Nunzio DeFilippis
Nunzio DeFilippis is an American writer of comic books, podcasts, and television. He writes with his wife, Christina Weir, whom he met while they were both students at Vassar College.
Career
DeFilippis and Weir have written for two seasons on HBO's Arli$$, and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's Kim Possible.Comics
In comics, DeFilippis and Weir have written several graphic novels and miniseries for independent publisher Oni Press, including Skinwalker, Three Strikes, Maria's Wedding, The Tomb, Once In A Blue Moon, The Amy Devlin Mysteries, Frenemy of the State, and Bad Medicine. Their work at Oni led to work at Marvel Comics, relaunching the teen mutant book New Mutants. This book was renamed New X-Men: Academy X. Their run on these books spanned three years and created almost two dozen new super-powered mutant characters for Marvel's X-Men franchise, including Surge, Hellion, Wind Dancer, Prodigy, Wallflower, Elixir, Tag, Rockslide, Mercury, Anole, and Wither.DeFilippis and Weir have also written for DC Comics, with stories appearing in Wonder Woman, Adventures of Superman and Batman Confidential and Dark Horse with several comic books tying into the world of the videogame Dragon Age, starting with Dragon Age: Knight Errant and continuing with Dragon Age: Deception and Dragon Age: Blue Wraith and concluding with Dragon Age: Dark Fortress. The duo also work in the expanding field of Japanese manga, providing English adaptations for the Del Rey titles Guru-Guru Pon-Chan, Sugar Sugar Rune and Kagetora. They also write original English language manga for Seven 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 of DC Comics' Detective Comics.
Podcast
In 2025, DeFilippis and Weir teamed up with Jenny Sterner to create Cheating History a narrative podcast about time travel. A pilot was recorded, starring Winter Bassett, Colette Freedman, David Blixt and John Kassir. It was successfully funded on Kickstarter and will have a full first season in 2026.Teaching
DeFilippis taught comic writing at UCLA Extension before teaching screenwriting and comic book writing at the Los Angeles branch of the New York Film Academy, where he is now Chair of the Screenwriting and Producing Departments and Dean of Faculty.Selected works
Skinwalker #1-4 Three Strikes #1-5 Maria's Wedding graphic novel New Mutants vol. 2 #1-13 The Tomb graphic novel New X-Men: Academy X vol. 2 #1-19 Amazing Agent Luna vol. 1-11 New X-Men: Hellions #1-4 Adventures of Superman #644-648 Past Lies: An Amy Devlin Mystery graphic novel Destiny's Hand vol. 1-3 Bakugan Battle Brawlers, The Evo Tournament Batman Confidential #26-28 All Saints' Day: An Amy Devlin Mystery graphic novel Frenemy Of The State Amazing Agent Jennifer vol. 1-2 Dracula Everlasting vol. 1-2 The Avalon Chronicles, Volume 1: Once In A Blue Moon Play Ball Bad Medicine The Avalon Chronicles, Volume 2: Once In A Blue Moon Dragon Age: Knight Errant Dragon Age: Deception Dragon Age: Blue Wraith Dragon Age: Dark Fortress- ''Cheating History''