Alex de Campi is a British-American

People of the United States

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 music video

Music video

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 director

Music video director

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 and comics writer.

Biography

De Campi was educated at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, majoring in Art History

Art history

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. Prior to her writing career, she worked as an investment banker in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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. She currently splits her time between London

London

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 and America.

Comics

Alex de Campi is well known for her 2005

2005 in comics

- January :* January 3: Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, dies at age 87.-April:*April 13:**DC Comics announces the discontinuation of its Humanoids and 2000 A.D. titles....

 mini-series

Limited series

A limited series is a comic book series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....

 Smoke (published by IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...

, art by Igor Kordey

Igor Kordey

-Career:While his best-known work is featured in New X-Men, he has a very diverse repertoire, moving between traditional pencils and inks to fully painted panels. Because of his speed as an artist, at his peak, he was producing artwork for three or four monthly books at the same time...

), which was nominated for the Eisner Award

Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...

 for Best Limited Series, and her 2006

2006 in comics

-January:*January 1, 2006: Newsweek offer a look back at 2005 through editorial cartoons. *January 2, 2006: The Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman starts a blog to detail his creative process...

 manga series

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 Kat & Mouse (published by Tokyopop

Tokyopop

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, art by Federica Manfredi). De Campi's work falls outside the superhero

Superhero

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 genre, with Smoke being a political thriller

Political thriller

A political thriller is a thriller that is set against the backdrop of a political power struggle. They usually involve various extra-legal plots, designed to give political power to someone, while his opponents try to stop him. They can involve national or international political scenarios....

, and Kat & Mouse detailing the adventures of two mystery-solving high school students (a "CSI for tweens"); she has published work for children

Children's literature

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 (e.g. Agent Boo) and for the European market (e.g. her French language

French language

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 sci-noir series Messiah Complex).

Recent work includes the Valentine mobile comic

Mobile comic

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, which is the main focus of her Uncanny Valleygirl column at Bleeding Cool.

Films

De Campi has also ventured into filmmaking, directing a number of music videos, including the video for Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer

Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer , sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls...

's "Leeds United", the animated video for Flipron

Flipron

Flipron are a psychedelic pop band from Glastonbury, England, consisting of singer and songwriter Jesse Budd, pianist/organist Joe Atkinson, and drummer Mike Chitty...

's "Raindrops Keep Falling On The Dead" (which was featured at the 2008 Marfa Film Festival, and SXSW in 2007), The Real Tuesday Weld feat The Puppini Sisters' "Apart of Me" (shown at Soho Shorts in 2008) and for The Schema's "Those Rules You Made", which made it to number 1 music video worldwide in Youtube in August 2007. She has given a "BBC Two

BBC Two

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Masterclass" on shooting videos, for Blast (a BBC initiative to encourage creativity in young people), focusing on her October 2007 video for The Real Tuesday Weld versus the Puppini Sisters.

Videography

• "Leeds United" - Amanda Palmer (Roadrunner) Aug 2008
• "Last Words" - The Real Tuesday Weld (Six Degrees) Oct 2008
• "Guilty Pleasure" - Manda Rin (ThisisfakeDIY) Oct 2008
• "Lighthouse" - The Duloks (unsigned) - Aug 2008
• "Book of Lies" - Flipron (Tiny Dog) Jul 2008
• "These Eyes" - Martin/Towers (Northstar Records) Feb 2008
• "Jilted" - The Puppini Sisters (Universal) Jan 2008
• "(I Can't Believe I'm Not A) Millionaire" A-side and B-side versions - The Puppini Sisters (Universal) Jan 2008
• "Pretty Little Miss Dysmorphia" - Des O'Connor (unsigned) Jan 2008
• "Apart of Me" - The Real Tuesday Weld feat The Puppini Sisters (Six Degrees) Oct 2007
• "Those Rules" - The Schema (unsigned) Aug 2007
• "Why Dogs Howl at the Moon" - Thomas Truax (ST Records) Jul 2007
• "Dogboy vs Monsters" - Flipron (Tiny Dog) Mar 2007
• "Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead" - Flipron (Tiny Dog) May 2006

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