Ann Nocenti
Ann "Annie" Nocenti (/nəˈsɛnti/; born January 17, 1957)[1] is an American journalist, writer, teacher, editor, and filmmaker. She is best known for her work in comic books. As an editor for Marvel Comics, she edited New Mutants and The Uncanny X-Men. With artist collaborators, she created such Marvel characters as Typhoid Mary, Blackheart, Longshot, Mojo, and Spiral.
Ann Nocenti | |
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Nocenti at the 2015 East Coast Comicon in Secaucus, New Jersey | |
Born | January 17, 1957 |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Writer, Editor |
Notable works | Longshot, Daredevil |
Nocenti is particularly noted for her outspoken political views. Some focus on the status of women in society, as well as the role of government in Nocenti's work, particularly during her run on the Marvel superhero comic book Daredevil, which caused conflict with her editors.[2]
Early life
When Ann Nocenti was a child, her parents frowned upon comics, though there were some in her house, including Archie Comics, a "Pogo" anthology that Nocenti loved, and a Dick Tracy anthology whose grotesquely-rendered characters piqued Nocenti's curiosity, more so than the heroes.[3] Nocenti attended college at SUNY New Paltz,[4] during which she discovered the work of Robert Crumb.[3]
Career
Comics
After graduating from SUNY New Paltz,[4] she discovered the superhero genre when she answered an ad in the Village Voice, which led to her being given her first published comics job at Marvel Comics by editor Dennis O'Neil.[3] Nocenti made her comics writing debut with a six-page mythological story, drawn by Greg LaRocque, in the Marvel anthology Bizarre Adventures #32 (August 1982).[5] She got her first regular comics assignment with Marvel's superhero series Spider-Woman, starting with issue #47 (December 1982). It was not a promising assignment; Marvel had already decided to end the series with issue #50 (June 1983) due to flagging sales.[6] With heavy guidance from editor Mark Gruenwald (who had himself written the series for a time), Nocenti ended the series with the death of the titular character, a decision she came to regret. She recalled, "It was before I understood the intense, personal attachment the readers have to the characters. In retrospect, I realized it wasn't a nice thing to kill a character off. As I worked in the field for a while, I developed a strong personal attachment to a lot of characters and I realized how alive they were."[6] Shortly after, Nocenti lent a hand to Spider-Woman's resurrection in Avengers #240–241 as "story consultant".
She wrote an issue each of Doctor Strange and Star Wars before writing the four-issue miniseries Beauty and the Beast (December 1984 – June 1985), featuring the superheroes Dazzler and the Beast.[5] During this period Nocenti was on staff at Marvel, working as an assistant editor for Carl Potts[7] on such titles as The Incredible Hulk, The Defenders, Doctor Strange, and The Thing.[8]
Nocenti and artist Arthur Adams created the character Longshot in a titular, six-issue miniseries (September 1985 – February 1986).[5][9] Explaining the concept of the character, which Nocenti borrowed from existentialist writers, she states, "Longshot is the idea of stripping someone of everything that they are. I never read comics, so the idea of a hero to me was different. I couldn't think of it in terms of a 'super hero' hero. I thought of it more as a conceptual hero. Not having a comic book background, I tend to come up with the metaphysics before I come up with the characters. I knew that I wanted to deal with the metaphysics of luck. It was a concept that interested me ... what luck is, what probability is, how you could shift probabilities towards yourself. What are the repercussions of that? So, I did a character centered around that idea.[10] At the time, Nocenti was pursuing her Master's degree at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, working at the magazine Lies of Our Times, and reading the work of writers such as Marshall McLuhan, Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman and Walter Lippmann. Longshot's archvillain, Mojo, a slaver and dictator who rules his dimension through the television programs he produces, was created as a direct result of these influences. A character named Manufactured Consent after the Chomsky book of the same name, who appeared in the Nocenti's 1990 book The New Mutants Summer Special in 1990, was also born of these works.[3]
After collaborating with Adams on the Spider-Man feature in Web of Spider-Man Annual #2 (September 1986), and with penciler Mike Mignola on a short backup story there, Nocenti teamed with artist Barry Windsor-Smith on Daredevil #236 (November 1986). Two issues later, she became the regular writer for a four-and-a-quarter year run from #238–291 (January 1987 – April 1991), minus issues #246 and #258. John Romita Jr. joined as penciler from #250–282 (January 1988 – July 1990), and was generally inked by Al Williamson. Nocenti specifically addressed societal issues, with Murdock, now running a non-profit urban legal center, confronting sexism, racism, and nuclear proliferation while fighting supervillains. Nocenti introduced the popular antagonist Typhoid Mary in issue #254 (May 1988).[11] as well as the demon Blackheart in #270 (September 1989).[12]
In addition to contributing occasional stories to such anthologies as Marvel Comics Presents and Marvel Fanfare, and writing a handful of Spider-Man fill-ins,[5] Nocenti also produced the graphic novel Someplace Strange in collaboration with artist John Bolton. She also wrote The Inhumans Graphic Novel in 1988, and the 1998 X-Men novel Prisoner X.
