It’s a rare occasion that you can use words like sweet, thoughtful, and gentle to describe a science fiction superhero story taking place in a brutal, dystopian urban battleground, but thanks to Sophie Campbell’s Shadoweyes from Iron Circus Comics, that day has arrived. Set in a cluttered and decaying city of the future, Dranac, Campbell introduces […]
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We’ve been writing quite a bit in the last year about the slow death of comics media, and one of the reasons is that it’s hard for a small, passion run site to compete with…the New Yorker? Here’s a think piece on the Jem and the Holograms comic by Stephen Burt whose bio tells us […]
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This is actually a crowd watch too as Iron Circus is kickstarting a collection of Sophie Campbell’s Shadoweyes: Volume One: Sophie Campbell began Shadoweyes in 2010. It stars Scout Montana, a slight and fragile teenage girl with dreams of defending her city as a masked vigilante. But one night, close on the heels of her […]
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Via Tumblr, the amazing painter Stephanie Hans has gone totally pink for this variant cover for IDW’s Jem comic. Written by Kelly Thompson, with art by Sophie Campbell, this comic is a nice throwback to the Jem and the Holograms most Gen Xers remember as opposed to the Pitch perfect 3 treatment the movie is […]
I haven’t started reading this one but Wet Moon, also by Sophie, is an outstanding strange comics, unlike any other, quite addictive. And her last jobs on Glory and Jem and the Holograms are the more reasons to pick this one up.
I had the chance to interview her 5 years ago for an issue of my mag focused on the DC Minx line. She really impressed by both her kindness, her doubts but also by the strenght of her convictions. That was probably one of the best exchange I ever had with a comics creator. It made me want to look after her other work (I had since only read Water Baby at Minx) and I haven’t been disapointed in the slightest. :)