Tom Taylor Tom Taylor i(A125263 works by)
Born: Established: 1978 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Comic-book author, playwright, and screenwriter.

Born in Melbourne, Taylor began performing and writing for theatre in his mid-teens. As a comic-book writer, he has published extensively with major American comics publishers Marvel and DC, as well as Dark Horse Comics, Gestalt Publishing, Boom! Studios, Wildstorm, and IDW Publishing. For Marvel he has written for X-Men and Iron Man, but is best known for All-New Wolverine, which he has written since 2015. For DC, he is best known, perhaps, for his three years on Injustice (in which Superman, tricked by the Joker in murdering Lois Lane, builds a dictatorship against which other superheroes fight), but has also written for Green Lantern, Batman, Superman, and Justice League. His work for Dark Horse includes a range of works in the Star Wars universe, from standalone graphic novels to the sixteen-part Star Wars: Invasion comic book. In 2012, he wrote a short series with 2000AD, publisher of Judge Dredd comics.

As a playwright, his work has been produced across the world, including the Edinburgh Festival and in Brighton (UK) and Boston (USA), as well as widely across Australia.

In 2017, it was announced that Taylor has joined the Cleverman writers' room for series three. As a script writer, he has also scripted The Example (a short film based on his own play) and worked on the 'motion-comic' Mad Max, based on George Miller's films, which was released as a prequel for a video game from Avalanche Studios in 2014. In television, however, he is best known as the executive producer and creator of The Deep, the animated television series based on his comic series of the same name.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 joint winner Comic Arts Awards of Australia — Bronze Ledger for 'Suicide Squad: Bad Blood' (multiple artists).
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Neverlanders New York (City) : Razorbill , 2022 24289746 2022 single work graphic novel

'Bee and her fellow runaways are their own found family. So when a stranger named Paco saves her life, Bee invites him to join their crew, thinking he’s another lost teen. Someone else the world has overlooked. The truth is Paco’s not just a lost teen, he’s a Lost Boy from Neverland. And he needs Bee and the others to come back with him.

'When the group is then spirited away by a foul-mouthed Tinker Bell, they discover that Neverland is not some fun-filled hideaway. It's a war zone under siege by a horde of pirates with a merciless new leader who will stop at nothing to steal the land’s magic. Tink leads a fairy army that barely holds them at bay. Peter Pan is gone. And rest of the Lost Boys have been killed. Paco is all that remains . . . but he hopes that this group of teens will become the new Lost Ones. These young runaways may be Neverland’s only hope—but they’re about to learn that it’ll take a lot more than happy thoughts to win a war.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2023 joint winner Comic Arts Awards of Australia — Silver Ledger
2023 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Best Illustrated Book / Graphic Novel
2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
y separately published work icon John Constantine, Hellblazer : Rise and Fall Hellblazer : Rise and Fall California : DC Comics , 2021 21846838 2021 single work graphic novel

'What would you part with to avoid eternal damnation?

'At 12 years old, John Constantine and his friends try and fail to summon...something. Truth be told, they have no idea what they're doing on the riverbed on the outskirts of town. They're just messing with what they've been told not to mess with, and that's enough for John.

'Witness the adolescence of John Constantine, a rebellious and clueless kid who unwittingly unleashes a demon. A demon who haunts a nation 30 years later by selling the irredeemable one percent on a scam to get into heaven, one that causes evil men with angel wings to fall from the sky.

'Will John stop this demon from obtaining more empires and ruining the world as we know it?

'Will he be happy to let a few more rich bastards fall first, like a vindictive Robin Hood?

'Or will sacrifices need to be made?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2020 winner Australian Shadows Award — Comics/Graphic Novels
y separately published work icon DCeased : The Unkillables California : DC Comics , 2020 19387223 2020 single work graphic novel

'Discover what the villains of the DC Universe did during the events of DCeased

'From the hit series DCeased comes a villain's story about survival during the zombie apocalypse

'Vandal Savage hasn't lived for thousands of years without being prepared. Seconds after the virus breaks out, he has already made contact and begun to assemble a team of people to help him ride out the end of the world. Some of the world's greatest mercenaries and fighters are brought to his side, all tasked to protect Savage. All Vandal can offer them is survival.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2020 finalist Australian Shadows Award — Comics/Graphic Novels
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