Ann "Annie" Nocenti is an American journalist, filmmaker, teacher, comic book writer and editor.
14 Facts About Ann Nocenti
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Ann Nocenti is best known for her work at Marvel in the late 1980s, particularly the four-year stint as the editor of Uncanny X-Men and The New Mutants as well as her run as a writer of Daredevil, illustrated primarily by John Romita, Jr.
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Ann Nocenti is noted for her outspoken political views, including but not limited to animal rights and alcoholism, which characterized her run on Daredevil.
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Ann Nocenti attended college at SUNY New Paltz, during which she discovered the work of Robert Crumb.
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Ann Nocenti wrote an issue each of Doctor Strange and Star Wars before writing the four-issue miniseries Beauty and the Beast, featuring the superheroes Dazzler and the Beast.
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At the time, Nocenti was pursuing her Master's degree at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, working at the magazine Lies of Our Times, and reading the work of writers such as Marshall McLuhan, Noam Chomsky, Edward S Herman and Walter Lippmann.
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Ann Nocenti returned briefly, in 2003 and 2004, writing four Batman stories for DC.
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Ann Nocenti edited High Times magazine for one year and was an editor on Prison Life Magazine.
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Ann Nocenti's journalism has been published in The Nation, Print, Utne, Heeb, The Brooklyn Rail, CounterPunch, Filmmaker, and Details.
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Ann Nocenti was an editor and writer for Stop Smiling, guest editing the "Gambling Issue".
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Ann Nocenti co-directed the documentary The Baluch, shot in Baluchistan, and made the short Creep for Glass Eye Pix.
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In 2009, Ann Nocenti taught screenplay writing at the Cine Institute in Haiti and in 2012 wrote a series for HiLobrow about the country.
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Ann Nocenti made a short documentary film with Wendy Johnson called Disarming Falcons in 2014 which premiered at DOCNYC.
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At the time Ann Nocenti was assistant editor to Larry Hama on The Incredible Hulk and X-Men.