Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson
| Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Azolene Christian Wheeler-Nicholson May 10, 1959 Mobile, AL |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 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) 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
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
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. She 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
Wheeler-Nicholson married Steven Johnson in 1971.[1] Wheeler-Nicholson divorced Brown in 2012.[6]
Bibliography
Books
- 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
- 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky (2010). "Oil and Water and Other Things That Don't Mix". LL Publications. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - ↑ 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) - ↑ "Comic-Con Eisner Hall of Fame". Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ↑ 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) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky (2014). The Texas-Siberia Trail (First ed.). Off-Trail Publications. p. 262. ISBN 978-1935031222.
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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky. "On the Scene with Smaller Cons—Wizard World and Big Wow". Comics Beat. Comics Beat. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ↑ Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky. "Thrilling Adventures of "The Major"". The Pulpster. The Pulpster. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ↑ Wheeler-Nicholson, Nicky (November 2016). "Searching for a Hero, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson". Pulp Adventures (19).
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ 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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