Jonathan Hickman

Jonathan Hickman
Born	South Carolina
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Penciller, Inker, Letterer, Colorist
Notable works	The Nightly News Pax Romana Secret Warriors Fantastic Four S.H.I.E.L.D Ultimates
Official website

Jonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for the Image Comics series The Nightly News and currently writes FF (previously Fantastic Four), and S.H.I.E.L.D for Marvel Comics.

Career

He is the creator of The Nightly News, published under Image, and has also worked on Marvel's Legion of Monsters, on the story N'Kantu, the Living Mummy: MustDie/EatSoul.

He has also designed covers for Virgin Comics, most significantly Andy Diggle's Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper and Garth Ennis' Seven Brothers. He also wrote "The Core" for Top Cow's Pilot Season in 2008.

He has worked on other series under Image: Pax Romana, Red Mass for Mars, with Ryan Bodenheim, Transhuman, with J. M. Ringuet, The Red Wing, and an ongoing series titled Plus.

He has collaborated with Brian Michael Bendis and editor Tom Brevoort on the past Marvel ongoing series, entitled Secret Warriors It follows Nick Fury and a group of superpowered operatives as they undertake espionage operations in the wake of Secret Invasion. Stefano Caselli will be the artist; and also collaborated with artists Dale Eaglesham and Steve Epting on Fantastic Four and with Sean Chen on the limited series Dark Reign: Fantastic Four. He has also written the S.H.I.E.L.D. limited series for Marvel.

Hickman mentioned at his website, Pronea, that he would write a column for comic book blog and podcast, iFanboy, at some point in the future. This post was reinforced on episode #119 of iFanboy, and again on February 12, 2008 with the launch of their new website. On February 12, 2008 the first edition of Hickman's column, "Concentric Circles" was released.

Bibliography

Image Comics

Titles published by Image include:

• The Nightly News #1-6 (script and art, 2006-2007) collected as The Nightly News (tpb, 184 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-5824-0766-5)
• Popgun vol.1: "Black Circle White: The Recycle Soul Project" (script and art, anthology graphic novel, 455 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-5824-0824-6)
• Pax Romana #1-4 (script and art, 2007-2008) collected as Pax Romana (tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 1--5824-08734)
• Transhuman #1-4 (with J. M. Ringuet, 2008) collected as Transhuman (tpb, 120 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-5824-0922-6)
• A Red Mass for Mars #1-4 (with Ryan Bodenheim, 2008-2010) collected as Red Mass for Mars (tpb, 120 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-5824-0923-4)
• Comic Book Tattoo: "1000 Oceans" (script and art, anthology graphic novel, 480 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-5824-0965-X)
• Red Wing #1-4 (with Nick Pitarra, 2011)
• Feel Better Now (script and art, graphic novel, 2012)

Marvel Comics

Titles published by Marvel include:

