Dan Abnett

Dan Abnett
Abnett at the Midtown Comics booth at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, 10 October 2010
Abnett at the Midtown Comics booth at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan,
10 October 2010
BornDaniel P. Abnett
(1965-10-12) 12 October 1965 (age 59)
Rochester, Kent, England
OccupationComic book writer, novelist
EducationSt Edmund Hall, Oxford
Period1988–present
GenreComic book, science fiction
Notable awardsNational Comics Award for Best Writer in Comics Today (2003)[1]
Website
theprimaryclone.blogspot.com

Daniel P. Abnett (/ˈæbnɪt/ AB-nit;[2] born 12 October 1965) is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies.[3][4] In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books.[5]

  1. ^ "National Comics Awards Results 2003". Down The Tubes. Archived from the original on 15 June 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2003.
  2. ^ "Warhammer Preview Online: Black Library – Dan Abnett Interview". Warhammer (game). 4 December 2022. Archived from the original on 4 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023 – via YouTube.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "Dan Abnett Books in Order". Book Series in Order. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Black Library Blog". Blacklibrary.com. Retrieved 26 December 2010.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Marco. "Dan Abnett joins our robot horde". Angry Robot Books. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2010.