Kieron Gillen

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Kieron Gillen at New York Comic Con 2011.

Kieron Gillen (* 1975 ) is a British comic book writer and former computer game journalist . With his manifesto published in 2004 about a new form of game reporting, he is one of the main exponents of New Games Journalism. As a comic writer, he created the Phonogram comic series with Jamie McKelvie and worked for Marvel Comics on Journey into Mystery and Uncanny X-Men , among others .

Career

Game journalism

Gillen worked as a game journalist for the magazines PC Gamer UK , The Escapist , Amiga Power (under the pseudonym "C-Monster"), Wired , The Guardian , Edge , Games Developer , Develop , MCV , GamesMaster and PC Format , among others . Gillen was also the founder and one of the main contributors of the journalistic game website Rock, Paper, Shotgun and game tester for Eurogamer .

He gained fame for his manifesto published on March 23, 2004 on New Games Journalism , which he drafted after a pub discussion with friends about game reporting and which essentially represents a transfer of Tom Wolfe's model of New Journalism to computer game journalism . In his manifesto, Gillen campaigns for a change in game reporting, away from objective program analysis and towards a more subjective description of one's own gaming experiences, prepared with anecdotes and cultural references, similar to a travel report. In this way, the focus should be on the player, not the software. Gillen's approach did not meet with universal approval and was critically discussed, but it also found advocates and proved to be influential for game reporting, which, when assessing games, increasingly has to deal with adapting the course of the game to one's own style of play. On March 26, 2014, Gillen took part in an anniversary discussion on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the manifesto and its aftermath.

Gillen described himself as a fan of the work of the game developer Warren Spector , on whose games, in particular the Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows titles developed by Ion Storm , he wrote positive articles. In September 2010, Gillen announced on Rock, Paper, Shotgun that in future he would mainly devote himself to writing comics and therefore no longer wanted to work full-time as a game journalist.

In 2000, Gillen was the first games journalist to receive an award from the Periodical Publishers Association (now the Professional Publishers Association, PPA) as a New Specialist Consumer Journalist. In 2012 he received the Games Media Award as Games Media Legend. Gillen has also appeared as a guest speaker at gaming industry conferences.

comics

Gillen's work includes both print and online comics. Among other things, he wrote for Warhammer Monthly and Chaos League . From 2003 Gillen worked with the illustrator Jamie McKelvie on a comic strip entitled Save Point for the Official PlayStation Magazine UK. In 2006 Gillen published his "first real comic", the pop-music urban fantasy Phonogram , again in collaboration with Jamie McKelvie. Comic author Warren Ellis praised the title as “ one of the few truly essential comics of 2006 ” (German: “one of the few really important comics of 2006”). The first issue was published via Image Comics in August 2006, the first series comprised six issues. The second series comprised seven issues and was published from December 2008.

On April 14, 2008 Gillen announced a collaboration with the illustrator Greg Scott for a work on Warren Ellis' newuniversal myth, besides he wrote the Warhammer fantasy comic Crown of Destruction . The second Phonogram series, entitled The Singles Club , started in December 2008 and consisted of seven issues. These were so-called one shots , i.e. H. independent narratives in terms of content. All actions take place on the same night. From Marvel Comics , he received an order for a Dazzler -narrative and a one-shot and a miniseries about Beta Ray Bill . Further orders followed in late 2009. On HeroesCon it was announced that Killen would write a dark reign tie-in for the miniseries Dark Avengers: Ares . At Comic Con in Chicago in 2009 it was announced that Gillen would be working with Steven Sanders on a new ongoing Marvel series called SWORD .

Gillen followed J. Michael Straczynski as the author of the Thor comic series . The episodes 604 to 614 came from Gillen's pen. In late 2010, he began his own ongoing comic series Generation Hope , an offshoot of X-Men , which follows on from the end of the Second Coming story . Gillen wrote the first twelve issues, then turned the series over to James Asmus.

After an initial collaboration as a co-author with Matt Fraction from issue 531 of the Uncanny X-Men , Gillen became the sole author from issue 534.1 (2011). In his creative time fell the publication of the crossover comic series Fear Itself , which resulted in links to numerous comic series such as Uncanny X-Men , and the resetting of the numbering in connection with the crossover series X-Men: Schism . His job ended with a crossover with Avengers vs. X-Men in issue 20. He also wrote the five-part miniseries AvX: Consequences , which looked at the implications of this event.

