In recognition of her contributions to comics, ComicsAlliance listed Simonson as one of twelve female comics creators deserving of lifetime achievement recognition.[2]
Early life and career
In 1964 while attending Georgia State College, Louise met fellow student Jeffrey Catherine Jones. The two began dating and were married in 1966.[3] Their daughter Julianna was born the following year. After graduation, the couple moved to New York City. Louise modeled for artist Bernie Wrightson's cover of DC Comics' House of Secrets #92 (June–July 1971),[4][5] the first appearance of Swamp Thing,[6] and was hired by McFadden-Bartell, a magazine publisher and distributor and worked there for three years.[3] She and Jones split up during this time but she continued to use the name Louise Jones for several years afterward.[3]
Louise met the comic book writer and artist Walt Simonson in 1973, began dating in August 1974,[7] and married in 1980.[8] They collaborated on X-Factor from 1986 to 1989.
Career
Comics editor
In 1974, Jones started her professional comic book career at Warren Publishing. She went from assistant to senior editor[8] of the comics line (Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella) before leaving the company at the end of 1979.[9]
In January 1980, Jones joined Marvel Comics, where she initially worked again as an editor, most notably on Uncanny X-Men, which she edited for almost four years (#137–182) and Conan the Barbarian (#114–148 ). Simonson (as "Louise Jones") edited another X-Men spin-off, The New Mutants, at its debut in 1983. After leaving the series, she had a "cameo" in New Mutants #21, drawn in as a slumber party guest by artist Bill Sienkiewicz.[10] During this period, she also edited Marvel's Star Wars and Indiana Jones comics.[9][11]
In 2017, she edited the graphic novel Son of Shaolin for Image Comics.[12]
Comics writer
At the end of 1983, Jones quit her editing job at Marvel to try her hand at full-time writing as Louise Simonson. She created the Eagle Award-winning Power Pack.[13] The title, which debuted in August 1984, featured the adventures of four pre-teen superheroes. Simonson wrote the majority of the title's first forty issues, even coloring one issue (#18). Her other Marvel writing work included Starriors, Marvel Team-Up, Web of Spider-Man,[14] and Red Sonja. Louise helped her husband Walt Simonson color his "Star Slammers" story in Marvel Graphic Novel #6 (1983).
In 1986 Bob Layton, writer of the X-Men spin-off X-Factor, was running late on a deadline, and Simonson was called in to write a fill-in issue of X-Factor. This story was never published, since Layton ultimately turned his story in on time, but while writing it Simonson found herself inspired by the characters, to the point where she brought a list of her ideas to editor Bob Harras in the hopes that Layton might use them for the series.[15] Instead, Layton ended up dropping X-Factor shortly after, and at Chris Claremont and Ann Nocenti's suggestion, Harras chose Simonson as his replacement.[15] In #6, her first issue, she and artist Jackson Guice introduced Apocalypse,[16] a character who would go on to make repeated appearances in the X-Men franchise. From #10 of the title, she was joined by her husband, Walt Simonson, on pencils. In #25, the creators gave the character, Angel, blue skin and metal wings in a process which led to his being renamed as "Archangel". It was at Simonson's suggestion that X-Men writer Chris Claremont's "Mutant Massacre" story idea was turned into a crossover through all the "X-books", the first of its kind.[17] Her run on X-Factor included the relevant installments of "Mutant Massacre", and the subsequent crossovers "Fall of the Mutants," "Inferno", and "X-Tinction Agenda".[18] She ended her run on the title with #64 in 1991.
In 1987, beginning with issue #55, she became the New Mutants scripter. Similarly to X-Factor, she was originally brought in as a fill-in writer so that Chris Claremont could launch two other titles,[17] but ended up writing the series for three and a half years, ending with #97 in 1991. It was during this run that she and artist Rob Liefeld introduced Cable, another important character in the X-Men franchise.[19] In 1988–89, she and her husband co-wrote the Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown limited series painted by Jon J Muth and Kent Williams.
