#David Campiti

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Hero Alliance by Stuart Immonen

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Forbidden Planet #1 (May 1992) by Innovation

Written by David Campiti, drawn by Daerick Gross. Includes essay "A Beacon in the Galaxy" by Steve "Mr. Movie" Friedman.

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GLASS HOUSE GRAPHICS OFFERS 

CLASSIC COMIC BOOK SPINNER RACKS

David Campiti of Glass House Graphics is offering a new 40-pocket comic spinner rack that disassembles and can be transported to conventions in a wheeled carrying case.  The new design, currently on Kickstarter, is approximately 70" high on a 12-inch footprint.  It features wide pockets over seven inches wide, which can hold bagged-and-boarded comics and graphic novels up to Golden Age size.

The comic spinner is available in white or black, with four topper graphics: two each of "COMICS!  COLLECT 'EM ALL!" and "THE BEST IN COMICS."

Because the racks can be disassembled for shipping, delivery costs have been eliminated for U.S. backers, and are included in the $399 price ($379 for early bird orders).  Additional options include the wheeled carrying case for an additional $40, variant toppers with "HEY, KIDS! COMICS" and "WORLD'S GREATEST COMICS" for $15, and customized topper for $25.  

Discounted two-packs are available, and a publisher bundle of ten racks with a customized header featuring the publisher logo for $2,999 including U.S. freight is also offered.

Here's the direct link:

tinyurl.com/spinner-rack

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Book Review: The Discworld Graphic Novels by Terry Pratchett

Author: Terry Pratchett Title: The Discworld Graphic Novels: The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic Publication Info: New York : Harper, c2008. The Colour of Magic Originally published: Innovative, 1991 Illustrated by Steven Ross Adapted by Scott Rockwell Lettered by Vickie Williams Edited by David Campiti The Light Fantastic Originally published: Innovative, 1992 Adapted by Scott…

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Review: "Star-Spangled Squadron" Issue 1 (Ascendant Comics)

Review: "Star-Spangled Squadron" Issue 1 (Ascendant Comics) | #comics #indiecomics #superheroes #scifi #comicbooks

What started in 2020 as a table top role-playing game, the Ascendant Universe has now graduated to the esteemed medium of comic books. Do you sense sarcasm? Maybe. Certainly modern comics have fallen far from their heights decades ago, but thankfully for you, dear reader, Ascendent Comics’ first book Star-Spangled Squadron (which is now crowdfunding via Indiegogo here) isn’t trying to be like a…

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From my dear friend David Campiti 😁 https://www.instagram.com/p/CdGDDwTuect/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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So, this showed up today, making this a very cool day indeed. This is (are) my copies of the Banzai Girl graphic novel from Glass House House Graphics, on which I had a hand doing prepress and layout duties. Thank you so much to my good friend David Campiti for the opportunity to have participated in this amazingly cool project. From one Stan to another, thanks much! https://www.instagram.com/p/B7mEhGqBIW5/?igshid=1t9kykrowqanc

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Stay Home Comic Con Is Back!

Stay Home Comic Con Is Back!

  After a great first edition, people were asking for more. That’s why the organisation behind Stay Home Comic Con decided it was time for a Summer edition. Unfortunately conventions are still not allowed at the moment. That’s why this edition will also be online which you can safely attend from your home.

“The success of our first edition felt great. A whole weekend long we weren’t not just…

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Stay Home Comic Con Is Back For Round Two

Stay Home Comic Con Is Back For Round Two

With comic conventions canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many have gone virtual and new ones have cropped up. Stay Home Comic Con debuted in March, bringing fans and creators together. Now it’s gearing up for a summer edition this weekend.

Gladys P. Nut, the mind behind Stay Home Comic Con says:

The success of our first edition felt great. A whole weekend long we weren’t not just artists,…

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Time isn't out on your ability to get BANZAI GIRL Volume 2 VARIANT COVER Graphic Novel -- Signed & Numbered

Time isn’t out on your ability to get BANZAI GIRL Volume 2 VARIANT COVER Graphic Novel — Signed & Numbered

David Campiti https://banzai-girl-volume-2.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders Banzai Girl hunted by the giant killer robot! In answer to popular demand, Jinky has created a variant cover edition of her BANZAI GIRL Volume 2 Graphic Novel — boasting an enhanced photo cover created by Jason Perkins. Strictly limited to 100 signed-and-numbered copies!

