Deniz Camp is a Filipino-Americancomics writer who has written for independent comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics.His most notable works are 20th Century Men, Children of the Vault, The Ultimates, and Absolute Martian Manhunter.
Career
The first professionally published comics writing Camp did was for Millarworld Annual 2016.[1] His first long-form comic book, Maxwell's Demons, appeared from Vault Comics in 2018.[2] It was about a child super genius, Maxwell Maas, and the alternate worlds he visited through his childhood bedroom door.[3]
In 2022, his 20th Century Men, with artist Stipan Morian and letterer Aditya Bidikar through
It is "an alternate-history tale full of Avengers-style super-soldiers, genetic experiments, and patriotic figureheads in a battle for the soul of Afghanistan."
In addition, in 2022, he published Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E., a four-part pulp science fiction book, through Scout Comics with artist Filya Bratukhin, colorist Jason Wordie, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou,
In 2023, he got his first job writing for Marvel Comics, the four-issue Fall of X mini-series Children of the Vault.[10] According to Camp, "Marvel operates on a much bigger scale. It's a universe where cosmic gods and Lovecraftian monsters are commonplace, which means I get to exercise my imagination in a different way; inventing advanced cultures and super technology, resurrecting past continuity in new ways, and imagining big action scenes that put superpowers to new and interesting use."[11]
In 2024, he was announced as the writer for The Ultimates, part of Marvel's new Ultimate Universe, with artist Juan Frigeri.[12] Per Camp, "Our Ultimates is absolutely in conversation with the original Ultimates. In some ways it's a response to it, in others an inversion of it. [...] Where that Ultimates was channeling post-9/11 paranoia, this one is addressed to that nagging sense that everything's gone wrong somehow, that things were supposed to be better than this. In that way the two Ultimates will feel very different, but I think (hope) ours is true to the spirit and the ambition of the original."[13] As part of the book, Camp introduced a new version of Hawkeye, Charli Ramsey, who was Indigenous American (specifically Oglala Lakota), as well as two-spirit and non-binary.[14][15] Camp went on to write the one-shot Ultimate Universe: One Year In.[16]
In October 2024, it was confirmed that he would be the writer for Absolute Martian Manhunter, a part of DC's Absolute Universe, with artist Javier Rodriguez.[17][18] In New York Comic Con 2025, it was announced that he would write Bleeding Hearts as part of a new line of DC Vertigo series, with Stipan Morian as artist, as well as a series for DC's Next Level initiative, both in 2026.[19]
In December 2024, it was announced that he would be writing a new series for Image Comics, Assorted Crisis Events, with artist Eric Zawadzki. It is an anthology series involving the collapse of time as it happens to everyday people.[20]
Personal life
Camp's father is Turkish and his mother is Filipina. He was born in the Philippines, but raised in the American Midwest. He studied cell molecular biology and went to medical school.[1] He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and between seven and eleven chickens.[21][22]
Bibliography
Marvel Comics
Children of the Vault #1−4 (illustrated by Luca Maresca, August−November 2023)
Collected in Children of the Vault (trade paperback, 120 pages, 2024, ISBN 978-1302952464)
