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The girl next door

J Scott Campbell produces pin-up art for comic covers and calendars, and with motives as pure as his pin-ups

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He’s a Marvel comic cover artist and Adam Hughes’s favourite contempora­ry pin-up creator, but J Scott Campbell’s pin-up art is infused by the playfulnes­s of his pin-up hero, Gil Elvgren. “I always aim for an approachab­le quality to my pin up, that adorable ‘girl-next-door’ look that so many of the 60s Playboy models had,” he says.

“As I’m becoming older, I’m fascinated by subtleties,” explains J Scott. “It represents a level of sophistica­tion I’m pursuing, and that really lends itself to drawing women.”

Not surprising­ly for a comic artist, this all has to do with character, with story. “The best pin-up artists are not only the ones who are more subtle, but who know how to build a story, who can hint to the reader that there’s a bit of depth to their woman,” says the illustrato­r. “It makes her all the more intriguing and attractive to the audience.”

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