Deniz Camp

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Deniz Camp
BornDeniz Camp
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Notable works
20th Century Men, Children of the Vault, Bloodshot Unleashed, The Ultimates , Absolute Martian Manhunter

Deniz Camp is a Filipino-American comics writer who has written for independent comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics. His most notable works are 20th Century Men, Children of the Vault, The Ultimates , and Absolute Martian Manhunter .

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Career

The first professionally published comics writing Camp did was for Millarworld Annual 2016. [1] His first long-form comic book, Maxwell's Demons, appeared from Vault Comics in 2018. [2] It was about a child super genius, Maxwell Maas, and the alternate worlds he visited through his childhood bedroom door. [3]

In 2022, his 20th Century Men, with artist Stipan Morian and letterer Aditya Bidikar through Image Comics. [4] It earned critical praise and went on to be on several lists of the best comics of 2023. [5] [6] [7] It is "an alternate-history tale full of Avengers-style super-soldiers, genetic experiments, and patriotic figureheads in a battle for the soul of Afghanistan." [7] In addition, in 2022, he published Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E., a four-part pulp science fiction book, through Scout Comics with artist Filya Bratukhin, colorist Jason Wordie, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, [8] and then Bloodshot Unleashed through Valiant Comics with artist Jon Davis-Hunt. [9]

In 2023, he got his first job writing for Marvel Comics, the four-issue Fall of X mini-series Children of the Vault. [10] According to Camp, "Marvel operates on a much bigger scale. It's a universe where cosmic gods and Lovecraftian monsters are commonplace, which means I get to exercise my imagination in a different way; inventing advanced cultures and super technology, resurrecting past continuity in new ways, and imagining big action scenes that put superpowers to new and interesting use." [11]

In 2024, he was announced as the writer for The Ultimates , part of Marvel's new Ultimate Universe, with artist Juan Frigeri. [12] Per Camp, "Our Ultimates is absolutely in conversation with the original Ultimates. In some ways it's a response to it, in others an inversion of it. [...] Where that Ultimates was channeling post-9/11 paranoia, this one is addressed to that nagging sense that everything's gone wrong somehow, that things were supposed to be better than this. In that way the two Ultimates will feel very different, but I think (hope) ours is true to the spirit and the ambition of the original." [13] As part of the book, Camp introduced a new version of Hawkeye, Charli Ramsey, who was Indigenous American (specifically Oglala Lakota), as well as two-spirit and non-binary. [14] [15] Camp went on to write the one-shot Ultimate Universe: One Year In. [16]

In October 2024, it was confirmed that he would be the writer for Absolute Martian Manhunter , a part of DC's Absolute Universe, with artist Javier Rodriguez. [17] [18] In New York Comic Con 2025, it was announced that he would write Bleeding Hearts as part of a new line of DC Vertigo series, with Stipan Morian as artist, as well as a series for DC's Next Level initiative, both in 2026. [19]

In December 2024, it was announced that he would be writing a new series for Image Comics, Assorted Crisis Events, with artist Eric Zawadzki. It is an anthology series involving the collapse of time as it happens to everyday people. [20]

Personal life

Camp's father is Turkish and his mother is Filipina. He was born in the Philippines, but raised in the American Midwest. He studied cell molecular biology and went to medical school. [1] He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and between seven and eleven chickens. [21] [22]

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

DC Comics

Other companies

Image Comics

  • Millarworld Annual 2016 #1, short story "Duke McQueen's Greatest Adventure" (2016)
  • 20th Century Men #1−6 (2022−2023)
  • Ice Cream Man #43, short story "Real Page Turner" (2025)
  • Assorted Crisis Events #1−present (2025)

Scout Comics

  • Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E. #1−4 (2022)

Valiant Entertainment

  • Free Comic Book Day: The Year of Valiant #1, short story "Instead" (2022)
  • Bloodshot Unleashed #1−4 (2022)
  • Bloodshot Unleashed: Reloaded #1 (2024)

Vault Comics

  • Maxwell's Demons #1−4 (2017-2018)

Other

  • Ice Cream Man: Quarantine Comix − Guest Series #2 (2020)
  • Three Worlds / Three Moons: Heir Medicine #1−2 (2024)

References

  1. 1 2 Rabiroff, Zach (May 22, 2023). "Building the 20th Century: Collaboration, Colonialism and Human Tragedies with the Creators of 20th Century Men". The Comics Journal. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  2. Camp, Deniz (October 3, 2017). "Guest blog: Deniz Camp on Maxwell's Demons and the meaning of sci-fi". SciFiNow. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  3. Lune, Matt (October 2, 2017). "Talking "Maxwell's Demons" With Deniz Camp & Vittorio Astone". Multiversity Comics. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  4. Arrant, Chris (May 19, 2022). "History, politics and comic book mythology collide in alt-'90s story 20th Century Men". Popverse. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  5. Wescott, Adam (December 18, 2023). "The Beat's 34 Best Comics of 2023". The Beat. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  6. Anderson, Jenna (July 10, 2023). "The Best Comics of 2023 (So Far)". ComicBook.com. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  7. 1 2 Polo, Susana (July 30, 2023). "Wonder Woman, Egyptian fantasy, and pro wrestling in 2023's best comics". Polygon. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  8. Chiu-Tabet, Christopher (March 1, 2022). "Exclusive: Scout Comics to Publish "Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E."". Multiversity Comics. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  9. Holland, Dustin (August 11, 2022). "EXCLUSIVE: Valiant's Bloodshot Gets Brutal with Writer Deniz Camp". CBR. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  10. "'Fall of X' Pits Cable and Bishop Against the Greatest Threat to Mutantkind in 'Children of the Vault'". Marvel Entertainment. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  11. Lovett, Jamie (July 10, 2023). "X-Men First Look: Deniz Camp on the Clashing Futures of Children of the Vault (Exclusive)". ComicBook.com. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  12. Adams, Tim (February 22, 2024). "Marvel Announces New Ultimates Series". ComicBook.com. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  13. Lovett, Jamie (April 3, 2024). "The Ultimates First Look: Deniz Camp on Turning Marvel's Iconic Team in a Global Resistance Network (Exclusive)". ComicBook.com. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  14. Lava, Max (October 14, 2024). "Who Is Marvel's New Hawkeye? Powers & Origin of Charli Ramsey Explained". ScreenRant. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  15. Zalben, Alex (October 15, 2024). "Deniz Camp Reveals New Ultimate Hawkeye Is Non-Binary". Comic Book Club. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  16. Webber, Tim. "The State of the Ultimate Universe, One Year In". Marvel Entertainment. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  17. Ezekwe, Nnamdi (October 21, 2024). "Martian Manhunter Getting DC Absolute Series". CBR. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  18. McMillan, Graeme (October 18, 2024). "Marvel's Ultimates reboot writer comes to DC with 2025's Absolute Martian Manhunter". Popverse. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  19. Brooke, David; Maloney, Patrick (October 9, 2025). "NYCC 2025: DC Vertigo reveals lineup and 'A New Beginning' coming in 2026". AIPT. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  20. Brooke, David (December 19, 2024). "Deniz Camp's 'Assorted Crisis Events' coming March 2025". AiPT. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  21. "Deniz Camp". Image Comics. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  22. "Deniz Camp | Vault Comics". vaultcomics.com. Retrieved December 24, 2024.