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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, The Deep: Here Be Dragons won the Aurealis Award for 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]

Taylor has written X-Men: Red, All-New Wolverine and Hunt for Wolverine Adamantium Agenda for Marvel Comics, along with Justice League/Power Rangers and Injustice 2 for DC Comics. He has also written Batman/Superman, Titans and Earth Two.[4]

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.[5]

His plays have been produced at the Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne and 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[6] with artist Chris Scalf, and Star Wars: Invasion, with illustrator Colin Wilson.[7] April 2012 saw the start of Taylor and Scalf's new Blood Ties series provocatively titled Boba Fett is Dead as reported by CNN.[8] 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, Star Wars Adventures: Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes which shows a never before seen story of Luke 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.[9]

Taylor also wrote The Authority, published under the Wildstorm imprint, starting with issue #22 in May 2010 until the end of the Wildstorm imprint.[10] 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.[11]

In December 2020, it was announced that Taylor would be the new writer on the Nightwing solo series with artist Bruno Redondo illustrating.[12][13]

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.[14]

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.[15]

In February 2024, it was announced that Taylor and Redondo's run on Nightwing would enter its final story arc with Nightwing (vol. 4) #114. This five part story arc titled “Fallen Grayson” would begin in May 2024. In all, Taylor and Redondo's run encompassed over 40 issues.[16][17][18]