For the DC Comics imprint Vertigo, Nocenti wrote the 16-issue run of Kid Eternity (May 1993 – September 1994). Later in the mid-1990s, for Marvel, she wrote a four-issue miniseries each starring Typhoid Mary and the supernatural supervillain Nightmare. After writing two issues of Marvel's The All New Exiles in 1996, plus the four-page dramatic story "Old Man", with artist Bolton, in the Dark Horse Comics anthology Strange Wink #3 (May 1998),[5] Nocenti left comics to pursue journalism. She returned briefly, in 2003 and 2004, writing four Batman stories for DC.
Nocenti was among the writers for Daredevil #500 published in August 2009.[13]
Nocenti wrote Green Arrow starting with issue #7 published in March 2012.[14][15] In September 2012, Nocenti became the writer of Catwoman with issue #0.[16][17] She launched a Katana series the following February.[18][19]
Journalism and film
In the 1990s, Nocenti began to focus on journalism and filmmaking. She edited High Times magazine for one year (2004) and was an editor on Prison Life Magazine. Her journalism has been published in The Nation,[20] Print, Utne, Heeb, The Brooklyn Rail, CounterPunch,[21] Filmmaker, and Details, as well for MoveOn.org. Nocenti's story "The Most Expensive Road Trip in the World" was collected in The Best American Travel Writing 2008, edited by Anthony Bourdain (Houghton Miifflin). She was an editor and writer for Stop Smiling, guest editing the "Gambling Issue". As editor of the screenwriting magazine Scenario,[22] Nocenti published the original versions of screenplays and interviewed directors and screenwriters.
Nocenti co-directed the documentary The Baluch,[22][23] shot in Baluchistan, and made the short Creep for Glass Eye Pix.[24]
In 2009, Nocenti taught screenplay writing at the Ciné Institute in Haiti[22] and in 2012 wrote a series for HiLobrow about the country.[25]
Nocenti made a short documentary film with Wendy Johnson called Disarming Falcons in 2014 which premiered at DOCNYC.[26][27]
In 2016 she was one of the producers and writers on MAGIC CITY: The Art of the Street, for SC Exhibitions in Dresden, Germany.[28] In 2018 she was an executive producer on MARVEL: Universe of Super-Heroes at MoPOP museum in Seattle, Washington.[29] In 2018 she wrote The Seeds (with artist David Aja) and in 2019 she wrote Ruby Falls (with artist Flavia Biondi), both for Karen Berger’s new comic imprint Berger Books at Dark Horse Comics.[30][31][32]
Cameos and homages
Nocenti appears on the photo cover of Spider-Woman #50, in costume as Tigra.[6]
Nocenti appears in The Avengers #215 (Jan. 1982) as a secretary at an advertising agency that Steve Rogers visits looking for work.
Nocenti, along with John Byrne, Ron Wilson, Jim Shooter and Roger Stern are featured in The Thing # 7 (January 1983). The issue features the titular character storming into a fictionalized Marvel Comics and encountering the creators behind his own strip.