In 1991, Simonson began writing for DC Comics. She, artist Jon Bogdanove, and editor Mike Carlin launched a new Superman title, Superman: The Man of Steel[20] — a title she wrote for eight years until #86 in 1999. She contributed to such storylines as "Panic in the Sky" in 1992.[21] Later that year, Simonson (along with Carlin, Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern and others) was one of the chief architects of "The Death of Superman" storyline, in which Superman died and was resurrected. It was during that storyline, in The Adventures of Superman #500 (June 1993),[22] that Simonson and Bogdanove introduced their character Steel, who graduated to his own title in February 1994,[23] with Simonson as writer until #31. The character went on to feature in an eponymous feature film starring Shaquille O'Neal in 1997. Simonson was one of the many creators who worked on the Superman: The Wedding Album one-shot in 1996 wherein the title character married Lois Lane.[24]
In 1999, Simonson returned to Marvel to write a Warlock series, which featured a character from her previous New Mutants run. That same year, she wrote a miniseries, Galactus the Devourer, in which Galactus died temporarily. In 2005, she wrote stories featuring Magnus, Robot Fighter for the publisher Ibooks, Inc. In 2007, Simonson wrote a one-shot starring Magik of the New Mutants as part of a four-issue event known as Mystic Arcana.[25] In 2009, she wrote two issues of Marvel Adventures featuring Thor. The next year, she scripted the five-part limited series X-Factor Forever and reunited with June Brigman for a new Power Pack story in Girl Comics #3. Simonson also co-wrote the comic World of Warcraft, based on the multi-million player internet game, for Wildstorm, and a manga story, based in the Warcraft universe, for Tokyopop. In 2011, DC hired Louise Simonson to write DC Retroactive:Superman - The '90s, pencilled by her Man of Steel-collaborator Jon Bogdanove.
Simonson wrote the "Five Minutes" chapter in Action Comics #1000 (June 2018)[26] and a twelve-part webcomic tie-in to The Death of Superman animated movie.[27] In 2019, she contributed two stories to DC Primal Age #1 and teamed up with June Brigman again for the one-shot Power Pack: Grow Up.[28] In 2020 she scripted the comic adaptation of Leigh Bardugo's novel Wonder Woman: Warbringer as well as a comic tie-in to the movie Wonder Woman 1984. Simonson revisited her runs on X-Factor and New Mutants with new stories for X-Men Legends, pencilled by her husband Walt and published in 2021 and 2022.[29][30]
In April 2022, Simonson and her husband were reported among the more than three dozen comics creators who contributed to Operation USA's benefit anthology book, Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds, a project spearheaded by IDW Publishing Special Projects Editor Scott Dunbier, whose profits would be donated to relief efforts for Ukrainian refugees resulting from the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[31][32] Simonson teamed up with artist June Brigman to produce an original story with new characters created specifically for the anthology.[33]
In 2023, she wrote a four-issue Jean Grey mini-series for Marvel Comics. In 2024, the five-issue retro series Power Pack: Into the Storm by Simonson and June Brigman, with a story that takes place during their original run, was published by Marvel.[34]
Novelist
From 1993 through 2009, she wrote five picture books and eleven novels for middle-readers, many of which featured characters from DC Comics. Two YA novels, Justice League: The Gauntlet[35] and Justice League: Wild at Heart,[36] published by Bantam Books, were based on the Justice League cartoon. She wrote an adult Batman novel and the non-fiction DC Comics Covergirls.[37]
^ abcCooke, Jon B. (Spring 1999). "'Weezie' Jones Simonson - Louise discusses her life & times as a Warren editor". Comic Book Artist (4). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 92–94.
^Levitz, Paul (2010). "The Bronze Age 1970-1984". 75 Years of DC Comics The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Cologne, Germany: Taschen. p. 481. ISBN978-3-8365-1981-6. When Swamp Thing debuted in this issue of House of Secrets as a "one-shot", no one could have known it would lead to an enduring hit franchise, least of all its cover model, future comics writer Louise Simonson.
^Cooke, Jon B. (October 2000). "Simonson Says The Man of Two Gods Recalls His 25+ Years in Comics". Comic Book Artist (10). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 23.
^DeFalco, Tom; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1980s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 218. ISBN978-0756641238. Working with artist June Brigman...Louise created the preteen super-hero team called Power Pack.{{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Manning, Matthew K.; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2012). "1980s". Spider-Man Chronicle Celebrating 50 Years of Web-Slinging. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 147. ISBN978-0756692360. Spider-Man swung into the pages of an all-new ongoing series in this first issue by writer Louise Simonson and penciler Greg LaRocque.{{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^DeFalco "1980s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 227: "Simonson liked the idea of introducing a Darwinian character who would initiate disasters to help stimulate humanity's evolution."
^ abGrant, Paul J. (August 1993). "Poor Dead Doug, and Other Mutant Memories". Wizard: X-Men Turn Thirty. pp. 66–69.
^Manning, Matthew K. "1990s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 251
^Manning "1990s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 248: "Writer Louise Simonson and penciller Rob Liefeld introduced one of the hottest stars of the 1990s, the mysterious mutant known only as Cable."
