Kieron Gillen

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Kieron Gillen
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Gillen at the 2011 New York Comic Con.
Nationality British
Area(s) Writer
Notable works Phonogram

Official website

Kieron Gillen is a British computer games and music journalist, as well as a comic book author. Gillen has worked for many years as a video game journalist and has, more recently, worked on various comics. He is known for his creator-owned comic Phonogram, created with artist Jamie McKelvie, published by Image Comics. Gillen recently has written numerous projects for Marvel Comics.

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Career [edit]

Journalism [edit]

Gillen has worked for publications such as PC Gamer UK, The Escapist, Amiga Power (under the pseudonym "C-Monster"), Wired, The Guardian, Edge, Games Developer, Develop, MCV, GamesMaster and PC Format, among others.

On the web, Gillen was a founder of and major contributor to the PC gaming site Rock, Paper, Shotgun and a games reviewer for Eurogamer.

He is notable for his manifesto[1] for New Games Journalism, more simply the model of new journalism applied to videogames journalism.

In 2000, Gillen became the first-ever videogames journalist to receive an award from the Periodical Publishers Association, for New Specialist Consumer Journalist.[2]

Gillen has also been invited as a guest speaker at games-industry conferences.[3][4]

Gillen is a fan of the work of videogame developer Warren Spector writing positive pieces on Spector's games, most notably the Ion Storm produced games Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows. This stemmed largely from Gillen's love of the now-defunct Looking Glass Studios, where Spector also worked.

In September 2010, Gillen declared on the website Rock, Paper, Shotgun that he was leaving full-time games journalism to better devote his time to comics writing and his contract with Marvel.[5]

Comics [edit]

Gillen has written for both print and online comics. He has worked for Warhammer Monthly and Chaos League.

Since 2003, Gillen has collaborated with artist Jamie McKelvie on a comic strip for the official PlayStation Magazine UK, entitled Save Point.

His 2006 project, described by Gillen as "my first real comic"[6] is another collaboration with McKelvie, the pop-music urban fantasy Phonogram. Veteran comics writer Warren Ellis has dubbed it "one of the few truly essential comics of 2006."[7] The first issue, published by Image Comics, went on sale in August 2006, the first series ran for six issues. The second series ran for seven issues, and was launched in December 2008. A third six-issue series, The Immaterial Girl, exploring the character of Emily Aster, is planned for 2013.[8]

On April 14, 2008 it was announced that Gillen would be collaborating with the artist Greg Scott to expand the Warren Ellis's newuniversal mythos with "a story about killing the future" set in 1959[9] and he wrote Crown of Destruction, a Warhammer Fantasy comic.[10] The Phonogram sequel "The Singles Club" started in December 2008, a series of one-shots, all about the same night.[11][12] He also got more work at Marvel with a Dazzler story and a Beta Ray Bill one-shot and mini-series.[13]

His workload at Marvel increased in late 2009. At HeroesCon it was announced he would be writing a Dark Reign tie-in with the Dark Avengers: Ares mini-series.[14] During the 2009 Chicago Comic Con it was announced that Gillen will collaborate with Steven Sanders on a new ongoing series known as S.W.O.R.D from Marvel Comics.[15][16] Gillen also had a run on Thor, following J. Michael Straczynski, from issues #604[17] to 614.[18] In late 2010 he started his own ongoing series, Generation Hope, an X-Men spin-off that leads on from the end of the "Second Coming" storyline.[19][20][21][22] Gillen continued on this title until issue #12, being followed by James Asmus.[23]

After collaborating as co-writer with Matt Fraction on Uncanny X-Men beginning with issue #531, Gillen will become sole writer of that title starting with issue #534.1 in 2011.[24] His era of the title saw the Fear Itself event, and a renumbering to #1 in the wake of Schism, and his run will end in a crossover with Avengers vs. X-Men with issue #20. Gillen will write a five-issue miniseries AvX: Consequences, dealing with the aftermath of that event.[25]

In 2011 Gillen returned to Marvel's Asgard, with a run on Journey into Mystery (the original name of Thor, continuing with its original numbering), starting with issue #622. This run finished with #645 in October 2012.