Nocenti makes a cameo appearance in The Incredible Hulk #291 (January 1984). At the time Nocenti was assistant editor to Larry Hama on The Incredible Hulk and X-Men. She also appeared in a spoof comic strip in 1984's The Defenders #127.
Arthur Adams visually based the character Ricochet Rita in the Longshot limited series on Nocenti.[33]
In Ultimate X-Men, a re-imagination of the X-Men in the alternate universe Ultimate Marvel imprint, the superhero Longshot has the civilian name Arthur Centino — his last name an anagram of "Nocenti" and his first name an homage to artist Arthur Adams, the original character's co-creators.[34]
Personal life
Nocenti lives in New York City.[4]
Bibliography
As editor
Assistant editor:
- On titles edited by Al Milgrom:
- The Defenders #104–122 (1982–1983)
- The Incredible Hulk #269–288 (1982–1983)
- Micronauts #39–51 (1982–1983)
- ROM #28–41 (1982–1983)[Note 1]
- Star Wars #58–61 (1982)[Note 2]
- Marvel Fanfare #3–14 (1982–1984)
- Doctor Strange vol. 2 #56–60, 62 (1982–1983)
- Fantastic Four #253–257 (1983)
- Marvel Two-in-One #98 (1983)
- The Thing #1 (1983)
- On titles edited by Carl Potts:
- Doctor Strange vol. 2 #61, 63 (1983–1984)
- The Defenders #123–130 (1983–1984)
- Fantastic Four #258 (1983)
- The Incredible Hulk #289–290 (1983)
- X-Men Classics #1–3 (1983–1984)
- Amazing High Adventure #1 (1984)
- On titles edited by Louise Jones:
- Uncanny X-Men #179–182 (1984)
- Marvel Fumetti Book #1 (1984)
- The New Mutants #16 (1984)
- Star Wars #84 (1984)
Series editor:
- The Thing #2–7 (1983–1984)
- The Incredible Hulk #291–294 (1984)
- Uncanny X-Men #183–232, Annual #8–11 (1984–1988)[Note 3]
- The New Mutants #17–66, Annual #1–4, Special Edition #1 (1984–1988)[Note 4]
- Star Wars #85–107 (1984–1986)[Note 5]
- Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1–6 (1984–1985)[Note 6]
- Starriors #1–4 (1984–1985)
- Nightcrawler #1–4 (1985–1986)
- Misty #1–6 (1985–1986)
- Heroes for Hope #1 (co-edited by Nocenti and Chris Claremont, 1985)
- X-Men/Alpha Flight #1–2 (co-edited by Nocenti and Dennis O'Neil, 1985–1986)
- Greenberg the Vampire (Marvel Graphic Novel #20, 70 pages, 1986, ISBN 0-8713-5090-4)
- Firestar #1–4 (1986)
- Classic X-Men #1–23 (1986–1988)[Note 7]
- Dracula (Marvel Graphic Novel #26, 80 pages, 1986, ISBN 0-8713-5171-4)
- Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men #1–4 (1987)
- Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1 (1987)
- Comet Man #1–6 (1987)
- Fallen Angels #1–8 (1987)
- X-Men vs. the Avengers #1–4 (co-edited by Nocenti and Mark Gruenwald, 1987)
- Excalibur Special Edition #1, Excalibur #1 (1987–1988)
- Wolfpack #1 (1988)
Reprint editor:
- Doctor Strange Classics #1–4 (1984)
- Wolverine (tpb, 96 pages, 1987, ISBN 0-87135-277-X)
Consulting editor:
- Revenge of the Living Monolith (Marvel Graphic Novel #17, 64 pages, 1985, ISBN 0-8713-5083-1)
As writer
- Bizarre Adventures #32: "The Streak" (with Greg LaRocque, anthology, 1982)
- Spider-Woman #47–50 (with Brian Postman, 1982–1983)
- The Defenders #127: "Dreams of Glory" (with Marie Severin, humorous two-page story for Assistant Editors' Month starring Nocenti herself, 1984)
- The Avengers #240–241 (as "story consultant"; written by Roger Stern, drawn by Al Milgrom, 1984) collected in The Avengers: Absolute Vision Book One (tpb, 432 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-8534-8)
- Doctor Strange:
- Doctor Strange vol. 2 #64: "Art Rage" (with Tony Salmons, 1984)
- Nightmare #1–4: "Nightmare: A Killer of a Love Story" (with Joe Bennett, 1994–1995)
- Amazing High Adventure (anthology):
- "Gold" (with Tony Salmons, in #1, 1984)
