Sophie Campbell

Sophie Campbell^[1] (known on social media as Moon Calfe) is a comic writer and artist known for her indie comics such as Wet Moon and Shadoweyes, and for her art on the Jem and the Holograms comics, as well as IDW Publishing's ongoing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series. She primarily writes and draws characters who are adolescent or young adult women, including various races, body types, sexual orientations, and abilities. In 2019, she became the lead writer of IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, for which she designed the character Jennika.^[2][3]

Sophie Campbell
Area(s)	Writer, Artist
Pseudonym(s)	Moon Calfe
Notable works	The Abandoned Mountain Girl Wet Moon Shadoweyes Jem and the Holograms Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Official website

Career

Campbell is the creator of several graphic novels, including The Abandoned,^[4] Mountain Girl, Shadoweyes, Wet Moon, and Water Baby.

She has also done art for comics publishers. In 2008, she drew the story "The Hollows" for the first issue of the DC/Vertigo comic House of Mystery written by Bill Willingham. Beginning in 2012 she drew a run of Image Comics' Glory series written by Joe Keatinge. She drew issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for IDW, and in March 2015 she became the artist for their new Jem and the Holograms series written by Kelly Thompson. Her artwork has been praised for affording dignity to all the characters she draws.^[5]

From June 2009 to March 2013, she was co-host on AudioShocker's "A Podcast with Ross and Nick", followed by "Everything Blows with Ross and Nick".^[6]

In January 2020, Campbell took over as both writer and artist of the mainline IDW TMNT book.^[7]

Campbell accepted a deal from Substack in August, 2021 to work on Shadoweyes For Good, the sequel to Shadoweyes. The graphic novel will be available on the site to subscribers.^[8]

Personal life

Campbell is a transgender woman and began her career under her former name. In March 2015 she publicly announced she had changed her name to Sophie, explaining via Twitter that she had been transitioning for the previous year.^[9]

Bibliography

As writer

IDW Publishing

• Mothra: Queen of the Monsters #1-4
• Jem: The Misfits #3
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #109-112, 118-127, 129-149

DC Comics

• Supergirl (2025) #5

As artist

DC Comics

• Birds of Prey #12
• DC Pride 2021
• DC Pride: Uncovered
• House of Mystery #1: "The Hollows" (with Bill Willingham, Short story, Vertigo, 2008)
• Milestone Forever (pin-up, DC Comics, 2010)

IDW Publishing

• Free Comic Book Day 2015: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Prelude To Vengeance
• Free Comic Book Day 2022: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series: Leonardo (artist, IDW, 2012)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villains Micro-Series: Alopex (artist, IDW, 2013)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (artist, #29-32, IDW, 2013–2014)
• Jem and the Holograms (artist; #1-6, Outrageous Annual 2015, 11-16; IDW; 2015)

Image Comics

• Glory (artist, #23-34, Image Comics, 2012)
• Hack/Slash (contributing artist, Image Comics, 2008–2009)

Mirage Publishing

• Raphael: Bad Moon Rising (covers only, Mirage Publishing, 2007)
• Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (pin-up, Mirage Publishing, 2006)

Oni Press

• Resurrection V2 (back-up story, Oni Press, 2010)
• Spooked (with Antony Johnston, graphic novel, Oni Press, 168 pages, February 2004, ISBN 1-929998-79-1)
• Too Much Hopeless Savages! (Oni Press, 2003)

As writer and artist

DC Comics

• Batman Black and White #2: "All Cats are Grey" (DC Comics, 2021)
• Supergirl (2025) #1-4
• Superman: Red and Blue #6
• Water Baby (graphic novel, Minx, 2008)

IDW Publishing

• Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions #1
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #101-105, 113-117, 128, 150
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Armageddon Game - The Alliance #4

Oni Press

• Wet Moon (graphic novels, Oni Press, from 2005)

Other publishers

• Shadoweyes (graphic novel, Slave Labor Graphics, 2010)
• Shadoweyes in Love (graphic novel, Slave Labor Graphics, 2011)
• Fraggle Rock v2 #2 (with Tim Beedle, comic book, Archaia Studios Press, 2011)
• The Abandoned (graphic novel, Tokyopop, 2006)