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

The two 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, they 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.

They 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

He 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

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Dragon Age: Deception is a three-issue heroic fantasy comic book limited series published by Dark Horse Comics and released between January and March 2020. The series was co-written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, with artwork by Fernando Heinz Furukawa. The series takes place after the events of the 2017 miniseries Dragon Age: Knight Errant and features appearances from its protagonists, Ser Aaron Hawthorne and Vaea, as well as Dorian Pavus, a major character from Dragon Age: Inquisition. Deception follows a con artist named Olivia Pryde, who crosses paths with another con artist in the Tevinter city of Ventus, which is on the brink of war.

References

  1. Dueben, Alex (January 14, 2009). "In-Depth with Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir". CBR.
  2. https://scriptmag.com/career/selling-screenplay-podcast-writer-nyfa-professor-nunzio-defilippis-talks-transmedia
  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.