Continuing the 20th anniversary celebration of Sophie Campbell’s landmark series Wet Moon, the second of three softcover omnibus volumes!
Return to the gothic, swampy Southern town of Wet Moon, where Cleo Lovedrop and her friends Trilby, Fern, and Audrey navigate the stress and angst of art school, crushes, growing into adulthood, and life in a place where nothing is ever quite as it seems. Cleo’s new love interest, Myrtle, seems like the only good thing in her life at times, what with family drama and a missing cat, but Myrtle often doesn’t quite seem herself and grows perhaps overly attached to Cleo, wanting her nearby at all times. When Cleo and Trilby visit a comic con, a new spark with an old friend sets fire to Cleo’s vow to not keep any more secrets . . .
This volume collects chapters 11–20 of Wet Moon: Further Realms of Fright and Drowned in Evil, now in a larger trim size with newly illustrated covers.
One of the most exciting and talented creators working in comics today, Sophie Campbell has made her mark on IDW books such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Jem and the Holograms.
A graduate of the Savannah College of Art & Design, Campbell began her career writing and drawing independent comics primarily focused on the lives of young women from all walks of life, including Wet Moon, Shadoweyes, and the Abandoned. She further proved her versatility as an artist when she began drawing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for IDW, where her kinetic action sequences and distinctive character art were a hit with fans and critics alike.
Campbell was brought on as the first artist on the IDW continuing series Jem and the Holograms, where she was responsible for the modern redesign of the characters and establishing the unique look of the comic. Her work on Jem with writer Kelly Thompson was so well received that the two were profiled by the New Yorker in 2015.
Campbell continues to work on several projects for IDW, as well as her own creator-owned independent comics.
The second volume of the collected Wet Moon doesn't break any new ground, but there's no denying that Sophie Campbell is a talented visual artist who has a flair for the nuances of youthful angst.
While the narrative of Wet Moon is essentially a soap opera, Campbell makes some sophisticated choices in building her story around shadowy elements that are only slowly explicated, and I appreciate the languid pace that echoes the excellent work of the Hernández brothers in their long-running Love and Rockets series.