Graphix

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## Personal Status

### Debut

*Dimensions #1: "Catnap"*

***Graphix***, real name **Gwendolyn Snyder**, is an obsessive fan of Jem and The Holograms and friends with fellow fans Shade and Video (IDW only).

Graphix was originally intended for the *Jem and The Holograms* cartoon and went as far as a brief concept being written in the Jem Bible by Christy Marx and a doll prototype was produced by Hasbro, but the cartoon was cancelled before she could be introduced.

## Creation and Development

### IDW Continuity

In the first draft of Graphix and Shade's debut story, Sophie Campbell outlined that it was going to involve The Mongrels, characters originally intended for the scrapped animated *JEM* movie from the 1980s by Hasbro. In the draft, Graphix was going to be a groupie for The Mongrels, and that the story was about how they were a small-time band whose keyboard player had defected to Blaze's secret band, The Leatherettes, so they had a Holograms/Misfits-type rivalry because of this incident. The Mongrels were to also have "psychic music-controlling powers."

Campbell described some visual ideas she had in mind, such as using the music shapes/overlay effects similar to the Jem and The Holograms' and The Misfits' music, to illustrate their sound-related powers:

*"The music shapes were going to be squares and rectangles, like pixels, and their music would be able to physically affect people and objects, like push people through the air or punch a hole through a wall. The square-shaped music also would’ve been why Graphix had checkerboard grid-shaped makeup, since she was a Mongrels fan."*
Another visual description Campbell described was their appearance and backstory:

*"I scrapped the story before I got around to designing the characters though, but I had some loose ideas like maybe they’d have white silvery hair and I wanted the two of them to be indistinguishable, total visual copies of each other (which I realize is a twin cliche and possibly offensive to twins but it would be so fun to draw!). I also had some ideas that maybe one of the twins wasn’t real, like one is an Entropy projection or a persona who doesn’t exist, like the band Ming & Ping if you’re familiar with them."*
However, Campbell also revealed series cartoon series creator Christy Marx was uncomfortable with The Mongrels and Entropy being used in the comic as she never completed the movie passed an outline. Ultimately this lead to any plots being scrapped entirely with the characters.

In another early draft of Graphix's and Shade's debut story, Campbell described they were originally The Misfits groupies who had a vendetta against Clash and Blaze. She was going to zip around on roller-blades and likely would of ended up as a groupie for The Stingers. This draft mostly carried over into the official debut story for the characters, with Graphix and Shade instead being The Holograms groupies.

## Gallery

IDW Publishing Bio
*Dimensions #1*Early bio draft by Sophie Campbell
## References

1. ↑ **Tumblr:** Sophie Campbell about scrapped content
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 **Tumblr:** Unused Jem One-shot by Sophie Campbell (January 27th, 2017)
3. ↑ **Tumblr:** Sophie Campbell about Shade and Graphix

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