- "My Heart Belongs to Betsy" (co-written by Nocenti and Eliot R. Brown, art by Gerry Talaoc, in #2, 1985)
- Star Wars #89: "I'll See You in the Throne Room!" (with Bret Blevins, 1984)
- Collected by Dark Horse in Star Wars Omnibus: A Long Time Ago... Volume 5 (tpb, 568 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-5958-2801-X)
- Collected by Marvel in Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Volume 3 (hc, 1,136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9346-4)
- X-Men:
- Beauty and the Beast #1–4 (with Don Perlin, 1984–1985) collected as X-Men: Beauty and the Beast (hc, 184 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6273-9)
- Longshot:
- Longshot #1–6 (with Arthur Adams, 1985–1986) collected as X-Men: Longshot (tpb, 176 pages, 1898, ISBN 0-8713-5568-X; hc, 208 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3091-8)
- Marvel Comics Presents #16: "Dreamwalk" (with Larry Dixon, anthology, 1989)
- X-Men Classic Omnibus (hc, 1,040 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0811-1) and X-Men Classic: The Complete Collection Volume 2 (tpb, 520 pages, 2019, ISBN 1-3029-2058-8) include:
- Classic X-Men #25, 27–28, 30–34, 38–39, 44 (with John Bolton, Kyle Baker (#38), Jim Lee (#39) and Kieron Dwyer (#44), co-features, 1988–1990)
- Marvel Fanfare #60: "The Mission" (with Dave Ross, anthology, 1992)
- Marvel Fanfare #40: "Chiaroscuro" (with David Mazzucchelli, anthology, 1988)
- Marvel Comics Presents #10–17: "God's Country" (with Rick Leonardi, anthology, 1989) collected in X-Men: Colossus — God's Country (tpb, 168 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9525-4)
- The New Mutants Summer Special: "A Mutant in Megalopolis" (with Bret Blevins, 1990) collected in The New Mutants: Cable (tpb, 496 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-3029-2523-7)
- What If...? vol. 2 #40: "What If Storm Stayed a Thief?" (with Steve Carr and Deryl Skelton, anthology, 1992) collected in X-Men: Alterniverse Visions (tpb, 144 pages, 1995, ISBN 0-7851-0194-2)
- Wolverine: Evilution (with Mark Texeira and John Royle, one-shot, 1994)
- Spider-Man:
- Web of Spider-Man:
- Annual #1: "Give Me a Hand, Future Max" (with Tony Salmons, 1985)
- Annual #2 (1986):
- "Wake Me Up I Gotta be Dreaming" (with Arthur Adams)
- "You're Lying, Peter Parker" (with Mike Mignola)
- Spider-Man: Life in the Mad Dog Ward (tpb, 144 pages, 2013. ISBN 0-7851-8503-8) collects:
- "Mad Dog Ward, Part One: What's the Matter with Mommy?" (with Cyndy Martin, in #33, 1987)
- "Mad Dog Ward, Part Two: Mad Dogs" (with Cyndy Martin, in The Amazing Spider-Man #295, 1987)
- "Mad Dog Ward, Part Three: I am... Spider!" (with Cyndy Martin, in The Spectacular Spider-Man #133, 1987)
- Spider-Man #29–31: "Return of the Mad Dog Ward" (with Chris Marrinan, 1992–1993)
- Spider-Man #17 (with Rick Leonardi, 1991) collected in Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus (hc, 1,248 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-5468-X)
- Venom: The Madness #1–3 (with Kelley Jones, 1993–1994) collected in Venom: The Enemy Within (tpb, 240 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-8434-1)
- The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #14 (script by Nocenti and D. Blaise from a plot by J. M. DeMatteis and Tom Lyle, art by Sal Buscema, 1994)
- Web of Spider-Man:
- Daredevil:
- Daredevil:
- "American Dreamer" (with Barry Windsor-Smith, in #236, 1986)
- X-Men: Mutant Massacre (hc, 320 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3805-6; tpb, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6741-2) includes:
- "It Comes with the Claws" (with Sal Buscema, in #238, 1987)
