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Tom Taylor (born 29 November 1978) is an Australian comic book writer, playwright and screenwriter. A New York Times bestselling author, his work includes DC Comics series Injustice, DCeased, Nightwing, Superman, Suicide Squad and Marvel series All-New Wolverine, X-Men Red, Superior Iron Man and Star Wars comics. Taylor is the co-creator, writer and executive producer of the animated series The Deep, based on his graphic novels of the same name.[1]

Tom Taylor
Taylor in 2017
Born (1978-11-29) 29 November 1978 (age 43)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
The Deep (TV series)
Injustice: Gods Among Us
DCeased
All-New Wolverine
Superior Iron Man
X-Men Red
Star Wars: Blood Ties
Superman: Son of Kal-El
The Example
AwardsWinner 'Aurealis Award for Best illustrated book/graphic novel'
'Winner 'Stan Lee Excelsior Award'
'Best Dramatic Writing' Short and Sweet
and others.
tomtaylormade.com

Biography


Taylor was born in Melbourne, Australia. Taylor has written X-Men: Red, All-New Wolverine and Hunt for Wolverine Adamantium Agenda for Marvel comics, along with Justice League/Power Rangers and Injustice 2 for DC Comics. He has also written Batman/Superman, Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion and Superior Iron Man.[2]

Taylor is the creator, with James Brouwer, of the all-ages adventure graphic novels The Deep: Here Be Dragons and its sequel The Vanishing Island published by Gestalt Publishing and Boom! Studios. The Deep was optioned by Technicolor. 52 episodes have screened of the CG animated series, so far, across three seasons, with Taylor serving as co-creator/head writer.[3]

In 2012, The Deep: Here Be Dragons won the Aurealis Award for Best illustrated book/graphic novel, Australia's premier speculative fiction literary award. The sequel, The Vanishing Island, won the award again in 2014.

Performing and writing for theatre and musicals from the age of fourteen, Tom's works have been produced across four continents. His plays have won a number of awards and accolades including winning the award for 'Best Dramatic Writing' in Short and Sweet – The world's largest short play festival.[4]

His plays have been produced at the Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne and the Edinburgh Fringe.

Taylor is well known for his many Star Wars comics and graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics. These include, Star Wars: Blood Ties[5] with artist Chris Scalf, and Star Wars: Invasion, with illustrator Colin Wilson.[6] April 2012 saw the start of Taylor and Scalf's new Blood Ties series provocatively titled Boba Fett is Dead as reported by CNN.[7] Taylor is also the writer of the Darth Maul: Death Sentence miniseries, which is set immediately after the end of the fourth Clone Wars television series.

Star Wars: Blood Ties won the 2012 'Stan Lee Excelsior Award' as voted for by thousands of school students across the UK.

Taylor wrote the graphic novella, Star Wars Adventures: Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes which shows a never before seen story of Luke Skywalker training with Yoda on Dagobah during The Empire Strikes Back. Taylor also penned Star Wars Adventures: The Will of Darth Vader Randy Stradley, Dark Horse Vice President, says Tom Taylor has taken to writing comics faster than anyone he's ever seen.[8]

Taylor also wrote The Authority, published under the Wildstorm imprint, starting with issue #22 in May 2010 until the end of the Wildstorm imprint.[9] He also wrote The Brainiac / Sinestro Corps war storyline in the pages of DC Universe Online: Legends, a Batman story with artist Nicola Scott and Rose and Thorn with artist Neil Googe.

Taylor's award-winning play The Example has also been adapted into a comic book with illustration by Colin Wilson through Gestalt Publishing.[10]

In October 2021, on National Coming Out Day, Taylor announced that the character Jon Kent, the son of Superman in the comic book series Superman: Son of Kal-El will be bisexual.[11]


Bibliography



DC Comics



Marvel



Boom! Studios



Penguin Random House



Dark Horse Comics



Gestalt Publishing



Wildstorm



IDW Publishing



2000 AD



Film and television



The Deep TV series


Taylor is the co-creator, executive producer and head writer of The Deep.[18] The first series began airing on Netflix USA in 2016.[19]

Four seasons (65 episodes) of The Deep have screened globally in over 130 territories, notably on Netflix and CBBC. The Deep has been the number #1 rated animated series in several territories, including the UK and Greece.


Injustice: Gods Among Us


The 2021 film Injustice is part of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line.[20] The film is based on the Injustice: Year One comics by Taylor and the first game, Injustice: Gods Among Us.


Cleverman


Taylor joined the writer's room of Cleverman for the third season[21]


The Example


Taylor wrote the film adaptation of The Example which was optioned and filmed by Staple Fiction in 2011.


A4 to A3


Taylor's award-winning short musical A4 to A3 (written with Simon Barlow) was filmed by Bravada Films in 2009, for which Taylor also wrote the screenplay. A4 to A3 premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival on 29 April 2010.


Awards and nominations



Won



Nominations



Theatrical works



References


  1. "'The Deep' Renewed for Second Season at Netflix". The Hollywood Reporter. 5 October 2016.
  2. "MTV Geek – DC Comics' 'Earth 2' Gets A New Writer From 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' [EXCLUSIVE]". MTV Geek.
  3. "The Deep reels in Nerd Corps as co-production partner". Kidscreen.com. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  4. "Arts News, Commentary, Reviews & Industry Analysis – ArtsHub Australia". Artshub.com.au.
  5. "Starwars.com". Archived from the original on 16 May 2010.
  6. NYCC: Tom Taylor Leads "Star Wars: Invasion", Comic Book Resources, 7 February 2009
  7. "Beloved bounty hunter Boba Fett is dead – but who killed him?". Geekout.blogs.cnn.com.
  8. "NYCC ' 09 – Dark Horse's Star Wars Panel". Newsarama.com.
  9. DC Comics Solicitations for May 2010, Comic Book Resources, 16 February 2010
  10. "Gestalt Comics". Gestaltcomics.com.
  11. Schedeen, Jesse (11 October 2021). "Exclusive: DC's New Superman Jon Kent Comes Out as Bisexual". Ign.com. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  12. All-New Wolverine Vol. 1: The Four Sisters. 24 May 2016. ISBN 978-0785196525.
  13. [dead link]
  14. "All-New Wolverine Vol. 2: Civil War II (Trade Paperback)". Marvel Entertainment.
  15. [dead link]
  16. Taylor, Tom (12 December 2017). All-New Wolverine Vol. 4: Immune. ISBN 978-1302909352.
  17. All-New Wolverine Vol. 5: Orphans of X. 27 February 2018. ISBN 978-1302905613.
  18. "Technicolor, Nerd Corps Partner on The Deep". Animation World Network.
  19. "With Netflix's The Deep, Tom Taylor Dives into All-Ages Animated Adventure". Comicbookresources.com. 22 June 2016.
  20. Couch, Aaron (21 July 2021). "DC's Injustice Sets Cast for Animated Movie (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  21. "Injustice & Wolverine writer Tom Taylor joins the Cleverman writers room". Geeksociety.com.au. 30 July 2017.
  22. "Newsphotos". Newsphotos.com.au.
  23. "Short Sweet+Song is back!". Australianstage.com.au.



Interviews/articles


Preceded by Nightwing writer
2021–present		 Incumbent
Preceded by
Philip Kennedy Johnson
 Superman writer
2021–present		 Incumbent
Preceded by
Kieron Gillen
 Iron Man writer
2014–2015		 Succeeded by
Brian Michael Bendis


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