Fabian Nicieza was born on December 31,1961 and is an Argentine-American comic book writer and editor who is best known for his work on Marvel titles such as X-Men, X-Force, New Warriors, Nomad, Cable, Deadpool and Thunderbolts, for all of which he helped create numerous characters, among them Deadpool, Domino, Shatterstar, and Silhouette.
25 Facts About Fabian Nicieza
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Fabian Nicieza was four years old when his family moved to the United States.
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Fabian Nicieza 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.
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Fabian Nicieza studied at Rutgers University, interning at the ABC television network before graduating in 1983 with a degree in advertising and public relations.
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Fabian Nicieza's brother is Mariano Nicieza, a comic book writer and editor.
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Until 1985, Fabian Nicieza worked for the Berkley Publishing Group, starting in the production department and becoming a managing editor.
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In 1985, Fabian Nicieza joined the staff at Marvel Comics, initially as a manufacturing assistant, later moving to the promotions department as an advertising manager.
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Years later, Fabian Nicieza said that he considers the first 25 issues of New Warriors to be the best work of his career.
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Also in 1990 Fabian Nicieza began short runs on comics such as Alpha Flight, Avengers and Avengers Spotlight, as well as the miniseries Nomad, which in turn led him to write the ongoing series Nomad vol.
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That year, Fabian Nicieza became editor of Marvel's children's imprint, Star Comics.
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In 1991, Fabian Nicieza joined with artist Rob Liefeld in co-plotting and writing the final three issues of the New Mutants.
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In those issues Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza created the characters Deadpool and Shatterstar as well as the super team, X-Force.
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Fabian Nicieza wrote the first solo Deadpool series, Deadpool: the Circle Chase in 1993.
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That year Fabian 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.
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Later in 1996 Fabian Nicieza joined Acclaim Comics as senior vice-president and editor-in-chief.
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Fabian Nicieza was charged with revamping the companies intellectual properties which had previously formed Valiant Comics' Valiant Universe.
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Fabian Nicieza himself wrote the Turok title as well as a new series, Troublemakers.
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Turok met with success as a video game adaptation, and Fabian Nicieza was promoted to president and publisher of Acclaim Comics in 1997.
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However, after staff cuts and most of the lines' cancellation, Fabian Nicieza left Acclaim in 1999.
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Fabian Nicieza worked on several limited series at Marvel and DC around the turn of the century.
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In 2003 Fabian Nicieza co-created, with artist Stefano Raffaele, the horror miniseries The Blackburne Covenant, published by Dark Horse Comics.
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DC announced Fabian Nicieza would be writing Legion Lost, a spinoff of Legion of Superheroes as part of DC's line wide relaunch initiative in September 2011.
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Fabian Nicieza wrote the first six issues before leaving the title.
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In non-comics works, Fabian Nicieza co-scripted the direct-to-DVD animated feature Hot Wheels World Race, and the computer-animated DVD feature The Black Belt Club, based on the Scholastic book series.
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In 2021, Fabian Nicieza created and executive produced the animated streaming series Superhero Kindergarten, based on the comic book series of the same name by Stan Lee.