^Manning, Matthew K.; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1990s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 250. ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. DC editorial saw the chance to give their hero a fourth ongoing monthly book, Superman: The Man of Steel was born, with the first issue written by Louise Simonson and with art by Jon Bogdanove, Tom Grummett, Bob McLeod, and Dan Jurgens.{{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 253: "In this seven-part adventure...writers Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Roger Stern, and Louise Simonson, with artists Brett Breeding, Tom Grummett, Jon Bogdanove, and Bob McLeod assembled many of DC's favorite characters to defend the world."
^Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 259: " The issue also featured four teaser comics that introduced a group of contenders all vying for the Superman name...Construction worker John Henry Irons found a new purpose in life as the future Steel in a story by Louise Simonson, with art by Jon Bogdanove"
^Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 265: "Steel finally stepped out of Superman's shadow in his own ongoing series by writers Jon Bogdanove and Louise Simonson, and artist Chris Batista."
^Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 275: " The behind-the-scenes talent on the monumental issue appropriately spanned several generations of the Man of Tomorrow's career. Written by Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, David Michelinie, Louise Simonson, and Roger Stern, the one-shot featured the pencils of John Byrne, Gil Kane, Stuart Immonen, Paul Ryan, Jon Bogdanove, Kieron Dwyer, Tom Grummett, Dick Giordano, Jim Mooney, Curt Swan, Nick Cardy, Al Plastino, Barry Kitson, Ron Frenz, and Dan Jurgens."
PapercutSingel oleh Linkin Parkdari album Hybrid TheorySisi-B Points of Authority (Live) Papercut (Live) Dirilis18 Juni 2001[1]DirekamLos Angeles, California, 2000Genre Nu metal[2][3] rap metal[4] Durasi3:05LabelWarner Bros.PenciptaLinkin ParkProduserDon GilmoreKronologi singel Linkin Park Crawling (2000) Papercut (2001) In the End (2001) Papercut adalah sebuah lagu oleh grup musik rok Amerika Linkin Park. Lagu ini dirilis sebagai single internasional ketiga da...
A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (February 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Hospital in Ontario, CanadaRoyal Ottawa Mental Health CentreRoyal Ottawa Health Care GroupLocation in OntarioGeographyLocationOttawa, Ontario, CanadaOrganizationCare systemPublic Medicare (Canad...
Anti-Atlas de Anti-Atlas (links) Hoogste punt Jbel Sirwa (3305 m) Lengte 500 km Locatie Marokko Coördinaten 30° 0′ NB, 8° 30′ WL Onderdeel van Atlasgebergte Portaal Aardwetenschappen De Anti-Atlas (Arabisch: الأطلس الصغير) is een van de in Marokko gelegen gebergtes, als deel van het Atlasgebergte, in het noordwesten van Afrika. De Anti-Atlas strekt zich uit van de Atlantische Oceaan in het zuidwesten tot het noordoosten, ter hoogte van Ouarzaz...
Type 123 Vickers 123 Role Single-seat fighterType of aircraft National origin United Kingdom Manufacturer Vickers Limited First flight 11 September 1926 Retired 1930 Status Scrapped Number built 1 Vickers 141 The Vickers Type 123 was a 1920s British single-seat biplane fighter designed and built by Vickers Limited as a private venture.[1] The only Type 123 was later modified into the Type 141 but, not winning any orders, it was scrapped in 1930.[1] Design and development The T...
1979 studio album by The Super Jazz TrioSomething TastyStudio album by The Super Jazz TrioReleased1979RecordedMay 25, 1979StudioMedia Studio, TokyoGenreJazzLabelBaystateTommy Flanagan chronology Together(1978) Something Tasty(1979) Super-Session(1980) Something Tasty is an album by the Super Jazz Trio of pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Joe Chambers, with Art Farmer on flugelhorn. Background The Super Jazz Trio was formed in 1978 by pianist Tommy Flanagan, b...
Robert Mills Información personalNacimiento 12 de agosto de 1781Charleston, Carolina del Sur, Estados UnidosFallecimiento 3 de marzo de 1855(73 años)Washington D. C. (Estados Unidos) Sepultura Congressional Cemetery Residencia Charleston y Filadelfia Nacionalidad EstadounidenseFamiliaCónyuge Elizabeth Barnwell Smith Mills EducaciónEducado en College of Charleston Alumno de Benjamin Henry Latrobe Información profesionalOcupación ArquitectoMovimiento Neogriego y neoclasicismo Obras notabl...
2011 US legal case concerning online defamation This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (May 2018) Obsidian Finance Group, LLC v. CoxCourtUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitFull case name'Obsidian Finance Group, LLC and Kevin D. Padrick v. Crystal Cox DecidedJanuary 17, 2014Case historyPrior action(s)District Court hold that Cox is denied protection under Oregon's media shield statutes and retr...