- "The Face You Deserve" (with Louis Williams, in #239–240, 1987)
- "Black Christmas" (with Todd McFarlane, in #241, 1987)
- "Caviar Killer" (with Keith Pollard, in #242, 1987)
- "Touch Me" (with Louis Williams, in #243–244, 1987)
- "Burn!" (with Chuck Patton, in #245, 1987)
- "The Backwards Man" (with Keith Giffen, in #247, 1987)
- "Kiss and Kill!" (with Rick Leonardi, in #248–249, 1987)
- "Boom!" (with John Romita, Jr., in #250–251, 1988)
- X-Men: Fall of the Mutants Volume 2 (tpb, 400 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6685-8) includes:
- "Ground Zero" (with John Romita, Jr., in #252, 1988)
- Daredevil: A Touch of Typhoid (tpb, 463 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9688-9) collects:
- "Merry Christmas, Kingpin" (with John Romita, Jr., in #253, 1988)
- "Typhoid!" (with John Romita, Jr., in #254–257 and 259–261, 1988)
- "Inferno" (with John Romita, Jr., in #262–263 and 265, 1989)
- "Baby Boom!" (with Steve Ditko, in #264, 1989)
- "A Beer with the Devil" (with John Romita, Jr., in #266, 1989)
- "Cremains" (with John Romita, Jr., in #267, 1989)
- "Golden Rut" (with John Romita, Jr., in #268, 1989)
- "Lone Stranger" (with John Romita, Jr., in #269, 1989)
- "Blackheart" (with John Romita, Jr., in #270, 1989)
- Daredevil: Heart of Darkness (tpb, 488 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0791-3) collects:
- "Liberation" (with John Romita, Jr., in #271–273, 1989)
- "Acts of Vengeance" (with John Romita, Jr., in #274–276, 1989–1990)
- "Of Crowns and Horns" (with Rick Leonardi, in #277, 1990)
- "Heart of Darkness" (with John Romita, Jr., in #278–282, 1990)
- Daredevil: Last Rites (tpb, 504 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-3029-2563-6) includes:
- "The American Nightmare" (with Mark Bagley, in #283, 1990)
- "The Man in Black" (with Lee Weeks, Greg Capullo (#286) and Kieron Dwyer (#289), in #284–290, 1990–1991)
- "All the News That Fits" (with Lee Weeks, in #291, 1991)
- Daredevil: Typhoid's Kiss (tpb, 416 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9326-X) collects:
- Marvel Comics Presents #109–116, 123–130, 150–151 (with Steve Lightle and Fred Harper (#151), anthology, 1992–1994)
- The Spectacular Spider-Man #213–214 (with James W. Fry III, 1994)
- Typhoid #1–4 (with John Van Fleet, Marvel Edge, 1995–1996)
- Girl Comics #3: "Blindspot" (with Molly Crabapple, anthology, 2010)
- Marvel Holiday Special 1992: "The Rapt Lamb" (with Tom Grindberg, anthology one-shot, 1993)
- Daredevil #500: "3 Jacks" (with David Aja, co-feature, 2009) collected in Punisher and Bullseye: Deadliest Hits (tpb, 120 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0578-3)
- Daredevil: Black and White: "Game Room" (prose story with illustrations by David Aja, anthology one-shot, 2010)
- Daredevil:
- Marvel Fanfare #30: "Real to Reel" (with Brent Anderson, anthology, 1987)
- The Inhumans (with Bret Blevins, graphic novel, 72 pages, 1988, ISBN 0-87135-435-7)
- Someplace Strange (with John Bolton, graphic novel, hc, 63 pages, Epic, 1988, ISBN 0-936211-13-X; sc, 1989, ISBN 0-87135-439-X)
- Toxic Crusaders #7: "Girl Power" (with Marie Severin, 1992)
- Marvel Holiday Special 1993: "Harvey Teabiscuiet's Yule Log" (with Tom Grindberg, anthology one-shot, 1994)
- The All-New Exiles #9–10: "Love Wars" (with John Fang, Malibu, 1996)
- Marvel Comics Presents vol. 3 #1: "First Ride" (with Greg Land, anthology, 2019) collected in Tales through the Marvel Universe (tpb, 216 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-3029-1746-3)
- Marvel Comics #1001: "Neither Here Nor There" (with Kim Jacinto, anthology, 2019)
DC Comics
- Vertigo:
- Kid Eternity vol. 3 #1–16 (with Sean Phillips, Sean Harrison Scoffield (#7) and Paul Peart (#15), 1993–1994)
- A short story titled "He Who Falls" (art by Duncan Fegredo) was published in Vertigo Jam (anthology one-shot, 1993)
- Issues #1–9 and the short story from Vertigo Jam are collected as Kid Eternity Book One (tpb, 256 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-4012-6814-5)
- Mystery in Space: "Here Nor There" (with Fred Harper, anthology one-shot, 2012) collected in Strange Adventures (tpb, 160 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4393-2)
- Kid Eternity vol. 3 #1–16 (with Sean Phillips, Sean Harrison Scoffield (#7) and Paul Peart (#15), 1993–1994)
- Batman:
- Batman: Gotham Knights #38: "Black and White" (with John Bolton, co-feature, 2003) collected in Batman: Black and White Volume 3 (hc, 288 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1531-9; tpb, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1354-5)
- Batman/Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows (with John Van Fleet, one-shot, 2004)
- Batman and Catwoman: Trail of the Gun #1–2 (with Ethan Van Sciver, 2004)
- Catwoman vol. 3 (with Adriana Melo (#0), Rafa Sandoval, Aaron Lopresti (Annual) and Pat Olliffe, 2012–2014) collected as:
- Death of the Family (collects #0 and 13–18, tpb, 176 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-4272-3)
- Includes the "Think it Through" short story (art by Emanuela Lupacchino) from Young Romance: A New 52 Valentine's Day Special (anthology, 2013)
- Gotham Underground (collects #19–24, 26 and Annual #1, tpb, 208 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4627-3)
- Includes Batman: The Dark Knight vol. 2 #23.4 (written by Nocenti, art by Georges Jeanty, 2013)
- Race of Thieves (collects #27–34, tpb, 232 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-5063-7)
- Death of the Family (collects #0 and 13–18, tpb, 176 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-4272-3)
- Catwoman: 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular: "Now You See Me" (with Robson Rocha, anthology one-shot, 2020) collected in Batman: 80 Years of the Bat Family (tpb, 400 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-7795-0658-9)
- Green Arrow vol. 5 (with Harvey Tolibao, Steve Kurth (#10) and Freddie Williams II, 2012–2013) collected as:
- Katana: Soultaker (tpb, 256 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4411-4) collects:
- Katana #1–10 (with Alex Sanchez, Cliff Richards, Fabrizio Fiorentino (#7) and ChrisCross (#9), 2013–2014)
- Justice League Dark #23.1: "Twisted" (scripted by Nocenti from story by Dan Didio, art by ChrisCross, Fabrizio Fiorentino and Tom Derenick, 2013)
- Klarion #1–6 (with Trevor McCarthy, Fabrizio Fiorentino (#4) and Szymon Kudranski (#4–6), 2014–2015)
- Secret Origins vol. 3 #6: "Full Deck" (with Roger Robinson, anthology, 2015) collected in Secret Origins Volume 2 (tpb, 272 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5343-1)
Other publishers
- The Foot Soldiers (as editor; written by Jim Krueger, drawn by Phil Hester):
- Asylum #9: "Three Blind Mice" (anthology, Maximum Press, 1996)
- The Foot Soldiers vol. 2 #1–4 (with additional art by Steve Yeowell, Mike Parobeck, Michael Avon Oeming, Tony Salmons, Scott McDaniel, Ian Gibson and Steve Rude, Image, 1997–1998)
- Raw Periphery #1: "Jezebel's Virtue" (with James Romberger, an excerpt from the eponymous unreleased project intended for publication at Vertigo;[35][36] anthology, Slave Labor Graphics, 1997)
- Dark Horse:
- Strange Wink #3: "Old Man" (with John Bolton, anthology, 1998)
- The Seeds #1–2 (of 4) (with David Aja, Berger Books, 2018)
- Ruby Falls #1–4 (with Flavia Biondi, Berger Books, 2019–2020) collected as Ruby Falls (tpb, 112 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-5067-1495-1)
- IDW Publishing:
- Womanthology: Heroic: "What's Lost is Lost" (with Alicia Fernandez, anthology graphic novel, hc, 300 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-6137-7147-9; sc, 2015, ISBN 1-6314-0329-X)
- True Blood vol. 2 (co-written by Nocenti and Michael McMillian, art by Michael Gaydos, Greg Scott (#6) and Beni Lobel (#7–9), 2012–2013) collected as:
- Mine! (A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefiting Planned Parenthood): "Tiger" (with Natacha Bustos, anthology graphic novel, hc, 304 pages, ComicMix, 2018, ISBN 1-9398-8866-2; sc, 2018, ISBN 1-9398-8865-4)
- Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror #3: "Tar Feathers" (with Fred Harper, anthology, Ahoy Comics, 2018) collected as Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror Volume 1 (tpb, 192 pages, 2019, ISBN 0-9980-4423-7)
- Ripley's Believe It or Not! vol. 3 #2: "Irish Giant" (with Fred Harper, anthology, Zenescope, 2018) collected as Ripley's Believe It or Not! (tpb, 120 pages, 2019, ISBN 1-9422-7586-2)
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Ann Nocenti wanted to introduce a character who was a clean slate. One with no history, no past, and no prejudices. A man without a memory. With Arthur Adams and Whilce Portacio providing the art, Nocenti wrote the six-issue limited series Longshot.
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Catwoman received a new origin in this flashback issue by writer Ann Nocenti and artist Adriana Melo.
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Nocenti spent her downtime from the industry over the past decade working in decidedly more political realms, including doing work for MoveOn.org and for The Nation.
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Annie Nocenti is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She was the Editor of Scenario, the magazine of screenwriting art. She has most recently shot two documentaries in Pakistan, The Baluch about the Baluch insurgency and Disarming Falcons about the ancient art of falconry.
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The character, Rita...was based visually on the story's writer, Ann Nocenti.
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Centino is an anagram of...you guessed it, Longshot's OTHER creator, Ann Nocenti.
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Notes
- Nocenti is listed as "editor" in the story credits of issues #33–41.
- Louise Jones is listed as "editor" in the story credits of issue #58.
- Issue #232 is co-edited by Nocenti and Bob Harras.
- Annual #4 and issue #66 are co-edited by Nocenti and Bob Harras.
- Louise Jones is listed as "editor" in the story credits of issue #89.
- Issue #1 is co-edited by Nocenti and Louise Jones.
- Issue #23 is co-edited by Nocenti and Bob Harras.
External links
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- Ann Nocenti at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Ann Nocenti at Marvel.com
- Ann Nocenti at IMDb
- Ann Nocenti at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
- Ann Nocenti at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
Preceded by Danny Fingeroth |
Daredevil writer 1986–1991 |
Succeeded by D. G. Chichester |
Preceded by Judd Winick |
Catwoman writer 2012–2014 |
Succeeded by Sholly Fisch |
Preceded by Sholly Fisch |
Catwoman writer 2014 |
Succeeded by Genevieve Valentine |