Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen

Infobox Comics creator
name = Kieron Gillen


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Kieron Gillen (born 30 September 1975) is a British computer games and music journalist, as well as a comic book author.

Biography

Gillen has worked for many years as a video game journalist and has, more recently, worked on various comics.

Journalism

Gillen 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 [ [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1569772,00.html The whodunit where you done it | Technology | The Guardian ] ] ), "Edge", "Games Developer", "Develop", "MCV", "Gamesmaster" and "PC Format", among others.

He is notable for his manifesto [ [http://www.alwaysblack.com/blackbox/ngj.html www.alwaysblack.com home ] ] for New Games Journalism, more simply the model of new journalism applied to videogames journalism.

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 . This stemmed largely from Gillen's love of the now-defunct Looking Glass Studios, where Spector also worked.

In 2000, Gillen became the first-ever videogames journalist to receive an award from the "Periodical Publishers Association", for New Specialist Consumer Journalist. [ [http://www.ppa.co.uk/cgi-bin/wms.pl/710 PPA | PTC New Journalist of the Year Awards ] ]

Gillen has also been invited as a guest speaker at games-industry conferences. [http://www.nextwave.org.au/freeplay/05speakers.htm] [ [http://animex.tees.ac.uk/speakers_details.cfm?speaker_id=79 Animex International Festival of Animation & Computer Games | Speakers ] ]

Comics

Gillen'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," [ [http://www.phonogramcomic.com/blog/?page_id=3 Phonogram ] ] 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." [ [http://www.newsarama.com/ImageComics/Phonogram/Phonogram01Pre.html NEWSARAMA.COM: PREVIEWING TEN PAGES OF IMAGE COMICS' PHONOGRAM #1 ] ] The first issue, published by Image Comics, went on sale in August 2006 and ran for six issues. A second series is being discussed.

On April 14th 2008 it was announced that Gillen would be collaborating with the artist Greg Scott (artist) to expand the Warren Ellis's newuniversal mythos with "a story about killing the future" set in 1959 [ [http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/?p=1612 newuniversal 1959] ] .

Bibliography

*"Phonogram: Rue Britannia" (with Jamie McKelvie, 144 pages, Image, June 2007, ISBN 1-582406-94-4)
*"newuniversal: 1959" (with Greg Scott (artist), 48 pages, Marvel, July 2008)

Notes

References

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*comicbookdb|type=creator|id=8631|title=Kieron Gillen

External links

* [http://www.kierongillen.com/ Official homepage]
* [http://www.phonogramcomic.com/ "Phonogram" official site]
* [http://bustedwonder.com/ Busted Wonder] , a comic written by Gillen and illustrated by Charity Larrison
* [http://www.journalisted.com/kieron-gillen Journalisted - Articles by Kieron Gillen]


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