Kieron Michael Gillen is a British comic book writer and former video game and music journalist.
11 Facts About Kieron Gillen
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Kieron Gillen has been nominated four times for a GLAAD Media Award, winning once for Young Avengers.
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In 2000, Kieron Gillen became the first-ever video game journalist to receive an award from the Periodical Publishers Association, for New Specialist Consumer Journalist.
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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's other creator-owned work includes 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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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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In June 2020, Marvel announced that Kieron Gillen would write Warhammer 40,000: Marneus Calgar, the first series in a line of Warhammer comics published by the company.
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In 2021, Kieron Gillen began writing the Eternals ongoing series, illustrated by Esad Ribic.
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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.