Stephanie Phillips (writer)

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Stephanie Phillips
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 Harley Quinn , Sensational Wonder Woman , Grim, Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider, Phoenix

Stephanie Phillips is an American comics writer who has worked for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and independent comics. She is best known for her work on Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, Spider-Gwen, and Phoenix.

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Career

In 2018, Phillips published TheDevil Within through Black Mask Studios with artist Maan House, a book about a demonic possession in the Philippines that was based on a true story. [1] Later that year, her and artist Jamie Jones published Kicking Ice through Ominous Press in partnership with the National Women's Hockey League, a book about a group of female hockey players, which involved real hockey players like Kelsey Koelzer and Jillian Dempsey. [2]

In 2019, she published Descendent through AfterShock Comics [3] and The Butcher of Paris, based on the true story of Marcel Petiot, a serial killer who targeted Jews in Nazi-occupied France, through Dark Horse Comics. [4] In 2020, she published two books through AfterShock, Cold War thriller Red Atlantis [5] [6] and time-traveling sci-fi Artemis and the Assassin, [7] the pirate comic (starring Anne Bony and Mary Read) A Man Among Ye from Top Cow, [8] and Taarna: The Last Taarakian for Heavy Metal. [9] It was also announced that she would write Nuclear Family, about an alternate timeline where the Cold War became hot, from AfterShock. [10]

In 2021, it was announced that she would write the two issue Future State: Harley Quinn [11] and the new Harley Quinn ongoing series relaunched as part of Infinite Frontier with artist Riley Rossmo. [12] She also wrote the digital-first comic Sensational Wonder Woman [13] and the eight-issue mini-series Wonder Woman: Evolution. [14] [15] In November 2021, it was announced that she would publish We Only Kill Each Other, about Jewish gangsters fighting Nazis in 1930s New York, through ComiXology Originals. [16]

In 2022, she launched Grim, an ongoing series at Boom! Studios about a grim reaper navigating the afterlife, [17] and Rick and Morty: Crisis on C-137 through Oni Press. [18] In October 2022, it was announced at the San Diego Comic-Con "Women of Marvel" panel that she would write a new Rogue & Gambit mini-series for Destiny of X [19] and in November, it was announced that she would write a new Cosmic Ghost Rider mini-series for Marvel. [20] [21]

In 2023, she was announced as the writer for Capwolf and the Howling Commandos , [22] and in 2024, she became the writer for a Black Widow & Hawkeye mini-series [23] [24] [25] and a new Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider ongoing series. [26] [27] In April, it was announced that she would be a part of the X-Men: From the Ashes relaunch, writing an ongoing series for Phoenix . [28] She also published Red Before Black through Boom! Studios, [29] [30] which was listed as one of nine independent comics to read this year. [31]

Personal life

Phillips went to the University of South Florida, where she got a PhD in rhetoric and composition [32] and an MA in English. [33] She has taught writing and communication at the University at Buffalo, the University of South Florida, and the University of Tampa. She is also a Muay Thai fighter and hockey player [33] and has worked as a technical writer, an editor, and a journalist. [1] She is bisexual. [34]

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

DC Comics

Other Comics

AfterShock Comics

  • Artemis and the Assassin #1-5 (2020)
  • Descendent #1-5 (2019)
  • Nuclear Family #1-5 (2021)
  • Red Atlantis #1-5 (2020–2021)

A Wave Blue World

  • Averee #1-5 (2021)
  • Maybe Someday: Stories of Promise, Visions of Hope, short story "The Garden" (2020)

Black Mask Studios

  • Devil Within #1-4 (2018)

Boom! Studios

  • Grim #1-20 (2022–2024)
  • Red Before Black #1-6 (2024–2025)

ComiXology Originals

  • Black Sight #1-5 (2023–2024)
  • Mark Dawson's Beatrix Rose: Vigilante #1-5 (2022)
  • We Only Kill Each Other #1-5 (2021–2022)

Dark Horse Comics

  • The Butcher of Paris #1-5 (2019–2020)

DSTLRY

Heavy Metal

  • Heavy Metal Magazine #296, short story "The Language of Revolution" (2019)
  • Taarna: The Last Taarakian #1-5 (2020)

Humanoids

  • Eight Limbs (2023) (Life Drawn)

Mad Cave Studios

  • Grimm Tales from the Cave (2021)

Oni Press

  • Cruel Universe #2, short story "Organ1c" (2024) (EC Comics)
  • Epitaphs from the Abyss #1, short story "Family Values" (2024) (EC Comics)
  • Rick and Morty: Crisis on C-137 #1-4 (2022)

Image Comics

  • A Man Among Ye #1-8 (2020–2022) (Top Cow)
  • Postal: Night Shift (2020) (Top Cow)
  • The Silver Coin #12 (2022)

Other

  • GodSlap #1-5 (2022–2024) (Meatier Productions)
  • Kicking Ice (2018) (Ominous Press)
  • Octobriana With Love (2021) (Dead Good Comics)

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