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Jonathan Hickman
File:Hickman2012.jpg
Jonathan Hickman on September 29, 2012
Born (1972-09-03) September 3, 1972 (age 52)
South Carolina, U.S.
Area(s)Writer, Penciller, Inker, Letterer, Colourist
Notable works
The Avengers
East of West
Fantastic Four
FF
Infinity
The Manhattan Projects
The New Avengers
The Nightly News
Secret Warriors
Secret Wars
X-Men
http://www.pronea.com

Jonathan Hickman (born September 3, 1972) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF, and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write The Avengers and The New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. In 2015, he wrote the crossover event Secret Wars.

Early life[]

Jonathan Hickman was born and raised in South Carolina. He graduated from South Florence High School in Florence, South Carolina.[1] After high school, Hickman earned a degree in Architecture.[2]

Career[]

Early work[]

Hickman initially worked in Web and CD-ROM development. He then transitioned into work as an art director and advertising work.[2]

Comics[]

Hickman is the creator of The Nightly News,[3] published by Image Comics, and has also worked on Marvel Comics' Legion of Monsters, on the story "N'Kantu, the Living Mummy: MustDie/EatSoul."[4]

He has designed covers for Virgin Comics, most significantly Andy Diggle's Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper[5] and Garth Ennis' Seven Brothers. Hickman wrote "The Core" for Top Cow's Pilot Season in 2008. He has created other series for Image: Pax Romana;[6] Red Mass for Mars, with Ryan Bodenheim;[7][8] Transhuman, with J. M. Ringuet; and The Red Wing.[9]

On February 12, 2008, Hickman began writing his "Concentric Circles" column for iFanboy.[10]

He collaborated with Brian Michael Bendis and editor Tom Brevoort on the Secret Warriors series[11][12] which follows Nick Fury and a group of superpowered operatives as they undertake espionage operations in the wake of Secret Invasion. Hickman later wrote a S.H.I.E.L.D. limited series for Marvel.[13][14][15][16] He and artist Sean Chen crafted the Dark Reign: Fantastic Four limited series (May–Sept. 2009).[17][18] Hickman then became the writer on the main Fantastic Four series with issue #570 (Oct. 2009) with art by Dale Eaglesham. In the storyline "Three", which concluded in Fantastic Four #587 (March 2011), the Human Torch appears to die stopping a horde of monsters from the other-dimensional Negative Zone. The series ended with the following issue, #588, and relaunched in March 2011 as simply FF.[19][20][21] Hickman finished his run of Fantastic Four in 2012 and became the writer of The Avengers and The New Avengers.[22][23] In 2013, Hickman wrote the Infinity limited series.[24] He wrote the Secret Wars limited series in 2015.[25]

In 2019, Hickman returned to Marvel to head-up the X-Men franchise, starting with a pair of miniseries titled House of X and Powers of X. These books were followed by Dawn of X, a relaunch of the X-Men books intended to tell the story of the X-Men in a new status quo established by Hickman, referred to as the "Head of X", with all creative teams working closely under his supervision.[26]

Awards and nominations[]

  • 2008: Nominated for "Best Limited Series" Eisner Award for Nightly News.[27]
  • 2011: Nominated for "Best Continuing or Limited Series" Harvey Award for Fantastic Four[28]
  • 2013: Nominated for "Best Continuing Series" and "Best Writer" Eisner Award for The Manhattan Projects[29]
  • 2014: Nominated for "Best Continuing Series" for East of West and "Best Writer" Eisner Award for East of West, The Manhattan Projects, Avengers, and Infinity[30]

Bibliography[]

Image Comics[]

  • The Nightly News #1–6 (script and art, 2006–2007) collected as The Nightly News (tpb, 184 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-58240-766-5)
  • Popgun vol.1: "Black Circle White: The Recycle Soul Project" (script and art, anthology graphic novel, 455 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-58240-824-6)
  • Pax Romana #1–4 (script and art, 2007–2008) collected as Pax Romana (tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-58240-873-4)
  • Transhuman #1–4 (with J. M. Ringuet, 2008) collected as Transhuman (tpb, 120 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-58240-922-6)
  • Red Mass for Mars #1–4 (with Ryan Bodenheim, 2008–2010) collected as Red Mass for Mars (tpb, 120 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-58240-923-4)
  • Comic Book Tattoo: "1000 Oceans" (script and art, anthology graphic novel, 480 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-58240-965-X)
  • The Red Wing #1–4 (with Nick Pitarra, 2011) collected as Red Wing (tpb, 140 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-60706-479-0)
  • Secret (with Ryan Bodenheim, 2012–2014)
  • The Manhattan Projects (with Nick Pitarra, 2012–2016)
  • East of West (script, with Nick Dragotta, 2013–2019)
  • The Dying & The Dead (with Ryan Bodenheim, 2015-2017)
  • The Black Monday Murders (with Tomm Coker, 2016-...)
  • Decorum (with Mike Huddleston, 2020-...)

