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John A. Gillen, II, MD gillenorthospecialist.com |
Kieron Gillen (born 30 September, 1975) is a British computer games and music journalist, as well as a comic book author.
[edit] BiographyGillen has worked for many years as a video game journalist and has, more recently, worked on various comics. [edit] JournalismGillen has worked for a lengthy list of publications, including PC Gamer UK, The Escapist, Amiga Power, Wired, The Guardian newspaper (where he wrote the first long-form videogame review in a mainstream newspaper[1]), Edge, Games Developer, Develop, MCV, Gamesmaster and PC Format, among others. On the web, Gillen is a founder and major contributor to the PC gaming site Rock, Paper, Shotgun and a games reviewer for Eurogamer. He is notable for his manifesto[2] for New Games Journalism, more simply the model of new journalism applied to videogames journalism. In 2000, Gillen became the first-ever videogames journalist to receive an award from the Periodical Publishers Association, for New Specialist Consumer Journalist.[3] Gillen has also been invited as a guest speaker at games-industry conferences.[4][5] Gillen is a fan of the work of videogame developer Warren Spector writing positive pieces on Spector's games, most notably the Ion Storm produced games Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows. This stemmed largely from Gillen's love of the now-defunct Looking Glass Studios, where Spector also worked. [edit] ComicsGillen's career also includes the comics he writes both online and in print; he has worked for Warhammer Monthly and Chaos League. Since 2003, Gillen has collaborated with artist Jamie McKelvie on a comic strip for the official Playstation Magazine UK, entitled Save Point. His current project, described by Gillen as "my first real comic,"[6] is another collaboration with McKelvie, the pop-music urban fantasy Phonogram. Veteran comics writer Warren Ellis has dubbed it "one of the few truly essential comics of 2006."[7] The first issue, published by Image Comics, went on sale in August 2006 and ran for six issues. The second series, set to run for seven issues, launched in December 2008. On April 14th 2008 it was announced that Gillen would be collaborating with the artist Greg Scott to expand the Warren Ellis's newuniversal mythos with "a story about killing the future" set in 1959[8] and he wrote Crown of Destruction a Warhammer Fantasy comic.[9] The Phonogram sequel "The Singles Club" started in December 2008, a series of one-shots.[10][11] He also got more work at Marvel with a Dazzler story and a Beta Ray Bill one-shot and mini-series.[12] His workload at Marvel increased in late 2009. At HeroesCon it was announced he would be writing a Dark Reign tie-in with the Dark Avengers: Ares mini-series.[13] During the 2009 Chicago Comic Con it was announced that Gillen will collaborate with Steven Sanders on a new ongoing series known as S.W.O.R.D from Marvel Comics.[14][15] Gillen will also be doing six issues of Thor, following J. Michael Straczynski.[16] He has also written a series for Avatar Press called The Heat.[17] [edit] BibliographyComics work includes:
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