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| 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. He is perhaps best 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.
Journalism
Gillen has worked for a lengthy list of publications, including PC Gamer UK, The Escapist, Amiga Power (under the pseudonym "C-Monster"), 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, the first series ran for six issues. The second series run for seven issues, and was 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] He also got more work at Marvel with a Dazzler story and a Beta Ray Bill one-shot and mini-series.[12]
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.[13] 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.[14][15] Gillen will also be writing Thor, following J. Michael Straczynski, from issues #604[16] to 614.[17]
He has also written a series for Avatar Press called The Heat.[18]
Bibliography
Comics work includes:
- Phonogram: Rue Britannia (with Jamie McKelvie, 6-issue limited series, Image, August 2007 - May 2008, tpb, 144 pages, June 2007, ISBN 1-582406-94-4)
- newuniversal: 1959 (with Greg Scott, one-shot, Marvel Comics, July 2008)
- Crown of Destruction (with Dwayne Harris, 4-issue mini-series, Boom! Studios, September-December 2008)
- Phonogram: The Singles Club (with Jamie McKelvie, 7-issue limited series, Image Comics, December 2008 - ongoing, tpb, December 2009, ISBN 1607061791)
- "Dazzler: Solo" (with Sarah Pichelli, in X-Men: Manifest Destiny #5, Marvel Comics, March 2009)
- X-Men Origins: Sabretooth (with Dan Panosian, one-shot, Marvel Comics, April 2009)
- Secret Invasion Aftermath: Beta Ray Bill - The Green of Eden (with Dan Brereton, one-shot, Marvel Comics, June 2009)
- "Namor, The Sub-Mariner: The Judgement of Namor" (with Carmine Di Giandomenico, in Dark Reign: The Cabal, Marvel Comics, June 2009)
- Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter (with Jose Angel Cano Lopez, 3-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, August-October 2009, tpb, October 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4232-0)
- Dark Avengers: Ares (with Manuel García, 3-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, December 2009 - February 2010, tpb, April 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4406-4)
- S.W.O.R.D #1-5 (with Steven Sanders, Marvel Comics, January-May 2010, tpb, July 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4076-X)
- Thor #604-614 (with Billy Tan and Richard Elson (from #607), Marvel Comics, February 2010-September 2010)
- "The Cure" (with Frazer Irving, in The Mystic Hands of Dr. Strange, one-shot, Marvel Comics, May 2010)
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
- ^ 3 conversations with Kieron Gillen: Phonogram, music and comics, Mindless Ones, August 3, 2009
- ^ HeroesCon: Kieron Gillen Talks "Dark Avengers: Ares", Comic Book Resources, June 21, 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.
- ^ Richards, Dave (August 24, 2009). "Kieron Gillen Talks Thor". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
- ^ Richards, Dave (May 21, 2010). "Gillen Sends "Thor" to Hell". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
- ^ Leader, Michael (November 3, 2009). "Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie interview". Den of Geek. Retrieved November 3, 2009.
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
- 'Interview with Kieron Gillen , Liberation Frequency, November 2009