Nunzio DeFilippis

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Nunzio DeFilippis is an American writer of comic books and television. [1] [2] He writes with his wife, Christina Weir, whom he met while they were both students at Vassar College.

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Career

DeFilippis and Weir have written for two seasons on HBO's Arli$$ , [3] and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's Kim Possible .

Comics

In comics, DeFilippis and Weir have written several graphic novels and miniseries for independent publisher Oni Press, including Skinwalker, Three Strikes, Maria's Wedding, The Tomb, Once In A Blue Moon , The Amy Devlin Mysteries, Frenemy of the State (written with Rashida Jones), and Bad Medicine. Their work at Oni led to work at Marvel Comics, relaunching the teen mutant book New Mutants . This book was renamed New X-Men: Academy X . Their run on these books spanned three years and created almost two dozen new super-powered mutant characters for Marvel's X-Men franchise, including Surge, Hellion, Wind Dancer, Prodigy, Wallflower, Elixir, Tag, Rockslide, Mercury, Anole, and Wither.

DeFilippis and Weir have also written for DC Comics, [4] with stories appearing in Wonder Woman, Adventures of Superman and Batman Confidential and Dark Horse with "Dragon Age: Knight Errant." The duo also work in the expanding field of Japanese manga, providing English adaptations for the Del Rey titles Guru-Guru Pon-Chan, Sugar Sugar Rune and Kagetora. They also write original English language manga for Seven Seas Entertainment, writing one of the company's launch titles, Amazing Agent Luna and the pirate manga, Destiny's Hand . DeFilippis also wrote, without his wife, an issue of DC Comics' Detective Comics .

Teaching

DeFilippis taught comic writing at UCLA Extension before teaching screenwriting and comic book writing at the Los Angeles branch of the New York Film Academy, where he is now Chair of the Screenwriting Department and Dean of Faculty. [5]

Selected works

References

  1. Dueben, Alex (January 14, 2009). "In-Depth with Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir". CBR .
  2. "SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY PODCAST: Writer and NYFA Professor Nunzio DeFilippis Talks About Transmedia". 19 January 2015.
  3. Agency, InkWell Management Literary. "Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir". InkWell Management Literary Agency.
  4. "Nunzio Defilippis". DC.
  5. "NYFA Screenwriting Faculty: Interview with Nunzio DeFilippis". NYFA.