Thomas Campi
Thomas is an Art Director, Character Designer, Comic Artist with experience in developing original characters and stories across multiple media.
He designed characters for Princess Bento, Flying Bark, Passion Pictures, Studio Arcobaleno, Studio Campidelli, Unlisted, Squint/Opera among others. His comics have been published in more than 14 countries by international publishers such as Sergio Bonelli Editore, Dupuis, Delcourt, Dargaud, MacMillan, Walker, NBM, SelfMadeHero, amongst others.Thomas is currently the Character Design Lead at Princess Bento, the animation studio created in Melbourne in collaboration with Bento Box, working on a 2D TV series produced by Sony.
He's also the Art Director and only Character Designer for the award-winning studio Flying Bark Production and their animated TV series based on Academy Award® Shaun Tan’s book Tales from Outer Suburbia.
Some of the most recent collaborations are the character design for two unannounced animated feature films directed by Christian DeVita ( PJ Masks director ), and he's just starting to work as character designer on the animated 2D feature 'Two weeks with the queen' , now in pre-production for Flying Bark and Sixtyfoursixty.
“Les Petites Gens” his first graphic novel, earned him a solo exhibition at the Comic Art Museum in Brussels. The graphic novels Les Larmes De Seigneur Afghan ((Dupuis, 2015)), written by the reporter Pascale Bourgaoux and writer Vincent Zabus, and Macaroni! (Dupuis, 2016), scripted by Zabus, have been both awarded the Cognito Prize as Best Documentary Graphic Novel at the Belgium Book Fair in Brussels.
He has also created in collaboration with Vincent Zabus the graphic novel “Magritte-This is not a biography” originally published in French by Lelombard with the support of the Magritte Foundation. The book was presented at the Magritte Museum in Brussels in front of the press.
Thomas has just completed ta new graphic novel for Dargaud coming out in June 2025. He's currently collaborating with Fluide Glacial magazine on a series of short comics written by Zidrou and starting a new graphic novel written by Joann Sfar, comic artist and director of animated films such as The Rabbi's cat and Little Vampire.
AWARDS
2014 - SPECTRUM FANTASTIC ART GOLD AWARD - COMICS ( USA )
2014 - PRIX COGNITO, BEST DOCUMENTARY GRAPHIC NOVEL PER “LES LARMES DU SEIGNEUR AFGHAN” ( BELGIUM )
2015 - LEDGER AWARD , EXCELLENCE IN AUSTRALIAN COMICS PER“GENTE CORRIENTE” ( AUSTRALIA )
2014 - NOMINATION AL FRANCE INFO AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY GRAPHIC NOVEL CON “LES LARMES DU SEIGNEUR AFGHAN” ( FRANCE )
2016 - PRIX COGNITO, BEST DOCUMENTARY GRAPHIC NOVEL PER ”MACARONI!” (BELGIUM)
2018 - BEST INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC NOVEL AT THE HEROES COMIC CON 2018 FOR “JOE SHUSTER - UNA HISTORIA A LA SOMBRA DE SUPERMAN” ( SPAIN )
2018 - GOLD LIEFELD AS BEST EUROPEAN COMIC FOR “ JOE SHUSTER - UNA HISTORIA A LA SOMBRA DE SUPERMAN” ( SPAIN )
2018 - PREMIO BOSCARATO-BEST ITALIAN ARTIST AT TREVISO COMIC BOOK
FESTIVAL ( ITALY )
