Shaun Simon is an American

comics a Media (communication), medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of Panel (comics), panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, Glo ...

writer. He is from Clifton, New Jersey. He wrote '' The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' with

Gerard Way Gerard Arthur Way (born April 9, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, and comic book writer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the Rock music, rock band My Chemical Romance. He released his debut solo album, ''Hesitan ...

, lead vocalist of

My Chemical Romance My Chemical Romance is an American Rock music, rock band from New Jersey. The band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist Gerard Way, lead guitarist Ray Toro, rhythm guitarist Frank Iero, and bassist Mikey Way. They are considered one of ...

, for

Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, manga and Artist's book, art book publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon, by Mike Richardson in 1986. The company was created using funds earned from Richardson's chain of Portland, O ...

as well as writing ''Neverboy'', also for Dark Horse. He also wrote Collapser with Mikey Way for

DC Comics DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book seri ...

and

The Umbrella Academy ''The Umbrella Academy'' is an Absurdist fiction, absurdist Superhero fiction, superhero comic book series created by writer Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá. It follows a dysfunctional family of adopted superhero siblings with bizarre powers a ...

spinoff prequel series based on Klaus Hargreeves titled You Look Like Death.

Career

Shaun Simon is the former keyboardist for the

New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...

band

Pencey Prep Pencey Prep was an American punk rock band from Belleville, New Jersey. Background Before Pencey Prep, two of the members played in local punk bands; Frank Iero from Sector 12 and Neil Sabatino from Stick Figure Suicide. While a student at Ru ...

, which he founded with

Frank Iero Frank Anthony Iero, Jr. (, born October 31, 1981) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist of the rock band My Chemical Romance and as a guitarist in the supergr ...

and John "hambone" McGuire. Following the band's break-up in 2002, he accompanied Iero’s band

on tour. It was while on tour that many of the ideas for ''Killjoys'' comic book took shape. At the 2012

New York Comic Con The New York Comic Con is an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to comics, Western comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, cosplay, toys, Film, movies, and television. It was first held in 2006. With an attendance of 200,00 ...

, it was announced that a first look at the series would be released on 2013's Free Comic Book Day. The series was drawn by artist Becky Cloonan and edited by Sierra Hahn. In 2015, Simon wrote ''Neverboy'', published by Dark Horse Comics. His next comic, ''Art Ops'', ran from 2015 to 2016 under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. He then wrote ''Wizard Beach'' for Boom! Studios and co-wrote ''Collapser'' with Mikey Way under the DC imprint Young Animal. In 2020, he co-wrote ''You Look Like Death: Tales From The Umbrella Academy'' and ''The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem'' with Gerard Way. Simon has also worked outside the comics medium and was the winner of the Predators and Editors readers poll for his flash fiction story "Snowman".Simon, Shaun (May 28, 2010)
"SNOWMAN"
Every Day Fiction.

References

Musicians from New Jersey Writers from New Jersey Dark Horse Comics Living people American comics writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-comics-writer-stub