Marvel Comics[]

  • Legion of Monsters: Satana: "The Living Mummy" (script and art, one-shot, 2007) collected in Legion of Monsters (hc, 280 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2754-2)
  • Secret Warriors (with Brian Michael Bendis, Stefano Caselli, Ed McGuinness, Alessandro Vitti, Gianluca Gugliotta and Mirko Colak, 2009–2011) collected as:
  • Astonishing Tales vol. 2 #1–6: "Bobby and Sam in Mojoworld" (script and art, with Nick Pitarra, 2009)
  • Fantastic Four
    • Fantastic Four (#570–588, 600–611)
      • Dark Reign: Fantastic Four (tpb, 128 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3908-7) collects:
      • Volume 1 (hc, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4317-3; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3688-6) collects:
        • "Solve Everything" (with Dale Eaglesham, in #570–572, 2009)
        • "Adventures on Nu-World" (with Neil Edwards, in #573, 2010)
        • "Days of Future Franklin!" (with Neil Edwards, in #574, 2010)
      • Volume 2 (hc, 112 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4716-0; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4541-9) collects:
        • "Prime Elements" (with Dale Eaglesham, in #575–578, 2010)
      • Volume 3 (hc, 112 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4717-9; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4718-7) collects:
        • "The Future Foundation" (with Neil Edwards, in #579, 2010)
        • "The Frank-tastic Four" (with Neil Edwards, in #580, 2010)
        • "When Everything's Lost, the Battle is Won... Because of All These Things I've Done" (with Neil Edwards, in #581–582, 2010)
      • Volume 4 (hc, 184 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4891-4; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5143-5) collects:
        • "Three" (with Steve Epting, Nick Dragotta and Mark Brooks, #583–588, 2010–2011)
      • Volume 5 (hc, 184 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6152-X) collects:
        • "Forever" (with Steve Epting, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Leinil Francis Yu, and Farel Dalrymple, #600–604, 2011–2012)
      • Volume 6 (hc, 184 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6152-X) collects:
        • "End of the Line" (with Ron Garney, Mike Choi, Giuseppe Camuncoli, and Ryan Stegman, #605.1 & 605–611, 2012–2013)
    • FF: (#1–23)
      • Volume 1 (hc, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5144-3; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5145-1) collects:
        • "The Club" (with Steve Epting, in #1, 2011)
        • "Doom Nation" (with Steve Epting, in #2, 2011)
        • "Whatever Happened to All Those Reeds?" (with Steve Epting, in #3, 2011)
        • "The Beating of Drums, The Sound of War" (with Barry Kitson, in #4–5, 2011)
      • Volume 2 (hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5769-7; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5770-0) collects:
        • "The War of Four Cities" (with Greg Tocchini, Steve Epting, and Barry Kitson, in #6–11, 2011)
      • Volume 3 (hc, 120 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6312-3) collects:
        • "All Hope Lies in Doom" (with Juan Bobillo and Nick Dragotta, in #12–15, 2012)
        • "One Step Beyond" (with Nick Dragotta and Steve Epting, in #16, 2012)
        • "The Roommate Experiment" (with Nick Dragotta, in #17, 2012)
      • Volume 4 (hc, 120 pages, 2012, ISBN 9780785163145) collects: ‘’FF’’ 17–23
  • Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu: "Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu and Deadpool in: The Annual Race to Benefit Various and Sundry Evil Organizations and Also the Homeless. Now with Beer and Hot Dogs" (with Kody Chamberlain, one-shot, 2009)
  • S.H.I.E.L.D. (with Dustin Weaver, Nick Pitarra, Zachary Flagg, Kevin Mellon and Gabriel Hernandez, 2010–2012) collected as:
  • Ultimate Comics
  • Avengers vs. X-Men #4, #6 (with John Romita Jr. and Olivier Coipel) collected in AvX (hc, 568 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6317-4)
  • The Avengers
    • Avengers (with Jerome Opeña, Andy Kubert, Dustin Weaver, Mike Deodato, Nick Spencer, Stefano Caselli, Leinil Francis Yu, Esad Ribić, and Salvador Larroca)
    • The New Avengers (with Steve Epting, Mike Deodato, Simone Bianchi, Rags Morales, Valerio Schiti and Kev Walker)
    • Avengers World (with Nick Spencer, Rags Morales, and Stefano Caselli)
    • Time Runs Out (with Kev Walker, Mike Deodato, Valerio Schiti, Stefano Caselli, Dustin Weaver, Jim Cheung, Mike Perkins, Szymon Kudranski, Mike Mayhew, Dalibor Talajić and Nick Bradshaw)
      • Volume 1 (collects Avengers #35–37 and The New Avengers #24–25, hc, 144 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9341-3)
      • Volume 2 (collects Avengers #38–39 and The New Avengers #26–28, hc, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9372-3)
      • Volume 3 (collects Avengers #40–42 and The New Avengers #29–30, hc, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9222-0)
      • Volume 4 (collects Avengers #43–44 and The New Avengers #31–33, hc, 152 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9224-7)
  • Infinity (with Jim Cheung, Jerome Opeña, and Dustin Weaver, 2013)
    • "Infinity" (collects Infinity #1–6, Avengers #14–23, The New Avengers #7–12, and Infinity: Against the Tide Infinite Comic #1–2, hc, 632 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8422-8)
  • Secret Wars #1–9 (with Esad Ribić)
  • X-Men
    • House of X #1–6 (with Pepe Larraz, 2019)
    • Powers of X #1–6 (with R.B. Silva, 2019)
    • X-Men #1–ongoing (with Leinil Francis Yu, R.B. Silva, Matteo Buffagni, and Mahmud Asrar, 2019-ongoing)
    • New Mutants Vol. 4 #1-2, 5, 7 (with Rod Reis, 2019-2020)
    • Incoming! #1 (with R.B. Silva, one-shot, 2019)
    • Giant-Size X-Men
      • Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost #1 (with Russell Dauterman, one-shot, 2020)
      • Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler #1 (with Alan Davis, one-shot, 2020)
      • Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto #1 (with Ramon Perez, one-shot, 2020)
      • Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex #1 (with Rod Reis, one-shot, 2020)
      • Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1 (with Russell Dauterman, one-shot, 2020)
  • Spider-Man: Full Circle #1 (with Chris Bachalo, one-shot, 2019)