Bibliography

DC Comics

  • Detective Comics #1090 – (with art by Mikel Janin, DC Comics, 2024)
  • Titans: Beast World #1 – #6 (with art by Ivan Reis, DC Comics, 2023-2024)
  • Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter #1 – #6 (back up stories with art by Riccardo Federicci, DC Comics, 2024)
  • Batman – One Bad Day: Ra's Al Ghul (with art by Ivan Reis, DC Comics, 2023)
  • Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent #1 – #6 (with art by Clayton Henry, DC Comics, 2023)
  • Titans #1 – #15 (with art by Nicola Scott, DC Comics, 2023-2024)
  • DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #1 – #8 (with art by Trevor Hairsine, DC Comics, 2022-2023)
  • Action Comics #1050 (with art by Clayton Henry, DC Comics, 2022)
  • Superman: Son of Kal-El #1 – #18 (with art by John Timms, Cian Tormey, DC Comics, 2021-2022)
    • Superman: Son of Kal-El – The Truth – Collects Superman: Son of Kal-El #1 – #6 (with art by Bruno Redondo, DC Comics, 2022) )
    • Superman: Son of Kal-El Volume 2 – The Rising – Collects Superman: Son of Kal-El #7-10, Nightwing #89, and Superman: Son of Kal-El 2021 Annual #1 (with art by Cian Tormey and Bruno Redondo, DC Comics, 2022) )
    • Superman: Son of Kal-El Volume 3 - Battle for Gamorra – Collects Superman: Son of Kal-El #11-#15 (with art by Cian Tormey, Ruiari Coleman, DC Comics, 2023) )
  • Nightwing #78– (with art by Bruno Redondo, DC Comics, 2021-)
    • Nightwing Leaping into the Light – Collects Nightwing #78–83 (with art by Bruno Redondo, DC Comics, 2021) )
    • Nightwing Fear State – Collects Nightwing #84–#86 and Nightwing annual (with art by Robbi Rodriguez and Cian Tormey, DC Comics, 2022) )
    • Nightwing Volume 2: Get Grayson – Collects Nightwing #87-#91 and Superman: Son of Kal-El #9(with art by Bruno Redondo, DC Comics, 2021) )
    • Nightwing Volume 3: The Battle for Bludhaven's Heart – Collects Nightwing #92-#96 (with art by Bruno Redondo, DC Comics, 2022) )
    • Nightwing Volume 4: The Leap – Collects Nightwing #97-100 and Nightwing 2022 Annual (with art by Bruno Redondo, Daniele Di Nicuolo, DC Comics, 2023) )
  • Batman The Detective #1–6 (with art by Andy Kubert, DC Comics, 2021 )
  • Dark Knights of Steel #1–12 (with art by Yasmine Putri, DC Comics, 2021-2023)
  • Green Arrow: 80th Anniversary #1 (with Art by Nicola Scott, DC Comics, 2021)
  • Superman: Son of Kal-El Annual – (with art by Steve Pugh, DC Comics, 2021)
  • Nightwing Annual – (with art by Cian Tormey, DC Comics, 2021)
  • Hellblazer: Rise and Fall #1–3 (with art by Darick Robertson, DC Comics, 2020–2021, )
  • DCeased: Dead Planet issues #1–7 (with art by Trevor Hairsine, DC Comics, 2020–2021, )
  • The Joker 80th Anniversary #1 (with art by Eduardo Risso, DC Comics, 2020)
  • Injustice Year Zero Chapters #1–14 (with art by Roge Antonio and Cian Tormey, DC Comics, 2020–2021) )
  • DCeased: Hope at World's End #1–15 (with art by various, DC Comics, 2020) )
  • Aquaman Giant #3 (with art by Pop Mhan, DC Comics, 2020)
  • DCeased: Unkillables Issues #1–3 (with art by Karl Mosert, DC Comics, 2020, )
  • Suicide Squad #1–11 (with art by Bruno Redondo, DC Comics, 2019–2020), )
  • Detective Comics #1017 (with art by Fernando Blanco, DC Comics, 2019)
  • DCeased issues #1–6 (with art by Trevor Hairsine, DC Comics, 2019, )
  • Year of the Villain: Black Mask (with art by Cully Hamner, DC Comics, 2019)
  • DCeased: A Good Day to Die #1 (with art by Laura Braga and Darick Robertson, DC Comics, 2019)
  • DC Villains Giant (with art by Daniel Sampere), DC Comics, 2019)
  • Injustice 2 Chapters #1–72 (with art by Bruno Redondo, DC Comics, 2017–2018)
  • Batman Annual #3 (with art by Otto Schmidt, DC Comics, 2018)
  • Batman Secret Files #1 (with art by Brad Walker, DC Comics, 2018)
  • DC Nuclear Winter Special #1 (DC Comics, 2018)
  • Justice League/Power Rangers Issues #1–6 (with art by Stephen Byrne, DC Comics, 2017, )
  • Batman/Superman issues #28–30 (with Art by Robson Rocha, DC Comics, 2016)
  • Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion Issues #1–6 (DC Comics, 2016)
  • Injustice: Gods Among Us Annual #4 (with Art by Bruno Redondo, DC Comics, 2015)
  • Injustice: Year Three Chapters #1–14 (with Art by Bruno Redondo, Mike S. Miller, and various, DC Comics, 2014–2015)
  • Earth-2 Issues #17–29 (with Art by Nicola Scott, DC Comics, 2013–2014)
  • Injustice: Year Two Chapters #1–24 (with Art by Bruno Redondo, Tom Derenick, and various), DC Comics, 2014)
  • Earth-2 Annual #2 (with Art by Robson Rocha, DC Comics, 2014)
  • Injustice: Gods Among Us Chapters #1–36 (with Art by Jheremy Rapaack and various, DC Comics, 2013, )
  • Injustice: Gods Among Us Annual #1 (with Art by Xermanico, and Bruno Redondo), DC Comics, 2013)
  • Batman Legends of the Dark Knight – The Crime Never Committed (with Art by Nicola Scott), DC Comics, 2012)
  • Rose and Thorn (with art by Neil Googe, DC Comics, 2012)
  • DC Universe Online: Legends – The Brainiac/Sinestro Corps War (With art by Bruno Redondo, DC Comics, 2011)

Marvel

Boom! Studios

Penguin Random House

Dark Horse Comics

Gestalt Publishing

Wildstorm

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.[24] The first series began airing on Netflix USA in 2016.[25]

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.[26] 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[27]

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

References

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Interviews/articles


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