Tom Taylor (writer)

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Tom Taylor
Eisner Award
for Best Continuing Series

Children's Book of the Year Award
'Aurealis Award for

Best illustrated book/graphic novel
'

'Stan Lee Excelsior Award'
and others.
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Tom Taylor (born 29 November 1978) is an Australian comic book writer, playwright and screenwriter. A New York Times bestselling author, his work includes DC Comics series Injustice, DCeased, Nightwing, Superman, Suicide Squad and Marvel series All-New Wolverine, X-Men Red, Superior Iron Man and Star Wars comics.

Taylor is the co-creator, writer and executive producer of the animated series The Deep, based on his graphic novels of the same name.[1]

Biography

Taylor was born in Melbourne, Australia.

Writing many works for DC Comics, Marvel and Star Wars, Taylor is the creator, with James Brouwer, of the all-ages adventure graphic novel The Deep: Here Be Dragons and its sequel The Vanishing Island published by Gestalt Publishing and Boom! Studios. The Deep was optioned by Technicolor. 65 episodes have screened of the CG animated series, so far, across four seasons, with Taylor serving as the co-creator, head writer and executive producer.[2]

In 2012,

Best illustrated book/graphic novel
, Australia's premier speculative fiction literary award. The sequel, The Vanishing Island, won the award again in 2014.

Taylor is also the co-creator of Seven Secrets which, at the time of its release, was the highest launching original series in the history of Boom! Studios.[3]

In 2023, Taylor's Neverlanders, with Jon Sommariva, became the first graphic novel to win the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers.[4]

Taylor has written

Earth Two.[5]

Performing and writing for theatre and

musicals from the age of fourteen, Tom's works have been produced across four continents. His plays have won a number of awards and accolades including winning the award for 'Best Dramatic Writing' in Short and Sweet – The world's largest short play festival.[6]

His plays have been produced at the

Edinburgh Fringe
.

Taylor is well known for his many Star Wars comics and graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics. These include, Star Wars: Blood Ties[7] with artist Chris Scalf, and Star Wars: Invasion, with illustrator Colin Wilson.[8] April 2012 saw the start of Taylor and Scalf's new Blood Ties series provocatively titled Boba Fett is Dead as reported by CNN.[9] Taylor is also the writer of the Darth Maul: Death Sentence miniseries, which is set immediately after the end of the fourth Clone Wars television series.

Star Wars: Blood Ties won the 2012 'Stan Lee Excelsior Award' as voted for by thousands of school students across the UK.

Taylor wrote the graphic novella,

Skywalker training with Yoda on Dagobah during The Empire Strikes Back. Taylor also penned Star Wars Adventures: The Will of Darth Vader. Dark Horse Vice President Randy Stradley says that Tom Taylor has taken to writing comics faster than anyone he's ever seen.[10]

Taylor also wrote

Wildstorm imprint, starting with issue #22 in May 2010 until the end of the Wildstorm imprint.[11] He also wrote The Brainiac / Sinestro Corps war storyline in the pages of DC Universe Online: Legends, a Batman story with artist Nicola Scott and Rose and Thorn
with artist Neil Googe.

Taylor's award-winning play

The Example has also been adapted into a comic book with illustration by Colin Wilson through Gestalt Publishing.[12]

In October 2021, on National Coming Out Day, Taylor announced that the character Jon Kent, the son of Superman in the comic book series Superman: Son of Kal-El will be bisexual.[13]

Bibliography

DC Comics

Marvel

Boom! Studios

Penguin Random House

Dark Horse Comics

Gestalt Publishing

Wildstorm

  • DC/Wildstorm
    , 2010)

IDW Publishing

2000 AD

  • Tharg's 3rillers: 15 (with art by Jon Davis-Hunt, 2000 AD #1797–1799, 2012)

Film and television

The Deep TV series

Taylor is the co-creator, executive producer and head writer of The Deep.[20] The first series began airing on Netflix USA in 2016.[21]

Four seasons (65 episodes) of The Deep have screened globally in over 130 territories, notably on Netflix and

CBBC
. The Deep has been the number #1 rated animated series in several territories, including the UK and Greece.

Injustice: Gods Among Us

The 2021 film Injustice is part of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line.[22] The film is based on the Injustice: Year One comics by Taylor and the first game, Injustice: Gods Among Us.

Cleverman

Taylor joined the writer's room of Cleverman for the third season[23]

The Example

Taylor wrote the film adaptation of The Example which was optioned and filmed by Staple Fiction in 2011.

A4 to A3

Taylor's award-winning short musical A4 to A3 (written with Simon Barlow) was filmed by Bravada Films in 2009, for which Taylor also wrote the screenplay. A4 to A3 premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival on 29 April 2010.