Other publishers[]

  • Virgin Comics:
    • Gamekeeper #2 (cover only, 2007)
    • 7 Brothers tpb (cover only, 2007)
    • Voodoo Child #3 (cover only, 2007)
    • Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma: Panchatantra #4 (cover only, 2008)
  • Pilot Season: The Core (with Kenneth Rocafort, one-shot, Top Cow, 2008) collected in Pilot Season 2008 (tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-60706-043-4)
  • Drafted #11 (cover only, Devil's Due Publishing, 2008)
  • Cages (cover only, Insomnia Publications, 2009)
  • God Is Dead (ongoing, with Di Amorim, Avatar Press, 2013– 2016 )

References[]

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hudson, Laura (September 18, 2007). "Jonathan Hickman: The Design of Things to Come". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2020. {{cite web}}:
  3. ↑ Khouri, Andy (February 7, 2007). "Behind The Nightly News". CBR.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2012. {{cite web}}:
  4. ↑ "Legion of Monsters: Satana #1". Marvel Comics. 2007. Archived from the original on July 9, 2017. {{cite web}}:
  5. ↑ Weiland, Jonah (January 18, 2007). "Ultimate Killer: Diggle talks Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper". CBR.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2012. {{cite web}}:
  6. ↑ Khouri, Andy (October 16, 2007). "Hickman Saves the Future, Destroys the Past in Pax Romana". CBR.com. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013. Retrieved November 9, 2013. {{cite web}}: Archive requires scrolldown
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  8. ↑ Sullivan, Michael Patrick (July 3, 2008). "Hickman & Bodenheim Hold A Red Mass for Mars". CBR.com. Archived from the original on June 27, 2013. {{cite web}}: Archive requires scrolldown
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  11. ↑ Richards, Dave (June 29, 2008). "WW Chicago: Hickman & Bendis on Secret Warriors". CBR.com. Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. {{cite web}}:
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  16. ↑ Arrant, Chris (April 7, 2010). "Writer Hickman Reveals the History of Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D.". Newsarama. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131110022718/http://www.newsarama.com/5040-writer-hickman-reveals-the-history-of-marvel-s-s-h-i-e-l-d.html. Retrieved April 8, 2010. 
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Preceded by
Mark Millar 		Fantastic Four writer
2009–2012 		Succeeded by
Matt Fraction
Preceded by
Brian Michael Bendis 		The Avengers writer
2012–2015 		Succeeded by
Mark Waid
Preceded by
Brian Michael Bendis 		The New Avengers writer
2013–2015 		Succeeded by
Al Ewing
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