Sophie Campbell Explained

Birth Name:Ross Campbell
Write:y
Art:y
Alias:Moon Calfe
Notable Works:The Abandoned
Mountain Girl
Wet Moon
Shadoweyes
Jem and the Holograms
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Website:Official website

Sophie Campbell[1] (formerly Ross Campbell, and known professionally as Moon Calfe) is a comic writer and artist known for her indie comics such as Wet Moon and Shadoweyes, and for her art on the Jem and the Holograms comics, as well as IDW Publishing's ongoing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series. She primarily writes and draws characters who are adolescent or young adult women, including various races, body types, sexual orientations, and abilities. In 2019, she became the lead writer of IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, for which she designed the character Jennika.[2] [3]

Career

Campbell is the creator of several graphic novels, including The Abandoned,[4] Mountain Girl, Shadoweyes, Wet Moon, and Water Baby.

She has also done art for comics publishers. In 2008, she drew the story "The Hollows" for the first issue of the DC/Vertigo comic House of Mystery written by Bill Willingham. Beginning in 2012 she drew a run of Image Comics' Glory series written by Joe Keatinge. She drew issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for IDW, and in March 2015 she became the artist for their new Jem and the Holograms series written by Kelly Thompson. Her artwork has been praised for affording dignity to all the characters she draws.[5]

From June 2009 to March 2013, then known as Ross Campbell, she was co-host on AudioShocker's "A Podcast with Ross and Nick", followed by "Everything Blows with Ross and Nick".[6]

In January 2020, Campbell took over as both writer and artist of the mainline IDW TMNT book.[7]

Campbell accepted a deal from Substack in August, 2021 to work on Shadoweyes For Good, the sequel to Shadoweyes. The graphic novel will be available on the site to subscribers.[8]

Personal life

Campbell is a transgender woman, and began her career under her former name. In March 2015 she publicly announced she had changed her name to Sophie, explaining via Twitter that she had been transitioning for the previous year.[9]

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

References

External links

Interviews

Notes and References

  1. mooncalfe1 . Sophie Campbell. 573958381960040449 . 6 March 2015 . deep breath okay here goes. Time to stop hiding, now's the time. I'm transgender and have been transitioning for the past year. . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305074609/https://twitter.com/mooncalfe1/status/573958381960040449 . March 5, 2016.
  2. Web site: New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's Mask Color and Weapons Revealed. Yehl. Joshua. July 15, 2019. IGN. September 5, 2023.
  3. Web site: Longtime Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan Sophie Campbell leads the five into a dynamic new era. Arrant. Chris. October 29, 2019. GamesRadar+. September 5, 2023.
  4. http://classic.newsarama.com/tokyopop/Abandoned/TheAbandoned.htm Ross Campbell Talks The Abandoned
  5. Web site: Metamorphosis – The Comics of Sophie Campbell . Tom . Shapira . . September 29, 2021 . December 4, 2021.
  6. http://www.audioshocker.com/podcasts/everything-blows Everything Blows with Ross and Nick
  7. Web site: Adams . Tim . 2019-07-24 . TMNT's Female Turtle Steps Up with New Series Writer/Artist Sophie Campbell . 2022-11-26 . CBR . en-US.
  8. Web site: Sophie Campbell Brings Back Shadoweyes For Good As A Substack Comic . Rich . Johnston . . August 26, 2021 . December 4, 2021.
  9. Web site: Jem And The Wikipedia Entry . Rich . Johnston . . March 8, 2015 . March 8, 2015.

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