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Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson

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Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson
BornAzolene Christian Wheeler-Nicholson
(1959-05-10) May 10, 1959 (age 64)
Mobile, AL
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
💼 Occupation
Notable work"Persephone’s Cave," "DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics

Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson (born Azolene Christian Wheeler-Nicholson) (born May 10, 1949) is an American author, playwright, and editor who has published and edited several books on Native American mythology and also on the history of her grandfather, the Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. She also produced and acted in several off-Broadway plays for the Manhattan Punchline Theatre. She has written articles for The International Journal of Comic Art, Comics Beat, and more.

Early life[edit]

Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson was born in 1949 in Mobile, Alabama to parents Olive Havard and Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Jr. Her parents divorced and Wheeler-Nicholson lived with her mother and step-father. She attended Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama as a theatre major, where she began a longtime friendship with comics artist Howard Cruse.[1]

Career[edit]

She moved to New York city in 1976, and acted in and directed productions off-off-Broadway such as Manhattan Punchline Theatre. Wheeler-Nicholson divorced Johnson in 1980, and later in the same year met her father Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and the extended Wheeler-Nicholson family for the first time.[citation needed]

Wheeler-Nicholson traveled to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China in 1983, even though traveling alone throughout China immediately after the Cultural Revolution, and before individual travel was allowed.[1]

Wheeler-Nicholson moved to Monterey, Massachusetts in the Berkshires in 1986 with Jason Slater Brown, grandson of literary figure William Slater Brown. She and Brown married in 1988 and founded a media company called Berkshire Media Artists, which produced video documentaries and published audio books.[1]

In the mid-1980’s Wheeler-Nicholson began spending time with a group of Native American elders from several nations resulting in audio recordings of native stories and wisdom appearing on NPR’s Airos. Pursued a Master's Degree through Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduating in 1992 with the thesis Divine Feminine in Classical Greek Mythology and Theatre. She wrote a full-length play entitled Persephone’s Cave with original songs with music composed by Jason Brown.[1] The play was produced and performed in the Berkshires using classical Greek theatre elements of chorus, dancers and actors.

Wheeler-Nicholson published articles on Native American mythology, Greek mythology and ecology. She edited Oil and Water and Other Things That Don’t Mix, an anthology of writings to support clean-up after the 2010 Gulf Oil disaster published by LL Publications.[2] She wrote scripts that were animated for Mattel's first interactive game for girls Secret Paths in the Forest.[citation needed]

Wheeler-Nicholson began concentrated research on her grandfather, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s life and work in 1997.[3] At the 2008 San Diego Comic Con she accepted the Eisner Award for her grandfather's induction into the Eisner Hall of Fame.[4] In 2009 she worked with editor Roy Thomas on an article published in AlterEgo #88 featuring Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.[5]

In 2012 Wheeler-Nicholson moved to Berkeley, California. With John Locke of Off-Trail Publications Wheeler-Nicholson published selected stories of Major Wheeler-Nicholson’s pulp adventure stories The Texas-Siberia Trail in 2014.[6] She provided material for Shannon Wheeler’s cartoon of MWN “The Dirty Little Secret of Comic Books” featured in The New Yorker Cartoons of the Year 2014. Wheeler-Nicholson appeared in the AMC program Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics in November 2017. Published DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s Pulp Comics with Hermes Press in late 2018.

Personal life[edit]

Wheeler-Nicholson married Steven Johnson in 1971.[1] Wheeler-Nicholson divorced Brown in 2012.[6]

Bibliography[edit]

Books[edit]

  • The Texas-Siberia Trail (2014, ISBN 978-1935031222 Search this book on .), Off-Trail Publications
  • Oil and Water and Other Things That Don't Mix (2010, ISBN 978-1905091850 Search this book on .), LL-Publications
  • DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics (2018, ISBN 978-1613451649 Search this book on .), Hermes Press

Articles[edit]

  • Applying the Lasso of Truth to The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (Fall/Winter 2017 International Journal of Comic Art Vol. 19, No. 2)[7]
  • On the Scene with Smaller Cons—Wizard World and Big Wow (Comics Beat)[8]
  • Thrilling Adventures of "The Major" (The Pulpster #24)[9]
  • Searching for a Hero, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (Pulp Adventures No. 19)[10]
  • Wonder Woman Loses Her Staying Power at Comic-Con (2013 July, Women's News)[11]
  • He Was Going to Go for the Big Idea (2009 Alter Ego #88)[5]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Munson, Kim. "Interview: Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson". The Comics Alternative. Comics Alternative. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
  2. Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky (2010). "Oil and Water and Other Things That Don't Mix". LL Publications. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky (October 2008). "Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson: Cartoon Character or Real Life Hero?". International Journal of Comic Art. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  4. "Comic-Con Eisner Hall of Fame". Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky (2009). "He Was Going to Go For the Big Idea". Alter Ego. 88: 39. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky (2014). The Texas-Siberia Trail (First ed.). Off-Trail Publications. p. 262. ISBN 978-1935031222. |access-date= requires |url= (help) Search this book on
  7. Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky (2017). "Applying the Lasso of Truth to The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore". International Journal of Comic Art. 19 (2): 8. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  8. Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky. "On the Scene with Smaller Cons—Wizard World and Big Wow". Comics Beat. Comics Beat. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  9. Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky. "Thrilling Adventures of "The Major"". The Pulpster. The Pulpster. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  10. Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky (November 2016). "Searching for a Hero, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson". Pulp Adventures (19). |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  11. Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky. "Wonder Woman Loses Her Staying Power at Comic-Con". Women's News. womensnews.org. Retrieved 3 August 2018.


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