Gillen returned to Marvel's Asgard franchise in 2011 when he took over the authorship of Journey into Mystery (the original title of the Thor series), beginning with issue 622 . Its activity ended with issue 645 in October 2012. As part of the relaunch of Marvel NOW! Gillen wrote two books, Invincible Iron Man (with Greg Land) and Young Avengers (with McKelvie). He wrote the series The Heat for Avatar Press and the 2013 series Three on the Helots of Sparta for Image Comics . A third, six-part phonogram series entitled The Immaterial Girl was also announced for 2013 .

bibliography

Image comics

  • Phonogram (with Jamie McKelvie, 2006 –...), summarized as:
  • This is a Souvenir : Sweeping the Nation (with Jamie McKelvie, Anthology Graphic Novel , 208 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-60706-048-5 )
  • The CBLDF Presents Liberty Annual '12: Unleashed (with Nate Bellegarde, 2012)
  • Three # 1–5 (with Ryan Kelly, 2013–2014)
  • The Wicked + The Divine # 1- (with Jamie McKelvie, 2014 –...)

Marvel Comics

  • newuniversal: 1959 (with Greg Scott, one-shot , 2008)
  • X-Men :
    • Manifest Destiny # 5: Dazzler: Solo (with Sara Pichelli, 2009), in: X-Men: Manifest Destiny (tpb, 200 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3951-6 )
    • Origins: Sabretooth (with Dan Panosian, one-shot, 2009), in: X-Men Origins (tpb, 192 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3452-2 )
    • Dark Reign: The Cabal : The Judgment of Namor (with Carmine Di Giandomenico, one-shot, 2009), in: Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Utopia (hc, 368 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4233-9 ; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4234-7 )
    • SWORD # 1–5 (with Steve Sanders, 2010), summarized as: SWORD: No Time to Breathe (tpb, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4076-X )
    • Generation Hope :
      • The Future is a Four-Letter Word (tpb, 152 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4719-5 ), contains:
        • The Future is a Four-Letter Word (with Salvador Espin, in # 1–4, 2011)
        • The Daddy Issue (with Jamie McKelvie, in No. 5, 2011)
      • Schism (tpb, 168 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5242-3 ), contains:
        • The Ward (with Salvador Espin, in # 6-8, 2011)
        • Better (with Jamie McKelvie, in # 9, 2011)
        • Schism (with Tim Seeley, in # 10-11, 2011)
        • Half as Bright (with Steve Sanders, in No. 12, 2011)
    • Uncanny X-Men :
      • Quarantine (tpb, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5225-3 ), contains:
        • Quarantine (with Matt Fraction and Greg Land , in v1 # 531-534, 2011)
      • Breaking Point (tpb, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5226-1 ), contains:
        • Press Release (with Carlos Pacheco , in v1 # 534.1, 2011)
        • Breaking Point (with Terry Dodson , in v1 # 535–538, 2011)
        • Losing Hope (with Ibraim Roberson, in v1 No. 539, 2011)
      • Fear Itself (hc, 120 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5797-2 ; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5227-X ), contains:
        • Fear Itself (with Greg Land, in v1 # 540–543, 2011)
        • Uncanny (with Greg Land, in v1 # 544, 2011)
      • Everything is Sinister (hc, 112 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5993-2 ; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5994-0 ), contains:
        • Everything is Sinister (with Carlos Pacheco, in v2 # 1–3, 2012)
        • A Phalanx of One (with Brandon Peterson , in v2 No. 4, 2012)
      • Tabula Rasa (hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5995-9 ; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5996-7 ), contains:
        • Tabula Rasa (with Greg Land, in v2 # 5–8, 2012)
        • Prison Break (with Carlos Pacheco, in v2 # 9–10, 2012)
      • AvX: Book 1 (hc, 112 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5997-5 ; tpb, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-5998-3 ), contains:
        • Avengers vs. X-Men (with Greg Land and Billy Tan, in v2 # 11–13, 2012)
        • Everything is Sinister: Redux (with Dustin Weaver, in v2 No. 14, 2012)
      • AvX: Book 2 (hc, 144 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6529-0 ), contains:
        • This Strange, Unpleasant Land (with Daniel Acuña, in v2 # 15–17, 2012)
        • The Passion of Scott Summers (with Ron Garney and Dale Eaglesham , in v2 # 18-19, 2012)
        • The Fallout (with Carlos Pacheco, in v2 No. 20, 2012)
    • Regenesis (with Billy Tan, one-shot, 2011), in: X-Men: Schism (hc, 168 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5668-2 ; tpb, 2012, ISBN 1-84653-502-6 )
    • Avengers vs. X-Men :
