Once a professional juggler and fire eater, Tom Taylor is now a comic book writer and award-winning playwright who has also written for radio, musicals, magazines, sketch comedy and film.
Taylor is the writer of the ongoing Star Wars: Invasion series for Dark Horse Comics with illustrator Colin Wilson. He is also the writer of the critically-acclaimed miniseries Star Wars: Blood Ties, a fully painted story about Boba and Jango Fett, and the Star Wars Adventures graphic novellas, Luke Skywalker & the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes and 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. He has recently been announced as the man who gets to write “The Death of Boba Fett” as well as an upcoming Miniseries on the return of Darth Maul!
Tom is also a writer for DC Comics, most recently writing a two-part stand-alone Green Lantern, Sinestro and Brainiac story for the DCU Online Legends series due out in October and November. He was also the series writer of the DC/Wildstorm title, The Authority and has more unannounced work coming up in the DCU.
Tom Taylor is also the creator of the hit new series The Deep, with artist James Brouwer, about a multi-ethnic family of underwater explorers who live on a submarine. His other creator-owned works include the series, Rombies (Roman Zombies with Skye Ogden), the upcoming Believe with Emily Smith and The Example, all through Gestalt Comics. The Example was recently optioned and filmed by Staple Fiction, for which Tom wrote the screenplay. Taylor’s other short film A4 to A3 (a musical about love in a photocopy store) has screened in film festivals across North America.
As well as his work with DC comics, Gestalt Comics and Dark Horse, Taylor recently announced upcoming work with British comics giant, 2000 AD.
Tom’s theatre writing has been studied at Melbourne University and the University of Southern California and his plays have been produced across four continents. His graphic novels have been reprinted and translated into Spanish, German and French… at least Tom assumes they have… he can’t read them, so they could say anything.
Tom’s regular art partner is COLIN WILSON, follow the link to find out all about him!
Tom will be conducting at least one publically accessible Q&A panel during the course of each expo.
