1. Kieron Michael Gillen is a British comic book writer and former video game and music journalist.
18 Facts About Kieron Gillen
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Kieron Gillen is known for numerous Marvel Comics projects, such as Journey into Mystery, Uncanny X-Men, and Young Avengers in the early 2010s and Star Wars comics in the mid-to-late 2010s including Darth Vader, Star Wars, and co-creation of the character Doctor Aphra who starred in her own ongoing spin-off comic series Star Wars: Doctor Aphra of which Gillen wrote the first 19 issues.
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Kieron Gillen returned to the X-Men in the 2020s with multiple series during the Krakoan Age for the Destiny of X, Sins of Sinister and Fall of X storylines.
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Kieron Gillen has won the British Fantasy Award twice for Die.
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Kieron Gillen has been nominated five times for a GLAAD Media Award, winning once for Young Avengers.
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Kieron Gillen is a fan of the work of the video game developer Warren Spector, having written positive pieces on several Spector's games, most notably Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows, both produced by Ion Storm.
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Kieron Gillen co-founded the British video game journalism website Rock Paper Shotgun in July 2007.
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On 14 April 2008, it was announced Kieron Gillen would collaborate with artist Greg Scott to expand on Warren Ellis' newuniversal series with "a story about killing the future" set in 1959.
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In late 2010, Kieron Gillen launched another X-Men spin-off Generation Hope that picked up plot threads from the end of the "Second Coming" storyline.
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Kieron Gillen wrote the title for twelve issues before passing it to James Asmus.
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Kieron Gillen's other creator-owned work included Three, a mini-series about the helots of Sparta, and The Ludocrats, initially announced in 2015 as a collaboration between writers Kieron Gillen and Jim Rossignol and artist David Lafuente.
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From 2015 to 2016, Kieron Gillen wrote the 25-issue Star Wars: Darth Vader series for Marvel.
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In 2018, Kieron Gillen announced that he was preparing a role-playing game based on Die.
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Kieron Gillen developed the game and the comic concurrently; ideas he developed for one would then crossover into the other.
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In June 2020, Marvel announced that Kieron Gillen would write the limited series Warhammer 40,000: Marneus Calgar, the first series in a line of Warhammer comics published by the company.
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Also in 2021, Kieron Gillen began writing the Eternals ongoing series, illustrated by Esad Ribic.
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At Emerald City Comic Con 2024, Kieron Gillen announced a new Image series titled The Power Fantasy with artist Caspar Wijngaard and letterer Clayton Cowles; it was scheduled to release in August 2024.
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Kieron Gillen was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Arts by Staffordshire University in 2019 for his work both as a journalist and a comic book writer.