Fabian Nicieza

Fabian Nicieza will be appearing Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at booth 501. Fabian Nicieza is a comic book writer best known for his work on Deadpool, Cable, X-Men, X-Force, New Warriors, Cable and Deadpool, Gambit, Legion Lost, Red Robin, and Thunderbolts. He is the creator of Deadpool, Shatterstar, Domino, and X-Force (alongside artist Rob Liefeld), as well as Hydra Bob, and Weasel.

Fabian’s credits also include: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Batwing, Teen Titans, Trinity, Magneto Rex, Magneto: Dark Seduction, Psi-Force, Classic X-Men, Alpha Flight, The Avengers, Avengers Spotlight, Nomad, NFL SuperPro, Adventures of Captain America, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man: The Final Adventure, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Justice League: Midsummer Nightmare, Turok, Troublemakers, Citizen V, X-Men Forever, Hawkeye, Supermen of America, JLA: Created Equal, Justice League Adventures, The Blackburne Covenant, Action Comics, Nightwing, Robin, Convergence: Justice League of America, Convergence: Titans, Convergence: Superboy, Uncanny X-Men, and Azrael.

In 1991, Nicieza joined with artist Rob Liefeld in co-plotting and writing The New Mutants. In those issues Liefeld and Nicieza created the characters Deadpool, Shatterstar, and Domino, as well as the super team, X-Force. Liefeld and Nicieza then produced an ongoing X-Force title. By the end of 1992, Nicieza became the writer of The X-Men, beginning with #12. For the next three years, Nicieza was among the writers of The X-Men franchise during a time of such popular, multi-series crossover story arcs as “X-Cutioner’s Song”, “Phalanx Covenant” and “Age of Apocalypse”.

During this period Nicieza wrote the first Cable miniseries as well as the first few issues of the character’s subsequent ongoing series. He also wrote the first solo Deadpool series, Deadpool: the Circle Chase in 1993. These series expanded the characters’ personalities and established key background information for both characters, all things which were later used by other writers on those characters’ subsequent ongoing books.

In 1996 Nicieza joined Acclaim Comics as senior vice-president and editor-in-chief. He was charged with revamping the companies intellectual properties which had previously formed Valiant Comics’ Valiant Universe. Nicieza as editor oversaw the new version, dubbed “VH2”, which re-imagined characters such as Solar, X-O Manowar, and Ninjak.

In 1999, Nicieza began writing Thunderbolts with #34. He continued to write the book up until #75 when the title was revamped. He returned to The Thunderbolts in 2004 initially in the Avengers/Thunderbolts miniseries, then later in the New Thunderbolts series. In 2003 Nicieza began a 50 issue run on Cable and Deadpool. His recent credits include Legion Lost, Teen Titans, Batwing, Convergence: Justice League of America, Convergence: Titans, and Convergence: Superboy for DC Comics, as well as Age of Apocalypse (2015), and Deadpool & Cable: Split Second for Marvel Comics.