Once a professional juggler and fire eater, Tom Taylor is now a comic book writer and award-winning playwright who has also written for television, radio, musicals, film, magazines, satirical news and sketch comedy.
Taylor is currently the writer of Star Wars: Invasion, an ongoing series for Dark Horse Comics with illustrator Colin Wilson. Star Wars: Invasion #0 was nominated for a ‘Diamond Gem Award’ in the ‘2009 Comic Book of the Year Over $3.00′ category.
Tom has been announced as the new writer of the DC/Wildstorm flagship title, The Authority. This kicks ass.
February saw the release of Taylor’s 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 has also penned Star Wars Adventures: The Will of Darth Vader, which is set to appear later in 2010. Randy Stradley, Dark Horse Vice President, says Tom Taylor has taken to writing comics faster than anyone he’s ever seen.
Taylor’s other comics work includes the adaptation of his award-winning play The Example (with illustration by Colin Wilson) through Gestalt Publishing.
Gestalt Publishing have also published Taylor’s Rombies (with art by Skye Ogden) and a Rombies series is planned for 2010. As well as publishing two of his stories, White Dove III and 96000m in their ‘Flinch’ anthology, Gestalt are also set to publish Taylor’s original graphic novel Brief Cases and, his new creator-owned series, The Deep – which dives into the adventures of a multicultural family of underwater explorers who live on a submarine.
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 (it’s hard to get a gig in Antarctica).
Taylor’s animated TV series Alien Dave is currently in development with MIA productions. His award-winning short musical A4 2 A3 (written with Simon Barlow) was filmed by Bravada Films in 2009, for which Taylor also wrote the screenplay.
He is currently working on several film, television, comic book and theatre projects.