      • AvX: VS # 2: Spider-Man vs. Colossus (with Salvador Larocca, 2012), in: Avengers vs. X-Men (hc, 568 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6317-4 )
      • Consequences # 1–5 (with Tom Raney, Steve Kurth, Scot Eaton , Mark Brooks, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, 2012), summarized as: AVX: Consequences (tpb, 120 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6646-7 )
  • Thor :
    • Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter (tpb, 104 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4232-0 ), contains:
      • Beta Ray Bill: The Green of Eden (with Dan Brereton, one-shot, 2009)
      • Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter # 1–3 (with Jose Angel Cano Lopez, 2009)
    • Thor: Ultimate Collection (tpb, 312 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5922-3 ), contains:
      • Latverian Prometeus (with Billy Tan, in # 604–606, 2010)
      • Siege: Ragnarok (with Billy Tan and Richard Elson, in # 607–609, 2010)
      • New Mutants # 11: Hel's Valkyrie (with Niko Henrichon, 2010)
      • Siege: Loki (with Jamie McKelvie, one-shot, 2010)
      • Siege: Epilogue (with Doug Braithwaite, in No. 610, 2010)
      • The Fine Print (with Richard Elson and Doug Braithwaite, in # 611–614, 2010)
    • Journey into Mystery (with Doug Braithwaite, Richard Elson, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Alan Davis and Stephanie Hans, 2011–2012), summarized as:
  • Dark Avengers: Ares # 1–3 (with Manuel Garcia, 2009–2010), summarized as: Dark Avengers: Ares (tpb, 192 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4406-4 )
  • The Mystic Hands of Doctor Strange : The Cure (with Frazer Irving, one-shot, 2010)
  • World War Hulks: Spider-Man vs. Thor # 1–2 (with Jorge Molina and Paul Pelletier , 2010)
  • Captain America and Batroc : Traceur (with Renato Arlem, one-shot, 2011)
  • Iron Man Vol. 5:
    • Believe (hc, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6833-8 ), contains:
      • Believe (with Greg Land , in # 1–5, 2012–2013)
    • The Secret Origin of Tony Stark (hc, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6834-6 ), contains:
      • The Godkiller (with Greg Land, in # 6-8, 2013)
      • The Secret Origin of Tony Stark (Prologue & part 1-2) (with Dale Eaglesham , in # 9-11, 2013)
    • The Secret Origin of Tony Stark - Book 2 (hc, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6835-4 ), contains:
      • The Secret Origin of Tony Stark (with Dale Eaglesham, in # 12, 2013)
      • The Secret Origin of Tony Stark: The Best Offense (with Greg Land and Carlo Pagulayan, in # 13-16, 2013)
      • The Secret Origin of Tony Stark: Conclusion (with Carlo Pagulayan, in # 17, 2013)
    • Iron Metropolitan (hc, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8942-4 ), contains:
      • Iron Metropolitan (with Joe Bennett, in # 19–22, 2013–2014)
      • Inhumanity (with Agustin Padilla, in # 20.INH, 2014)
    • Rings of the Mandarin (hc, 112 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-5482-5 ), contains:
      • Rings of the Mandarin (with Luke Ross and Joe Bennett, in # 23.NOW – 28, 2014)
  • Young Avengers vol. 2:
    • Style> Substance (tpb, 128 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6708-0 ), contains:
      • The New World (with Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton, in Marvel NOW! Point One , 2012)
      • Style> Substance (with Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton, in # 1, 2013)
      • DYS (with Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton, in # 2, 2013)
      • Parent Teacher Disorganization (with Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton, in # 3, 2013)
      • Deus Ex Machine Gunner (with Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton, in # 4, 2013)
      • The Art of Saving the World (with Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton, in # 5, 2013)
    • Alternative Cultures (tpb, 112 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-6709-9 )
      • The Toll (with Kate Brown, in # 6, 2013)
      • Breakfast Meet (with Jamie McKelvie, in # 7, 2013)
      • Share Your Universe (with Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton, in # 8, 2013)
      • The Kiss and The Make Up (with Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton, in # 9, 2013)
      • Mother's Day (with Jamie McKelvie, in # 10, 2013)
    • Mic-Drop at the Edge of Time and Space (tpb, 112 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8530-5 )
      • Stage Nervous Breakdown (with Jamie McKelvie, in # 11, 2013)
      • Young Avengers (with Jamie McKelvie, in # 12-13, 2013)
      • Resolution (with Jamie McKelvie, Emma Vieceli, Christian Ward, Annie Wu, Becky Cloonan, Ming Doyle, and Joe Quinones, in # 14–15, 2013–2014)
  • Original Sin: Iron Man vs. Hulk No. 2, # 4 (with Luke Ross, 2014)

Other publishers

Web links

Commons : Kieron Gillen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

To person

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kieron's Personal Blog
  2. ↑ Kieron Gillen On 'Young Avengers': 'It's My Teenage Symphony To God' ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / comicsalliance.com
  3. ↑ Kieron Gillen: The New Games Journalism ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gillen.cream.org
  4. ^ LB Jeffries: The New Games Journalism . In: Popmatters . June 17, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ When NGJ Went Wrong: Experiential Games Journalism
  6. ↑ The Escapist: Kieron Gillen Post Manifesto
  7. ^ Columbia Journalism Review: A new course in video games journalism
  8. ^ Keith Stuart: Event: Kieron Gillen and the new games journalism . The Guardian.
  9. ↑ Gillen, Kieron. Half-Life: On Turning 35 and Leaving RPS . Rock, Paper Shotgun, September 30, 2010
  10. ↑ PTC New Journalist of the Year Awards ( Memento from February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Edge : Edge wins Best Games Magazine award at Games Media Awards ( Memento from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Free Play 2005 ( Memento from August 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Animex International Festival of Animation & Computer Games ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / animex.tees.ac.uk
  14. ↑ Phonogram ( Memento of March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Previewing Ten Pages of Image Comics' Phonogram # 1 ( Memento of 14 April 2007 at the Internet Archive ), Newsarama
  16. ↑ newuniversal 1959
  17. ↑ Kieron Gillen on Warhammer: Crown of Destruction . Newsarama. October 13, 2008
  18. ↑ SINGLES CLUB: Gillen & McKelvie on Phonogram 2 . Comic Book Resources . September 22, 2008
  19. ↑ Kieron Gillen: 'Like A Particularly Geeky Grant Morrison Character' . Comics bulletin . April 29, 2009.
  20. ↑ 3 conversations with Kieron Gillen: Phonogram, music and comics , Mindless Ones, August 3, 2009
  21. ↑ HeroesCon: Kieron Gillen Talks Dark Avengers: Ares . Comic Book Resources. June 21, 2009.
  22. ^ Richard George & Jesse Schedeen: Taking Control of SWORD . IGN. August 10, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
  23. ^ Marc Strom: Chicago Con '09: SWORD Ongoing . Marvel.com. August 10, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
  24. ↑ Dave Richards: Kieron Gillen Talks Thor . Comic Book Resources. August 24, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
  25. ↑ Dave Richards: Gillen Sends "Thor" to Hell . Comic Book Resources. May 21, 2010. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
  26. ↑ Dave Richards: CCI EXCLUSIVE: Gillen Ushers in "Generation Hope" . Comic Book Resources. July 23, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  27. ↑ Jesse Schedeen: SDCC 10: The Next Gen of X-Men . IGN. July 25, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  28. ^ Albert Ching: SDCC 2010: GENERATION HOPE Gets An Ongoing in November . Newsarama. July 29, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  29. ^ Albert Ching: Kieron Gillen Introduces the Five Lights of GENERATION HOPE . Newsarama. November 3, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  30. ↑ Dave Richards: ONE TO: James Asmus Part 1 - "Generation Hope" . Comic Book Resources. November 23, 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
  31. ↑ Dave Richards: Gillen Prepares His 'Uncanny' Solo . Comic Book Resources. January 18, 2011
  32. ^ A b Albert Ching: Leaving UNCANNY X-MEN has CONSEQUENCES for Kieron Gillen . September 4, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
  33. ↑ Dave Richards: Gillen & McKelvie Assemble New Volume of 'Young Avengers' . October 9, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
  34. ↑ Michael Leader: Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie interview . Den of Geek. November 3, 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2009.
  35. ↑ Nick Cavicchio: Kieron Gillen Talks Creator-Owned . comicbooked.com. October 28, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
  36. ↑ Kieron Gillen: Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl . February 2, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Gillen, Kieron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British game journalist and comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975