Sungai Salween di perbatasan Myanmar dan Thailand Sungai Salween adalah sungai yang terpanjang di Myanmar.[1] Berhulu dari Plato Tibet, panjang Sungai Salween keseluruhan mencapai 2815 km. Di Yunnan, Republik Rakyat Tiongkok, sungai ini dinamakan Sungai Nujiang. Jalur aliran Sungai Salween terbagi antara Tiongkok, Myanmar dan Thailand. Sumber air dan aliran Sungai Salween bermata air di dataran tinggi sebelah timur Plato Tibet dan mengalir menuju selatan melalui lembah yang curam...
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.Find sources: Gwangju International Film Festival – news · newspapers · books · scholar ·...
For the similarly named peerage Prince Xian (諴親王), see Prince Xian (諴). Prince Su of the First RankTraditional Chinese和碩肅親王Simplified Chinese和硕肃亲王TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu Pinyinhéshuò sù qīnwángWade–Gilesho-shuo su ch'in-wangPrince Xian of the First RankTraditional Chinese和碩顯親王Simplified Chinese和硕显亲王TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu Pinyinhéshuò xiǎn qīnwángWade–Gilesho-shuo hsien ch'in-wang Prince Su of th...
هذه المقالة يتيمة إذ تصل إليها مقالات أخرى قليلة جدًا. فضلًا، ساعد بإضافة وصلة إليها في مقالات متعلقة بها. (مارس 2023) مبارك الخضري معلومات شخصية الاسم الكامل مبارك محمد الخضري تاريخ الميلاد 19 يوليو 1984 (العمر 39 سنة) الطول 1.72 m مركز اللعب مهاجم الجنسية السعودية مسيرة الشباب س...
Village in Cornwall, England This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: Portloe – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) 50°13′09″N 4°53′30″W / 50.2191°N 4.8917°W / 50.2191; -4.8917 The Cornish flag...
Season of television series WildflowerSeason 4Third version of Season 4's title cardStarring Maja Salvador Tirso Cruz III Zsa Zsa Padilla Aiko Melendez Joseph Marco Sunshine Cruz Wendell Ramos RK Bagatsing Vin Abrenica Yen Santos Christian Vasquez Roxanne Barcelo Miko Raval Country of originPhilippinesNo. of episodes50ReleaseOriginal networkABS-CBNOriginal releaseDecember 4, 2017 (2017-12-04) –February 9, 2018 (2018-02-09)Season chronology← PreviousSeason 3List of epis...
Japanese anime television series This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (January 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this t...
Group of languages of West Africa SonghaySonghai, AynehaEthnicitySonghaiGeographicdistributionNiger River valley(Mali, Niger, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria); scattered oases (Niger, Mali, Algeria)Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?Songhay–Saharan?[1]SonghayProto-languageProto-SonghaySubdivisions Northern Southern ISO 639-2 / 5sonGlottologsong1307Location of Songhay languages[2] Northwest Songhay: Korandje Koyra Chiini Tadaksahak...
Stade de Suisse WAsuWankdorfInformasi stadionPemilikStade de Suisse Wankdorf Nationalstadion AGOperatorStade de Suisse Wankdorf Nationalstadion AGLokasiLokasi Papiermühlestrasse 71CH-3022 BernKonstruksiMulai pembangunan2003Dibuka30 Juli 2005Biaya pembuatan350 juta Swiss FrancArsitekMarazzi Generalunternehmung AGData teknisPermukaanSintetik Bintang 2 FIFA : Polytan Ligaturf 240Kapasitas32.000 (sepak bola)PemakaiBSC Young Boys (Liga Super) (2005–kini) Stade de Suisse Wankdorf merupakan ...
2011 studio album by Skint & DemoralisedLove And Other CatastrophesStudio album by Skint & DemoralisedReleased2 August 2011 (2011-08-02)GenreAlternative popLabelHeist or Hit RecordsProducerMiNI dOGSkint & Demoralised chronology Love And Other Catastrophes(2011) This Sporting Life(2011) Singles from Love And Other Catastrophes The Thrill of Thirty SecondsReleased: 17 November 2008 This Song Is Definitely Not About YouReleased: 2 March 2009 Red LipstickRelease...
Political organization in the Kingdom of Ireland (1791 – 1804/1805) United Irishmen redirects here. Not to be confused with United Irishman (disambiguation). Society of United Irishmen Cumann na nÉireannach Aontaithe[1]Founded1791; 233 years ago (1791)Dissolved1804; 220 years ago (1804)NewspaperBelfast: Northern Star. Cork: Harp of Erin. Dublin: The Rights of Irishmen, or National Evening Star; Union Star; Press. Roscrea: Southern Star.IdeologyIr...