Nunzio DeFilippis is an American writer of comic books, podcasts, and television.[1][2] He writes with his wife,Christina Weir, whom he met while they were both students atVassar College.
DeFilippis and Weir have written for two seasons on HBO'sArli$$,[3] and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel'sKim Possible.
In comics, DeFilippis and Weir have written several graphic novels and miniseries for independent publisherOni Press, includingSkinwalker, Three Strikes,Maria's Wedding,The Tomb,Once In A Blue Moon,The Amy Devlin Mysteries,Frenemy of the State (written withRashida Jones), andBad Medicine. Their work at Oni led to work atMarvel Comics, relaunching the teen mutant bookNew Mutants. This book was renamedNew X-Men: Academy X. Their run on these books spanned three years and created almost two dozen new super-powered mutant characters for Marvel'sX-Men franchise, includingSurge,Hellion,Wind Dancer,Prodigy,Wallflower,Elixir,Tag,Rockslide,Mercury,Anole, andWither.
DeFilippis and Weir have also written forDC Comics,[4] with stories appearing inWonder Woman,Adventures of Superman andBatman Confidential and Dark Horse with several comic books tying into the world of the videogameDragon Age, starting withDragon Age: Knight Errant and continuing withDragon Age: Deception andDragon Age: Blue Wraith and concluding withDragon Age: Dark Fortress. The duo also work in the expanding field of Japanese manga, providing English adaptations for the Del Rey titlesGuru-Guru Pon-Chan, Sugar Sugar Rune andKagetora. They also write original English language manga forSeven 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 ofDC Comics'Detective Comics.
In 2025, DeFilippis and Weir teamed up withJenny Sterner to createCheating History a narrative podcast about time travel. A pilot was recorded, starringWinter Bassett,Colette Freedman,David Blixt andJohn Kassir. It was successfully funded on Kickstarter and will have a full first season in 2026.
DeFilippis taught comic writing at UCLA Extension before teaching screenwriting and comic book writing at the Los Angeles branch of theNew York Film Academy, where he is now Chair of the Screenwriting and Producing Departments and Dean of Faculty.[5]
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