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APPEARANCE NOTES
One of Australia’s finest, Tom Taylor is an award-winning creator, who has written dozens of titles, for publishers including DC and Marvel, IDW, Gestalt and Boom Studios!
With current work in the X-Men and Justice League universes, as well as creator owned titles like The Deep, which has been turned into an animated series, helmed by Tom himself, and Neverlanders, created with fellow Metro Comic Con guest Jon Sommariva, Tom is currently Australia’s most prominent comic writer!
Come and meet Tom Taylor at Metro Comic Con – 13th & 14th July, Melbourne 2023.
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About
Tom Taylor
Tom Taylor was born in Melbourne, Australia.
Taylor is currently the writer of 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 recently written Batman/Superman, Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion and Superior Iron Man.
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 Comics and Boom Studios. The Deep was optioned by Technicolor and is now a 52 episode CG animated series, with Taylor serving as creator/head writer.
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.
His plays have been produced at the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Arts Centre 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 with artist Chris Scalf, and Star Wars: Invasion, with illustrator Colin Wilson. April 2012 saw the start of Taylor and Scalf’s new Blood Ties series provocatively titled Boba Fett is Dead as reported by CNN. 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.
Taylor also wrote The Authority, published under the Wildstorm imprint, starting with issue #22 in May 2010 until the end of the Wildstorm imprint. 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.
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