Alex de Campi


Alex de Campi is a British-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.
She's also written a two-issue Wonder Woman story, among other comics.
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."

Films

De Campi is a filmmaker, directing 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.

Works

Videography