Fabian Nicieza

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Fabian Nicieza
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Fabian Nicieza (

Domino, Shatterstar, and Silhouette
.

Early life

Nicieza was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Omar and Irma Riguetti Nicieza.[4] He was four years old when his family moved to the United States. Growing up in New Jersey, Nicieza learned to read and write from comic books. He lived first in Sayreville, New Jersey and moved to Old Bridge Township, where he attended Madison Central High School, from which he graduated in 1979.[5] He studied at Rutgers University, interning at the ABC television network before graduating in 1983 with a degree in advertising and public relations.[6] His brother is Mariano Nicieza, also a comic book writer and editor.

Career

Until 1985, Nicieza worked for the

Berkley Publishing Group, starting in the production department and becoming a managing editor.[7]

Marvel Comics

In 1985, Nicieza joined the staff at

freelance work for Marvel, writing short articles for Marvel's promotional magazine Marvel Age
.

Nicieza's first published comics story came with

Annuals' 1989 summer crossover "Atlantis Attacks
".

After

pencilers Mark Bagley and later Darick Robertson, primarily, Nicieza went on to write the title for most of its first 53 issues (July 1990 – November 1994). Years later, Nicieza said that he considers the first 25 issues of New Warriors to be the best work of his career.[8]

Also in 1990 Nicieza began short runs on comics such as

freelance writing
for the company. Nicieza's projects in this period included the first four issues of National Football League-approved superhero NFL SuperPro (Oct. 1991 – Feb. 1992), and, with penciler Kevin Maguire, the four-issue miniseries Adventures of Captain America (also known by its cover-logo treatment, The Adventures of Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty) (Sept. 1991 – Jan. 1992), an origin-story retelling set in the 1940s.

The X-Men

In 1991, Nicieza joined with artist

crossover story arcs as "X-Cutioner's Song", "Phalanx Covenant" and "Age of Apocalypse
".

During this period Nicieza wrote the first

Cable miniseries as well as the first few issues of the character's subsequent ongoing series
. He also wrote the first solo Deadpool series, Deadpool: the Circle Chase in 1993. These series expanded the characters' personalities and established key background information for both characters, all things which were later used by other writers on those characters' subsequent ongoing books.

However, in 1995, in a dispute with then editor-in-chief Bob Harras over the future direction of his plotlines on X-Force,[citation needed] Nicieza was fired from the X-titles, leaving X-Force with No. 43 and X-Men with No. 45. He later remarked, "I never wanted to leave [X-Force], and never felt my firing was justified. ... I don't recall being given a reason [for being fired], and I also don't recall asking for one. ... Considering it was a Top 10 selling title at the time, I felt it was a wholly unjustified decision."[8]

Acclaim Comics

After 1995, Nicieza wrote short runs of Captain Marvel (vol. 2, 1995), Spider-Man: The Final Adventure (1995) and stories for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers before leaving the company in 1996. That year Nicieza did his first work for rival publisher DC Comics, co-writing Justice League: Midsummer Nightmare with Mark Waid which relaunched the Justice League as the JLA. He also worked for Twist and Shout Comics writing and pencilling back-up stories in X-Flies Special #1 and Dirtbag #7.

Later in 1996 Nicieza joined

Acclaim Comics as senior vice-president and editor-in-chief. He was charged with revamping the companies intellectual properties which had previously formed Valiant Comics' Valiant Universe. Nicieza as editor oversaw the new version, dubbed "VH2", which re-imagined characters such as Solar, X-O Manowar, and Ninjak
.

Nicieza himself wrote the Turok title as well as a new series, Troublemakers. Turok met with success as a video game adaptation, and Nicieza was promoted to president and publisher of Acclaim Comics in 1997. He also wrote a Turok novella during this period. However, after staff cuts and most of the lines' cancellation, Nicieza left Acclaim in 1999.

Freelance work

Returning to freelance work, Marvel and the X-Men, Nicieza co-wrote the Magneto Wars crossover through Uncanny X-Men #366–367 and X-Men vol. 2, #86–87, with artist Alan Davis in 1999. This led to the successive Magneto limited series Magneto Rex (1999) and Magneto: Dark Seduction (2000), as well as an ongoing Gambit (1999) series which he wrote for the first 24 issues of its 25-issue run.

Also in 1999, Nicieza began writing Thunderbolts with #34. He continued to write the book (initially with old partner Mark Bagley on art, later with Patrick Zircher and Chris Batista) up until No. 75 when the title was revamped. The revamp was unsuccessful, and in 2004 the original version of the team was resurrected, initially in an Avengers/Thunderbolts miniseries, then later in the New Thunderbolts series with Nicieza again as writer.

