Alex de Campi


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, which was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Limited Series, and her 2006 manga series Kat & Mouse. 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 ; she has published work for children and for the European market.
Her other works includes the Valentine mobile comic, which was the main focus of her column "Uncanny Valleygirl" at the comics industry website Bleeding Cool. and Grindhouse comics for Dark Horse.
In April 2015, she launched an ongoing thriller at Image Comics titled No Mercy 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.
In 2017, she co-authored with Arthur Wyatt a Judge Dredd story set the continuity of the 2012 film. This appeared in issues 386-388 of Judge Dredd Megazine.
In November 2018 it was announced by the streaming service Crunchyroll that it would produce a Blade Runner animated series entitled Blade Runner: Black Lotus, which was scheduled to be released in 2021. De Campi wrote two episodes for the series.
In 2019 de Campi released a graphic novella called Bad Girls with artist Victor Santos. Bad Girls, a crime story, takes place in the twelve hours prior to Fidel Castro's ascension to power in Cuba. The book received much acclaim and won de Campi two nominations for the Eisner Award. She received two more nominations for the Eisners in 2019 for the anthology series Twisted Romance that she published around Valentine's Day by 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 world of Jones' previous films Moon and Mute.
The British Science Fiction Association's journal Vector praised DeCampi's work Grindhouse as one of six groundbreaking science fiction works 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."

Direction of music videos

De Campi directed a number of music videos, including the video for Amanda Palmer's "Leeds United", the animated video for Flipron's "Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead", The Real Tuesday Weld feat The Puppini Sisters' "Apart of Me" and for The Schema's "Those Rules You Made". She has given a "BBC Two Masterclass" on shooting videos, for Blast, focusing on her October 2007 video for The Real Tuesday Weld versus The Puppini Sisters.

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.
Her second prose novel, Heartbreak Incorporated, was released in the summer of 2021.

Works

Videography

  • "Leeds United" – Amanda Palmer Aug 2008
  • "Last Words" – The Real Tuesday Weld Oct 2008
  • "Guilty Pleasure" – Manda Rin Oct 2008
  • "Lighthouse" – The Duloks – Aug 2008
  • "Book of Lies" – Flipron Jul 2008
  • "These Eyes" – Martin/Towers Feb 2008
  • "Jilted" – The Puppini Sisters Jan 2008
  • " Millionaire" A-side and B-side versions – The Puppini Sisters Jan 2008
  • "Pretty Little Miss Dysmorphia" – Des O'Connor Jan 2008
  • "Apart of Me" – The Real Tuesday Weld feat The Puppini Sisters Oct 2007
  • "Those Rules" – The Schema Aug 2007
  • "Why Dogs Howl at the Moon" – Thomas Truax Jul 2007
  • "Dogboy vs Monsters" – Flipron Mar 2007
  • "Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead" – Flipron May 2006