Jeffery Scott Campbell (born April 12, 1973) is an American comic book artist. He was initially known professionally as Jeffery Scott, but is best known as J. Scott Campbell. He rose to fame as an artist for Wildstorm Comics, though he has since done work for Marvel Comics (most notably as a cover artist on The Amazing Spider-Man), and the video game industry.
Early life
Jeffery Scott Campbell was born in East Tawas, Michigan, though he has no memories of that city, as his family moved when he was very young to Denver, Colorado, which he regards as his home. He has a younger sister, who is a digital architect who fills out the orders for Campbell's e-commerce website, and a younger brother who is a musician. whose style would greatly influence Campbell's own. Campbell, explains, "I immediately went nuts over the book. That book had such detail. The art was fantastic. It just started me going. It just turned me around. All of a sudden I wanted to do this, and I felt I could." Campbell began collecting, purchasing books based on the art, not the title, which he says made his collecting habits somewhat difficult at times. marking his first nationally published work. and Stormwatch #0.
That same year, Campbell provided a variant incentive cover for Justice League of America (vol. 2) #0, the first issue of Brad Meltzer's run on the title.
In 2007, Campbell illustrated the covers to the Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash six-issue limited series.
Marvel Comics
right|thumb|Campbell at the 2017 [[New York Comic Con]]
At the WizardWorld 2006 Comic Convention held in Los Angeles, Marvel Comics announced that Campbell signed an exclusive contract with the company, and to work on a Spider-Man series with writer Jeph Loeb. Between 2001 and 2013 Campbell did numerous covers for The Amazing Spider-Man, including issues 30 - 35 in 2001, 50 - 52 and 500 in 2003, and seven issues done sporadically from issues 601 in 2009 and 700 in 2013. His cover to issue #30 was used as the cover of the 2003 trade paperback that collected issues 30 and 31.
Campbell's "Apartment Series" and Iron Man
Campbell's cover for The Amazing Spider-Man #601 is notable for being the first in Campbell's "Apartment Series", which depict Spider-Man or one of his love interests or supporting characters sitting in a sofa in their apartment in a "slice of life" scene, usaully with Spider-Man himself seen in a window swinging through the city. Subsequent covers that were part of this series included The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1 and #2 in 2015, Black Cat #1 in 2019 (which depicts Felicia Hardy) and 2025's Ultimate Spider-Man #4, which depicts an alternate version of Spider-Man/Peter Parker, his wife, Mary Jane, and their two children. When asked about his approach to Spider-Man, Campbell said, "The Spider-Man universe is maybe the most 'human' to me in the super hero realm. By that, I mean Peter Parker, MJ, and Gwen. They're more relatable to us because they're grounded, compared to, let's say, the X-Men or the Avengers. I think we inherently connect more with characters we can relate to or imagine interacting with in our own lives." In 2019, Sideshow Collectibles made a collectible maquette out of Campbell's cover to Renew Your Vows #1.
The image to Amazing #601 became fodder for memes, and later, charges of sexism. In October 2016, the head editor of G33k Pop, who went by the online name CalebH/Discordia said of the image: