| Tom Taylor | |
|---|---|
 Taylor in 2017 | |
| Born | 29 November 1978 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Area(s) | Writer |
Notable works | The Deep (TV series) Neverlanders Injustice: Gods Among Us DCeased All-New Wolverine X-Men Red Star Wars: Blood Ties Superman: Son of Kal-El The Example |
| Awards | Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series Children's Book of the Year Award and others. |
| tomtaylormade | |
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]
Taylor was born in Melbourne, Australia.
Writing many works for DC Comics, Marvel and Star Wars, Taylor is the creator, with James Brouwer, of the all-ages adventure graphic novel The Deep: Here Be Dragons and its sequel The Vanishing Island published by Gestalt Publishing and Boom! Studios. The Deep was optioned by Technicolor. 65 episodes have screened of the CG animated series, so far, across four seasons, with Taylor serving as the co-creator, head writer and executive producer.[2]
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.
Taylor is also the co-creator of Seven Secrets which, at the time of its release, was the highest launching original series in the history of Boom! Studios.[3]
In 2023, Taylor's Neverlanders, with Jon Sommariva, became the first graphic novel to win the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers.[4]
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, Titans and Earth Two.[5]
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.[6]
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[7] with artist Chris Scalf, and Star Wars: Invasion, with illustrator Colin Wilson.[8] April 2012 saw the start of Taylor and Scalf's new Blood Ties series provocatively titled Boba Fett is Dead as reported by CNN.[9] 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. Dark Horse Vice President Randy Stradley says that Tom Taylor has taken to writing comics faster than anyone he's ever seen.[10]
Taylor also wrote The Authority, published under the Wildstorm imprint, starting with issue #22 in May 2010 until the end of the Wildstorm imprint.[11] 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.[12]
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.[13]