With Every Post you Share on Social Media we want You…

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Time of Legends: Joan of Arc is a miniature featuring board game from Mythic Games successfully funded on Kickstater (with the Late Pledge still open). The game features a slightly different reality set during the Hundred Years’ War where all the myths and legends thought to be real are. In the game you control an army of miniatures that represents heroes, knights, and peasants that you’ll use to achieve your goals.

The game publisher is teaming up with Dabel Brothers to bring the game to comics! And since it’s “Joan of Arc,” it’s only appropriate that an all-female team is leading the artistic direction of the series. Veteran comic book writer and Vice President of Creative Development at Dabel Brothers, David Campiti, will write the first volume in the series.

  (via Graphic Policy)

Mythic Games Teams with the Dabel Brothers to Turn Time of Legends: Joan of Arc from Board Game to Comic #comics #boardgames Time of Legends: Joan of Arc is a miniature featuring board game from Mythic Games successfully funded on…

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Bong Dazo, Comic Book Artist, Dead at 53

Bong Dazo, an artist who drew Deadpool and Dark Horse's KOTOR series among other comics, has died aged 53.

[image width=308 align=left caption=”Bong Dazo (left) with David Campiti”]http://multiversitystatic.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/07/Bong-Dazo-David-Campiti.jpg[/image] Bleeding Cool reportsthat Filipino comic book artist Bong Dazo (real name Angelo Ty Dazo) passed away on Friday. Dazo died of liver cancer on June 29, 2018, less than two weeks after his 53rd birthday. He is survived by his wife…

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The new logo for Nerdy Book Services!!! Thank you David Campiti and Glasshouse Graphics for doing a fantastic job!! The Literary Vixen is up next!! Love seeing Laura Trujillo image in the making!!! #GraphicDesign #BookCovers #Animation #ColoringBooks #Comics #GraphicNovels <3 Gladys #XOXOtheNerdGirl #NerdyBookServices

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OLD FRIENDS

When I entered Warwood High School, ninth grade, most of the kids I was friends with at Corpus Christi School, like Mark Michaels and Christine Galloway and Tom Schroeder, went off to Wheeling Central High. So I felt like a fish out of water until I connected with the likes of Mike Darby and, around the same time, this funny smartass kid Scott Rockwell, who sat in the back of Spanish class and made a smart remark to me about collecting comics.

It turned out Scott wasn’t berating me for it; he and his brother Doug were comics fans, too. We joined the Journalism Class together and were soon contributing to a lot of the school newspaper. We became the best of friends, and I spent chunks of nearly every day hanging out with them in the basement of his home. We shared comics to read, had similar joys and similar complaints, and we wanted to become comic book professionals — him drawing, me writing.

I recall trying to get a portfolio of original scripts and art off to Marvel one summer day. We were pedaling our bikes as fast as we could to get to the post office before 5 pm. It was like life-or-death important we get that thing out to them that day. We shipped original art; it never occurred to us to mail photocopies. Scott crashed his bike into a parked car. “Go on! Go on!” He yelled, waving me to get to the Seventh Street Post Office in time. The portfolio was rightfully rejected; we weren’t ready. So we wrote fan letters, many of them quite critical of the sub-standard comics we read. We knew they could be better, but we at the time hadn’t lived our ives enough to do them better.

In 1975, I had my driver’s license, and Scott, Doug, and I went to our first comics convention — PittCon! — run by Ben Pondexter. Other people sharing our interests! Plus we’d get to meet real, working comics professionals whose names we’d recognized! It was a heady experience.

As we wandered through an art display, a canny mix of fan and professional artwork, we saw Marvel editor-in-chief Marv Wolfman talking to a tall young kid with a strong Pittsburgh accent, who looked quite a bit like a teen John Travolta. “Marv! My brother Marc drew this! Whaddaya think? Whaddaya think?” He was gesturing toward a pair of pieces of art — one was a Tarzan illustration, the other a published Marvel Spider-Man page.

Marv stroked his beard and said, “Well, it’s not too bad,” he said. “Spider-Man’s perspective’s a little off and the faces could be better. A bit more work, and he might be professional some day.”

The tall kid burst out with the loudest, most infectious laugh I’d ever heard. “Marv! My brother drew the Tarzan page. You just critiqued a PUBLISHED Sal Buscema Marvel Team-Up page!”