As part of the Marvel NOW relaunch, Gillen will be writing two books - Invincible Iron Man (again taking over from Fraction), with art provided by Greg Land, his penciller on Uncanny, and Young Avengers, with McKelvie.[25][26]

He has also written a series for Avatar Press called The Heat, and a series for Image called Three, about the helots of Sparta, planned for 2013.[27][28]

Bibliography [edit]

Image Comics [edit]

Marvel Comics [edit]

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Notes [edit]

  1. ^ www.alwaysblack.com home
  2. ^ PPA | PTC New Journalist of the Year Awards
  3. ^ FREE PLAY 2005
  4. ^ Animex International Festival of Animation & Computer Games | Speakers
  5. ^ Gillen, Kieron. "Half-Life: On Turning 35 And Leaving RPS". Rock, Paper Shotgun. September 30, 2010
  6. ^ Phonogram
  7. ^ "PREVIEWING TEN PAGES OF IMAGE COMICS' PHONOGRAM #1". Newsarama.
  8. ^ Gillen, Kieron (February 2, 2012). "Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl". Retrieved September 12, 2012. 
  9. ^ newuniversal 1959
  10. ^ "Kieron Gillen on Warhammer: Crown of Destruction". Newsarama. October 13, 2008
  11. ^ "SINGLES CLUB: Gillen & McKelvie on Phonogram 2". Comic Book Resources. September 22, 2008
  12. ^ "Kieron Gillen: 'Like A Particularly Geeky Grant Morrison Character'". Comics Bulletin. April 29, 2009
  13. ^ 3 conversations with Kieron Gillen: Phonogram, music and comics, Mindless Ones, August 3, 2009
  14. ^ HeroesCon: Kieron Gillen Talks "Dark Avengers: Ares". Comic Book Resources. June 21, 2009
  15. ^ George, Richard & Schedeen, Jesse (August 10, 2009). "Taking Control of S.W.O.R.D.". IGN. Retrieved 2009-08-16. 
  16. ^ Strom, Marc (August 10, 2009). "Chicago Con '09: S.W.O.R.D. Ongoing". Marvel.com. Retrieved 2009-08-16. 
  17. ^ Richards, Dave (August 24, 2009). "Kieron Gillen Talks Thor". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved October 12, 2009. 
  18. ^ Richards, Dave (May 21, 2010). "Gillen Sends "Thor" to Hell". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved July 31, 2010. 
  19. ^ Richards, Dave (July 23, 2010). "CCI EXCLUSIVE: Gillen Ushers in "Generation Hope"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved November 8, 2010. 
  20. ^ Schedeen, Jesse (July 25, 2010). "SDCC 10: The Next Gen of X-Men". IGN. Retrieved November 8, 2010. 
  21. ^ Ching, Albert (July 29, 2010). "SDCC 2010: GENERATION HOPE Gets An Ongoing in November". Newsarama. Retrieved November 8, 2010. 
  22. ^ Ching, Albert (November 3, 2010). "Kieron Gillen Introduces the Five Lights of GENERATION HOPE". Newsarama. Retrieved November 8, 2010. 
  23. ^ Richards, Dave (November 23, 2011). "ONE TO : James Asmus Part 1 - "Generation Hope"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved September 12, 2012. 
  24. ^ Richards, Dave. "Gillen Prepares His 'Uncanny' Solo". Comic Book Resources. January 18, 2011
  25. ^ a b Ching, Albert (September 4, 2012). "Leaving UNCANNY X-MEN has CONSEQUENCES for Kieron Gillen". Retrieved September 12, 2012. 
  26. ^ Richards, Dave (October 9, 2012). "Gillen & McKelvie Assemble New Volume of 'Young Avengers'". 
  27. ^ Leader, Michael (November 3, 2009). "Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie interview". Den of Geek. Retrieved November 3, 2009. 
  28. ^ Cavicchio, Nick (October 28, 2012). "Kieron Gillen Talks Creator-Owned". comicbooked.com. 

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