• Legion of Monsters: Satana: "The Living Mummy" (script and art, one-shot, 2007) collected in Legion of Monsters (hc, 280 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2754-2)
• Secret Warriors (with Brian Michael Bendis, Stefano Caselli, Ed McGuinness, Alessandro Vitti, Gianluca Gugliotta and Mirko Colak) collected as:
  • Nick Fury, Agent of Nothing (collects #1-6 and DR: New Nation one-shot, hc, 184 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3999-0; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3864-1)
  • God of Fear, God of War (collects #7-10 and DR: The List one-shot, hc, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4306-8; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3865-X)
  • Wake the Beast (collects #11-16, hc, 160 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4757-8; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4758-6)
  • Last Ride of the Howling Commandos (collects #17-19 and Siege tie-in one-shot, hc, 112 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4759-4; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4760-8)
  • Night (collects #20-24, hc, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4802-7; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4803-5)
  • Wheels within Wheels (collects #25-28, hc, 112 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5814-6; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5815-4)
  • Omnibus (collects #1-28 and the one-shots, hc, 904 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6333-6)
• Astonishing Tales v2 #1-6: "Bobby and Sam in Mojoworld" (with Nick Pitarra, 2009)
• Fantastic Four:
  • Fantastic Four:
    • Dark Reign: Fantastic Four (tpb, 128 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3908-7) collects:
      • "The Bridge" (with Sean Chen, in Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #1-5, 2009)
      • "Doctor Doom: ...and I'll Get the Land" (with Adi Granov, in Dark Reign: The Cabal, one-shot, 2009)
    • Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman vol.1 (hc, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4317-3; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3688-6) collects:
      • "Solve Everything" (with Dale Eaglesham, in #570-572, 2009)
      • "Adventures on Nu-World" (with Neil Edwards, in #573, 2010)
      • "Days of Future Franklin!" (with Neil Edwards, in #574, 2010)
    • Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman vol.2 (hc, 112 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4716-0; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4541-9) collects:
      • "Prime Elements" (with Dale Eaglesham, in #575-578, 2010)
    • Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman vol.3 (hc, 112 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4717-9; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4718-7) collects:
      • "The Future Foundation" (with Neil Edwards, in #579, 2010)
      • "The Frank-tastic Four" (with Neil Edwards, in #580, 2010)
      • "When Everything's Lost, the Battle is Won... Because of All These Things I've Done" (with Neil Edwards, in #581-582, 2010)
    • Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman vol.4 (hc, 184 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4891-4; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5143-5) collects:
      • "Three" (with Steve Epting, Nick Dragotta and Mark Brooks, #583-588, 2010-2011)
    • Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman: Forever (hc, 184 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6152-X) collects:
      • "Forever" (with Steve Epting, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Leinil Francis Yu and Farel Dalrymple, #600-604, 2011-2012)
      • "The Fantastic Four of 3030" (with Steve Epting, in #605, 2012)
  • FF:
    • FF by Jonathan Hickman vol.1 (hc, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5144-9; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5145-6) collects:
      • "The Club" (with Steve Epting, in #1, 2011)
      • "Doom Nation" (with Steve Epting, in #2, 2011)
      • "Whatever Happened to All Those Reeds?" (with Steve Epting, in #3, 2011)
      • "The Beating of Drums, The Sound of War" (with Barry Kitson, in #4-5, 2011)
    • FF by Jonathan Hickman vol.2 (hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5769-4; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5770-0) collects:
      • "The War of Four Cities" (with Greg Tocchini, Steve Epting and Barry Kitson, in #6-11, 2011)
    • FF by Jonathan Hickman vol.3 (hc, 120 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6312-3) collects:
      • "All Hope Lies in Doom" (with Juan Bobillo, in #12-15, 2012)
      • "The Fallout" (with Juan Bobillo, in #16, 2012)
• Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu: "Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu and Deadpool in: The Annual Race to Benefit Various and Sundry Evil Organizations and Also the Homeless. Now with Beer and Hot Dogs" (with Kody Chamberlain, one-shot, 2009)
• S.H.I.E.L.D. (with Dustin Weaver, Nick Pitarra, Zachary Flagg, Kevin Mellon and Gabriel Hernandez, 2010-...) collected as:
  • Architects of Tomorrow (collects v1 #1-6, hc, 192 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4894-9; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4422-6)
• Ultimate Comics: Thor #1-4 (with Carlos Pacheco, 2010-2011) collected as UC:T (hc, 112 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5187-7; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5188-5)
• Ultimate Comics: Fallout #2-6 (with Bryan Hitch, Steve Kurth, Carlo Pagulayan, Salvador Larroca, Billy Tan and Mitch Breitweiser, 2011) collected in UC:F (hc, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5912-6; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5913-4)
• Ultimate Comics: Ultimates (with Esad Ribic and Brandon Peterson, 2011-...) collected as:
  • Volume 1 (hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5717-4; tpb, 2012, ISBN 1-8465-3504-2)
  • Volume 2 (hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5719-0)
• Ultimate Comics: Hawkeye #1-4 (with Rafa Sandoval, 2011) collected as UC:H (hc, 112 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6227-5)

Other publishers

Titles published by various American publishers include:

• Gamekeeper #2 (cover only, Virgin, 2007)
• 7 Brothers tpb (cover only, Virgin, 2007)
• Voodoo Child #3 (cover only, Virgin, 2007)
• Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma: Panchatantra #4 (cover only, Virgin, 2008)
• Pilot Season: The Core (with Kenneth Rocafort, one-shot, Top Cow, 2008) collected in Pilot Season 2008 (tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-6070-6043-4)
• Drafted #11 (cover only, Devil's Due, 2008)
• Cages (cover only, Insomnia, 2009)

Awards

• 2008: Nominated for "Best Limited Series" Eisner Award (for Nightly News).
• 2011: Nominated for "Best Continuing or Limited Series" Harvey Award (for Fantastic Four)

References

• Jonathan Hickman at the Grand Comics Database
• Jonathan Hickman at the Comic Book DB

External links

• Official website
• Jonathan Hickman's Resources at Howtomakecomics.net
• iFanboy, home of "Concentric Circles" column

Interviews

• podcast interview with Hickman on Pax Romana
• podcast interview with Hickman on Transhuman
• Audio interview with Hickman about Nightly News and his forthcoming works
• Podcast Interview with Hickman on Nightly News, Secret Warriors, Fantastic Four and his upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. project