16 Facts About Louise Simonson

Louise Simonson is an American comic book writer and editor.

Louise Simonson is best known for her work on comic book titles such as Conan the Barbarian, Power Pack, X-Factor, New Mutants, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Steel.

Louise Simonson is often referred to by the nickname "Weezie".

In 1964 while attending Georgia State College, Louise Simonson met fellow student Jeffrey Catherine Jones.

Louise Simonson went from assistant to senior editor of the comics line before leaving the company at the end of 1979.

Louise Simonson wrote the majority of the title's first forty issues, even coloring one issue.

In 1986 Bob Layton, writer of the X-Men spin-off X-Factor, was running late on a deadline, and Louise Simonson was called in to write a fill-in issue of X-Factor.

Louise Simonson contributed to such storylines as "Panic in the Sky" in 1992.

Later that year, Louise Simonson was one of the chief architects of "The Death of Superman" storyline, in which Superman died and was resurrected.

Louise Simonson was one of the many creators who worked on the Superman: The Wedding Album one-shot in 1996 wherein the title character married Lois Lane.

In 1999, Louise Simonson returned to Marvel to write a Warlock series, which featured a character from her previous New Mutants run.

In 2005, she wrote stories featuring Magnus, Robot Fighter for the publisher Ibooks, Inc In 2007, Louise Simonson wrote a one-shot starring Magik of the New Mutants as part of a four-issue event known as Mystic Arcana.

Louise Simonson co-wrote the comic World of Warcraft, based on the multi-million player internet game, for Wildstorm, and a manga story, based in the Warcraft universe, for Tokyopop.

In 2011, DC hired Louise Simonson to write DC Retroactive: Superman - The '90s, pencilled by her Man of Steel-collaborator Jon Bogdanove.

Louise Simonson revisited her runs on X-Factor and New Mutants with new stories for X-Men Legends, pencilled by her husband Walt and published in 2021 and 2022.

Louise Simonson wrote an adult Batman novel and the non-fiction DC Comics Covergirls.