Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson

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Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson (born Azolene Christian Wheeler-Nicholson) (born May 10, 1949) is an American author, playwright, and editor who has published and edited several books on Native American mythology and also on the history of her grandfather, the Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. She also produced and acted in several off-Broadway plays for the Manhattan Punchline Theatre. She has written articles for The International Journal of Comic Art, Comics Beat, and more.
Early life
Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson was born in 1949 in Mobile, Alabama to parents Olive Havard and Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Jr. Her parents divorced and Wheeler-Nicholson lived with her mother and step-father. She attended Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama as a theatre major, where she began a longtime friendship with comics artist Howard Cruse.
Career
She moved to New York city in 1976, and acted in and directed productions off-off-Broadway such as Manhattan Punchline Theatre. Wheeler-Nicholson divorced Johnson in 1980, and later in the same year met her father Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and the extended Wheeler-Nicholson family for the first time.
Wheeler-Nicholson traveled to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China in 1983, even though traveling alone throughout China immediately after the Cultural Revolution, and before individual travel was allowed. She wrote scripts that were animated for Mattel's first interactive game for girls Secret Paths in the Forest.
Wheeler-Nicholson began concentrated research on her grandfather, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s life and work in 1997. At the 2008 San Diego Comic Con she accepted the Eisner Award for her grandfather's induction into the Eisner Hall of Fame. In 2009 she worked with editor Roy Thomas on an article published in AlterEgo #88 featuring Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.
In 2012 Wheeler-Nicholson moved to Berkeley, California. With John Locke of Off-Trail Publications Wheeler-Nicholson published selected stories of Major Wheeler-Nicholson’s pulp adventure stories The Texas-Siberia Trail in 2014. She provided material for Shannon Wheeler’s cartoon of MWN “The Dirty Little Secret of Comic Books” featured in The New Yorker Cartoons of the Year 2014. Wheeler-Nicholson appeared in the AMC program Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics in November 2017. Published DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s Pulp Comics with Hermes Press in late 2018.
Personal life
Wheeler-Nicholson married Steven Johnson in 1971.
*On the Scene with Smaller Cons—Wizard World and Big Wow (Comics Beat)
*Thrilling Adventures of "The Major" (The Pulpster #24)
* Searching for a Hero, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (Pulp Adventures No. 19)
*Wonder Woman Loses Her Staying Power at Comic-Con (2013 July, Women's News)
*He Was Going to Go for the Big Idea (2009 Alter Ego #88)<ref name="AlterEgo"/>

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