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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Gillen has worked for many years as a video game journalist and has, more recently, worked on various [[comics]] |
Gillen has worked for many years as a video game journalist and has, more recently, worked on various [[comics]]. |
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===Journalism=== |
===Journalism=== |
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Revision as of 13:49, 11 September 2009
| Kieron Gillen | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Area(s) | Writer |
Notable works | Phonogram |
| http://www.kierongillen.com | |
Kieron Gillen (born 30 September, 1975) is a British computer games and music journalist, as well as a comic book author.
Biography
Gillen has worked for many years as a video game journalist and has, more recently, worked on various comics.
Journalism
Gillen has worked for a lengthy list of publications, including PC Gamer UK, The Escapist, Amiga Power, Wired, The Guardian newspaper (where he wrote the first long-form videogame review in a mainstream newspaper[1]), Edge, Games Developer, Develop, MCV, Gamesmaster and PC Format, among others.
On the web, Gillen is a founder and major contributor to the PC gaming site Rock, Paper, Shotgun and a games reviewer for Eurogamer.
He is notable for his manifesto[2] 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.[3]
Gillen has also been invited as a guest speaker at games-industry conferences.[4] [5]
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.
Comics
Gillen's career also includes the comics he writes both online and in print; 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 current 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 and ran for six issues. The second series, set to run for seven issues, launched in December 2008.
On April 14th 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[8] and he wrote Crown of Destruction a Warhammer Fantasy comic.[9] The Phonogram sequel "The Singles Club" started in December 2008, a series of one-shots.[10][11]
During the 2009 Chicago Comic Con it was announced that Gillen will collaborate with Stephen Sanders on a new ongoing series known as S.W.O.R.D from Marvel Comics.[12][13] Gillen will also be doing six issues of Thor, following J. Michael Straczynski. [14]
Bibliography
Comics work includes:
- Phonogram: Rue Britannia (with Jamie McKelvie, tpb, 144 pages, Image, June 2007, ISBN 1-582406-94-4)
- Phonogram: The Singles Club (with Jamie McKelvie]], Image Comics, 7 issues)
- newuniversal: 1959 (with Greg Scott, 48 pages, Marvel Comics, July 2008)
- Crown of Destruction (with Dwayne Harris, Boom! Studios, 2008)
- X-Men: Manifest Destiny #5 (Dazzler story, with Sarah Pichelli, 8 pages, Marvel Comics, March 2009)
- S.W.O.R.D #1- (with Stephen Sanders, Marvel Comics, November 2009, forthcoming)
- Thor #604-609 (with Billy Tan, Marvel Comics, November 2009, forthcoming)
Notes
- ^ The whodunit where you done it, The Guardian
- ^ www.alwaysblack.com home
- ^ PPA | PTC New Journalist of the Year Awards
- ^ http://www.nextwave.org.au/freeplay/05speakers.htm
- ^ Animex International Festival of Animation & Computer Games | Speakers
- ^ Phonogram
- ^ PREVIEWING TEN PAGES OF IMAGE COMICS' PHONOGRAM #1, Newsarama
- ^ newuniversal 1959
- ^ Kieron Gillen on Warhammer: Crown of Destruction, Newsarama, October 13, 2008
- ^ SINGLES CLUB: Gillen & McKelvie on Phonogram 2, Comic Book Resources, September 22, 2008
- ^ Kieron Gillen: “Like A Particularly Geeky Grant Morrison Character”, Comics Bulletin, April 29, 2009
- ^ George, Richard & Schedeen, Jesse (August 10, 2009). "Taking Control of S.W.O.R.D." IGN. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Strom, Marc (August 10, 2009). "Chicago Con '09: S.W.O.R.D. Ongoing". Marvel.com. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ^ http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/?p=1728
References
- Kieron Gillen at the Grand Comics Database
- Kieron Gillen at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
External links
- Official website
- Phonogram official site
- Busted Wonder, a comic written by Gillen and illustrated by Charity Larrison
- Journalisted - Articles by Kieron Gillen