Nicieza also worked on several limited series at Marvel and DC around the turn of the century. At Marvel he wrote Citizen V (2001), Citizen V and the V Battalion: Everlasting (2002), X-Men Forever (2001), and X-Force vol. 2, as well as the short-lived ongoing series Hawkeye (2003); while at DC, he wrote the six-issue miniseries Supermen of America (1999) and the Elseworlds project JLA: Created Equal (2000), as well as some issues of the children's comic Justice League Adventures.

In 2003 Nicieza co-created, with artist

Cable and Deadpool
, of which he wrote all 50 issues.

In 2006, Nicieza returned to DC with a three-issue arc in

Battle for the Cowl storyline which dealt with the "Batman R.I.P." aftermath. After Death's Dark Knight concluded, Nicieza wrote the new Azrael ongoing series from issue #1–13 (December 2009 – December 2010).[13][14]

Nicieza began writing the DC series

Red Robin from issues #13-26, the final issue (Aug. 2010 - Aug. 2011). DC announced Nicieza would be writing Legion Lost, a spinoff of Legion of Superheroes as part of DC's line wide relaunch initiative in September 2011. Nicieza wrote the first six issues before leaving the title.[15] In 2016, for the comics company Shatner Singularity, he adapted a Stan Lee poem into the graphic novel Stan Lee's 'God Woke'.[16] That work won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.[17]

In 2023, it was announced that Nicieza would be returning to the X-Men line of books to write the fifth volume of Cable, as a four-issue mini-series beginning in January, 2024.[18]

Non-comics work

In non-comics works, Nicieza co-scripted the

computer-animated DVD feature The Black Belt Club, based on the Scholastic book series. In 2021, Nicieza created and executive produced the animated streaming series Superhero Kindergarten, based on the comic book series of the same name by Stan Lee.[19] In 2021, Nicieza's first non-comic book was released: Suburban Dicks, a satirical crime novel set in the New Jersey suburbs.[20] A second book with the same characters, The Self-Made Widow, was published in 2022.[21]

References

  1. ^ "Fabian Nicieza Interview"
  2. ^ Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide. Iola, Wisconsin. Archived from the original on February 18, 2011.
  3. ^ Nicieza, Fabian. "About". Fabian Niceiza Facebook page. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
  4. ^ Dedication, Adventures of Captain America No. 1 (Sept. 1991)
  5. ^ O'Donnell, Chris. "Creator of weekend box office champion 'Deadpool' from NJ", Courier News, January 14, 2016. Accessed July 26, 2018. "They settled in Skytop Gardens off Ernston Road in Sayreville when he was 4.Eventually Nicieza was buying copies of Marvel’s Fantastic Four and The Avengers when they were just 12 cents.... He set his sights on being a comic book writer after the family moved to Old Bridge and he graduated from now defunct Madison Central High School in 1979."
  6. ^ McAninch, MacKenzie (April 30, 2004). "Interview: Fabian Nicieza". Randomville.com. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  7. ^ "Biography – Fabian Nicieza". IGN. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  8. ^ a b c Wheeler, Andrew. "Fabian Nicieza: Working for the Man". PopImage. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
  9. ^ McElhatton, Greg (January 1993). "The Busiest Man in Comics". Wizard (17). Wizard Entertainment: 42–45.
  10. ^ "Islamic Superheroes Invade Indonesia" Archived May 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved October 2, 2007.
  11. ^ Nicieza Searches for a Hero in “Robin”, Comic Book Resources, June 17, 2008
  12. ^ Fabian Nicieza on Picking Up 'Robin' Post-Dixon, Newsarama, August 4, 2008
  13. ^ Batman: Battle for the Cowl – Enter Azrael, IGN, December 18, 2008
  14. ^ Fabian Nicieza Unleashes Azrael, Comic Book Resources, December 29, 2008
  15. ^ Exit Interview: FABIAN NICIEZA Explains LEGION LOST Split, Newsarama, December 5, 2011
  16. ^ Wiebe, Sheldon (July 18, 2016). "Comic-Con 2016: POW! Entertainment and Shatner Singularity Introduce Stan Lee's God Woke!" (Press release). Shatner Singularity. Archived from the original on August 6, 2016. Retrieved July 22, 2016 – via EclipseMagazine.com. Additional on December 22, 2016. (WebCitation page requires text-blocking to make text visible)
  17. ^ "2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards". Independent Publisher Book Awards. Archived from the original on April 8, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  18. ^ Club, Comic Book (October 19, 2023). "Raina Telgemeier Teases New Graphic Novel Online". Comic Book Club. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  19. Valence Media
    . Retrieved May 14, 2021.
  20. ^ Suburban Dicks: Delightfully irreverent and so very entertaining
  21. ^ Book Review: The Self-Made Widow by Fabian Nicieza

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