As Marv ducked away, embarrassed, we stepped up and introduced ourselves. The kid was David Lawrence, with whom Scott and I developed lifelong friendships. We sent each other comics and scripts we wrote, and Scott drew dozens of cartoons -- all in-jokes -- on manila envelopes that we mailed practically every month.

There’s a picture somewhere, maybe in Scott’s files, of him and me posing with Stan Lee at West Virginia University in ’78, where Cynthy Wood took a picture for us. As the photo was shot, Scott was saying to Stan, “Smile, and look as much like our Uncle as you can.”

Scott and Dave and I made a vow, which ever of us got into the comics business first, we would bring the others with us. A few years later, me being the most headstrong, I got in first. I brought Dave and Scott with me. David Lawrence developed the mega-popular series The Ex-Mutants and its spin-offs, and I brought in Scott as a designer, art director, writer, cover artist, and colorist. He was a talented guy.

Scott and Dave lived together for some months while we packaged comics for various publishers from my Campiti & Associates office in Warwood, WV. In later years they wrote stories together. We all wrote stories together, in fact.

When I launched Innovation Publishing in ‘88, of course both Scott and David were a part of it. Scott was briefly art director before becoming a writer and colorist for the company; I even hired Scott’s Dad to color for me. You’ll see Robert Rockwell’s name in the credits of some early Innovation books. Scott and I wrote issues of Dark Shadows together. Scott and Dave wrote issues of various Ex-Mutants and The Lunatic Fringe and Overture and other projects together. Some of the things David Lawrence wrote, like Hero Alliance scripts, Scott colored those. Although Dave lived in Pittsburgh and Scott and I lived in Wheeling — a good 75 minutes away with a good tail wind — we never really seemed to be apart.

When I left Innovation in ’93 to launch Glass House Graphics, Scott Rockwell and David Lawrence were both was part of it. Dave has been writing projects through Glass House on and off for decades, officially becoming a movie screenwriter and a New York Times best-selling author in the process — in fact, he’s writing a new project now.

Scott wrote and colored projects with me until about 1995, when his life changed via a gal he’d met at Innovation. He drove me to the airport on his birthday on July 13, 1995 for a trip I was making to Brazil. It was the last time I saw Scott, though he called me once a few years later.

When his favorite book series The Lord of the Rings came out as movies, I sent him a card with a Ring of Power engraved in Elvish; I sent him an invitation to my wedding in 2001. He did not respond or attend. I learned he had essentially become a hermit, rarely if ever venturing out of his home and working mainly on paintings for private commissions to pay the bills. Even David Lawrence had not seen Scott face-to-face in years, as hard as Dave tried to keep in touch with Scott.

He had almost no internet presence, so I tried my best via mutual friends to stay current on his life. Every time I returned to Wheeling to visit family, I’d bring along a stack of books I’d written — such as Stan Lee’s How To Draw Comics, which I wrote to sound like Stan for 240 pages; I figured Scott would appreciate that. But I could never manage to connect with him, despite the best efforts of David Lawrence and of Jeffrey Burton, another great and mutual artist friend since our college years.

I was scheduled to fly back to Wheeling over this past weekend to attend my high school reunion and hoped to try again to see Scott; I had to cancel the trip last minute. Had I gone, I would have still been in Wheeling today.

And today I learned that Scott Rockwell died of a massive coronary at 61 years old.

We did not see each other in decades, but I will cherish those many years of friendship, of humor, of deep affection and camaraderie that we shared, from kids who thought we knew it all to established professionals who did finally know most of it.

I would never have tried to become a professional writer, or book packager, or a publisher, or even an agent, if Scott Rockwell hadn’t been there at the beginning. He inspired me; I brought him along into the business. We shared many joys and sorrows and ups and downs.

I missed you for the past 20 years, and I’ll miss you even more now. I think you really would’ve liked my books, Scott. And I think you would’ve adored meeting my wife Meryl, telling me I finally got it right.

And David Lawrence? You better stick around a fucking long time, goddamn it.

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"Yesterday's" Comic> Quantum Leap #1

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic> Quantum Leap #1

In this issue Sam leaps into my drawing mannequin.

Quantum Leap #1

Innovative Corp (Innovation; September, 1991)

“First There Was A Mountain, Then There Was No Mountain, Then There Was”

WRITER: George Broderick, Jr.

ARTIST: Mark Jones

COLORIST: Scott Rockwell

LETTERER: Vickie Williams

EDITORS: David Campiti & George Broderick, JR.

SERIES CREATOR: Donald Bellisario

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