Awards and nominations

Won

Nominations

Theatrical works

  • THE EXAMPLE
    • Sydney Opera House (Sydney AUS 2006)
    • Edinburgh Festival
      (Edinburgh, Scotland 2008)
    • The Edge Performing Arts Centre
      (Auckland, New Zealand 2010)
    • The Esplanade (Singapore 2006)
    • Brighton Festival Fringe
      (Brighton England 2006)
    • Brisbane Powerhouse (QLD AUS 2008)
    • Melbourne Arts Centre
      (Melbourne AUS 2005)
    • Seymour Centre (Sydney AUS 2006)
    • Araluen Arts Centre (Alice Springs N.T. 2008)
    • Darwin Entertainment Centre Darwin Australia 2008
    • Cairns Civic Theatre (QLD Australia 2008)
    • Rockhampton Performing Arts Centre QLD AUS 2008
    • Canberra Theatre Centre (ACT AUS 2008)
  • DRIP
    • Stratton Players (Boston USA 2007)
    • Newtown Theatre (Sydney AUS 2009)
    • Carlton Courthouse (Melbourne Aus 2008)
  • FALLING PRAYING
  • BELIEVE
    • Bite Size Theatre (Brighton England 2007)
    • Newtown Theatre (Sydney AUS 2007)
  • PROTEST
    • Fairfax Theatre,
      Melbourne Arts Centre
      (Melbourne, Australia 2007)
    • Newtown Theatre (Sydney AUS 2007)
  • MYSTERY FLIGHT
    • Chapel Off Chapel (Melbourne, Australia 2009)
  • A4 2 A3 (with Simon Barlow)
  • CITY HEAD
    • Melbourne Trades Hall
      Melbourne AUS 2007
  • NAZANIN
    • The BDP Ensemble (Brisbane AUS 2006)
  • MY MONTH AS A MEMBER
    • Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre (Sydney AUS 2005)
  • THE RATINGS WAR (With Daniel Hall and Simon Barlow)
    • Melbourne Comedy Festival
      Melbourne AUS 2004
  • CANDIDATE (With Daniel Hall, Simon Barlow and Joe Guiton)
    • Melbourne Comedy Festival
      (Melbourne AUS 2003)
  • HARD RUBBISH WEEK (Script coordinator)
    • The Athenaeum Theatre (Melbourne AUS 2003)

References

  1. ^ "'The Deep' Renewed for Second Season at Netflix". The Hollywood Reporter. 5 October 2016.
  2. ^ "The Deep reels in Nerd Corps as co-production partner". Kidscreen.com. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Seven Secrets #1, The Biggest Creator-Owned Launch Ever From Boom". Bleeding Cool.
  4. ^ "Think comics aren't books. This Graphic Novel just won book of the year". 18 August 2023.
  5. ^ "MTV Geek – DC Comics' 'Earth 2' Gets A New Writer From 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' [EXCLUSIVE]". MTV Geek.
  6. ^ "Arts News, Commentary, Reviews & Industry Analysis – ArtsHub Australia". Artshub.com.au.
  7. ^ "Starwars.com". Archived from the original on 16 May 2010.
  8. ^ NYCC: Tom Taylor Leads "Star Wars: Invasion", Comic Book Resources, 7 February 2009
  9. ^ "Beloved bounty hunter Boba Fett is dead – but who killed him?". Geekout.blogs.cnn.com.
  10. ^ "NYCC ' 09 – Dark Horse's Star Wars Panel". Newsarama.com.
  11. ^ DC Comics Solicitations for May 2010, Comic Book Resources, 16 February 2010
  12. ^ "Gestalt Comics". Gestaltcomics.com.
  13. ^ Schedeen, Jesse (11 October 2021). "Exclusive: DC's New Superman Jon Kent Comes Out as Bisexual". Ign.com. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  14. ISBN 978-0785196525
    .
  15. ^ [1] [dead link]
  16. ^ "All-New Wolverine Vol. 2: Civil War II (Trade Paperback)". Marvel Entertainment.
  17. ^ [2] [dead link]
  18. ISBN 978-1302909352
    .
  19. ISBN 978-1302905613
    .
  20. ^ "Technicolor, Nerd Corps Partner on The Deep". Animation World Network.
  21. ^ "With Netflix's The Deep, Tom Taylor Dives into All-Ages Animated Adventure". Comicbookresources.com. 22 June 2016.
  22. ^ Couch, Aaron (21 July 2021). "DC's Injustice Sets Cast for Animated Movie (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  23. ^ "Injustice & Wolverine writer Tom Taylor joins the Cleverman writers room". Geeksociety.com.au. 30 July 2017.
  24. ^ "CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 18 August 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  25. ^ "Newsphotos". Newsphotos.com.au.
  26. ^ "Short Sweet+Song is back!". Australianstage.com.au.

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 Superman writer
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