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Mothra, Queen of the Monsters #1 (IDW, March 2025) cover B by Sophie Campbell
The ‘Queen of the Monsters’ will star in a five-issue miniseries next year.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 40th Anniversary Comics Celebration (IDW, July 2024) variant cover by Sophie Campbell
Out this week: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #150 (IDW, $9.99):
Sophie Campbell’s long, epic run on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comes to an end with an extra-sized issue featuring an all-star roster of artists. IDW promises the story “pays off on years of storytelling, reckoning with the history of the Turtles while also setting the stage for the next mutation of must-read TMNT comics.” That new era kicks off this summer.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #150 (IDW, April 2024) black and white variant cover by Sophie Campbell and Kevin Eastman
IDW and Paramount prepare to celebrate 40 years of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
(cover by Sophie Campell + Kevin Eastman)
‘Shadoweyes for Good’ will find new life on Sophie Campbell’s just-launched email newsletter.
The writer and artist of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles discusses what she has planned for the series and more.
I have read Sophie Campbell’s work since the beginning of her career, and as I told her, I still have a battered first edition of Wet Moon Volume 1, her debut as a writer and artist. Since that book came out in 2005, she’s worked on a number of projects. She wrote and drew the graphics novels The Abandoned and Water Baby, in addition to two Shadoweyes books. She’s drawn Glory at Image, Jem and the Holograms at IDW and many issues of TMNT. For some people, her best work, her most intimate and personal work, has been Wet Moon. Oni Press just published the seventh and final book of the series. It’s been a long time coming, but it is a beautiful and perfect ending to the series.
The book doesn’t get enough credit or attention, but I’m far from the only person who loves the books so passionately. Campbell was able to write characters, to craft mysteries with such precision, and she was able to make a series that for the most part was plotless slice-of-life stories about a few months in the lives of these characters and make them so compelling. It is an immense work and even today stands out for so many reasons. Campbell and I have spoken a few times over the years, and I wanted to mark the book’s release by talking with her again.
IDW Publishing has announced a new anthology series set in the world of Jem and the Holograms. The series will feature rotating creatives teams and two stories in each issue, starting with Kate Leth, Tana Ford and original Jem and the Holograms artist Sophie Campbell.
“Sophie, along with series regular writer Kelly Thompson, took the classic Jem and the Holograms concept, and reimagined it for a new generation of Jem fans,” said Sarah Gaydos, IDW Group Editor, in a press release. “Now, with Dimensions, the floodgates have been opened for creators new to Jem to come play in Kelly and Sophie’s arena for an all-star jam session.”
