events will have no in-story explanation or are not elaborated on until much later in the storyline.

Campbell's characters tend towards adolescent females or young women, a departure from many mainstream comics which usually center around male characters or a single female character often portrayed as a sex icon. In contrast, Campbell's characters are diverse including various races, body types, sexual orientations as well as differently-abled characters. One of the most notable things about Campbell's art style is this body diversity. Campbell eschews the cookie-cutter body types of mainstream comics characters and his characters embody a stylized realism where even small imperfections such as birthmarks and scars are rendered.

Biography

He is the creator of The Abandoned,^[1] Mountain Girl, Shadoweyes,^[2] Wet Moon, and Water Baby.

He drew the story "The Hollows" for the first issue of the DC/Vertigo comic House of Mystery written by Bill Willingham.

From June 2009 to March 2013, Ross was a co-host on the AudioShocker's "A Podcast with Ross and Nick". As of June 2013, he is a co-host on the podcast "Everything Blows with Ross and Nick".^[3]

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

Too Much Hopeless Savages! (Oni Press, 2003)
Spooked (with Antony Johnston, graphic novel, Oni Press, 168 pages, February 2004, ISBN 1-929998-79-1)
Wet Moon (graphic novels, Oni Press, 2005 - current)
The Abandoned (graphic novel, Tokyopop, 2006)
Raphael: Bad Moon Rising (covers only, Mirage Publishing, 2007)
House of Mystery #1: "The Hollows" (with Bill Willingham, Short story, Vertigo, 2008)
Water Baby (graphic novel, Minx, 2008)
Hack/Slash (contributing artist, Image Comics, 2008–2009)
Resurrection V2 (back-up story, Oni Press, 2010)
Milestone Forever (pin-up, DC Comics, 2010)
Shadoweyes (graphic novel, Slave Labor Graphics, 2010)
Shadoweyes in Love (graphic novel, Slave Labor Graphics, 2011)
Fraggle Rock v2 #2 (with Tim Beedle, comic book, Archaia Studios Press, 2011)
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (pin-up, Mirage Publishing, 2006)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series: Leonardo (artist, IDW, 2012)
Glory (artist, #23-34, Image Comics, 2012)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villains Micro-Series: Alopex (artist, IDW, 2013)

Notes

↑ Ross Campbell Talks The Abandoned, Newsarama, November 9, 2005
↑ Shadoweyes official website
↑ Everything Blows with Ross and Nick

References

Ross Campbell at the Grand Comics Database
Ross Campbell at the Comic Book DB

External links

Interviews

Thompson, Kelly (April 20, 2010). "Interview With Creator Ross Campbell". She Has No Head. Comic Book Resources. Retrieved June 3, 2010.

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