J Chris Campbell

Wide Awake Press follows up last year’s successful download comic EATS with an anthology of prehistoric tales. Go to wideawakepress.com on May 3 and download the FREE comic PILTDOWN. Join us on our journey back in time and see what stories surface when artists draw upon thier inner Cro-Magnon. Dinosaurs, Cavemen and all types of prehistroic beasts gather together for you to discover.

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ON MAY 3RD
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

This Saturday May 3rd I will be at Richard’s Comics and Collectables here in Greenville, SC.

The Greenville News did a nice little story about it the event. You can read it online here for you out of townies. Here’s a little part:

J. Chris Campbell, a local artist and creator of the comic Zig Zag , will be present as well, signing his books and drawing free sketches throughout the day, along with Tracy Yardley, current artist of Sonic the Hedgehog and Archie Comics.

Campbell grew up reading comic books and going to comic book conventions.

Seeing and talking to publishers and artists made the art form seem really accessible, he said.

He always loved to draw, but didn’t think he’d be able to make a career out of it. So he majored in marketing at Winthrop University and minored in art.

In 2000, Campbell had the opportunity to see his original comic strip, The Aging Disease, published in a local publication. One thing led to another and soon Campbell started his own publishing company, Wide Awake Press, and published an anthology of comics by local artists

See you at Richard’s!!

All the new WAP goodies for FLUKE!

Weirdotoys
By Justin Gammon

26 Robots
By J Chris Campbell

Pegbots
By J Chris Campbell

My good friend Mike Gowan has put his skills to the challenge of remixing the Radiohead song nude. Are you a musical mixing madman? Well give it a shot, download the stems from itunes and upload your completed songs to www.radioheadremix.com.
Just a plane ole music fan? Well go check out all the mixes at www.radioheadremix.com there are already 700 entries as of April 7! Listen to the all and vote on your favorite. Ok, you don’t have to listen to them all. Just listen to my buddy Mike’s and vote for him.

Go grab a copy of Students of the Unusual Giant-sized Music Special #1. “The first comic to come with it’s own music cd.” The cd is loaded with tunes from winners of a music contest including Wappie Ashley Holt and features a cd design by me! The issue also contains the first issue where Brad McGinty takes over the art for “Recalcitrant Jones and the Dead Beats.”

If you’ve got time (07min & 33sec), then for sure check out Adventure Time! If you’ve only got a few seconds then check this out and try not wanting to watch his cartoon. Rhombus! Forgive me if this is old youtubing to you, I’m only a year behind on this one. 

If you dig it hardcore then you can get a limited edition t-shirt from a series of 12 t-shirts. They’re on number 9 as of April 5.

I’ll have a new mini-comic for FLUKE on April 12,2008. It’s called 26 robots and it’s a full color collection of robots in alpabetical order. Drop me a line if you can’t make it to FLUKE and you’d like a copy. Not sure of the price right now but I’ll let you know ASAP.

You may have heard that I won a bunch of money recently. I’ve decided to share it with all my good friends and family. Just e-mail me the name you’d like to appear on the check and your home address. I’ll send you my own funded economic stimulus package.

UPDATE

As some of you figured out, this was a good ole April Fools’ Gag. I wasn’t going to do anything but then the spirit of the Fool came upon me. So I sent this image and info out to my mailing list yesterday and got a lot of responses. The most surprising to me was that all the girls that responded just wanted more information and didn’t send the information I asked for. Most of the guys who were “fooled” sent the requested info with no questions asked. Even if they thought something was fishy they still sent the info just incase. It was fun and I sent all responders this image.