Deniz Camp

Deniz Camp is a Filipino-American comics writer who has written for independent comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics. His most notable works are The Ultimates, Absolute Martian Manhunter and Assorted Crisis Events.

Camp received five Eisner Award nominations in 2025, the most of any creator. This led to Popverse stating that "Camp has established himself as a vibrant new voice in American comics today thanks to his ability to merge high-concept genre storytelling with slippery, inventive prose."

Early life Deniz Camp was born in the Philippines, and raised in the American Midwest. His father is Turkish and his mother is Filipina. He studied cell molecular biology and went to medical school.

Career The first professionally published comics writing Camp did was for Millarworld Annual 2016. It was about a child super genius, Maxwell Maas, and the alternate worlds he visited through his childhood bedroom door.

In 2022, his 20th Century Men, with artist Stipan Morian and letterer Aditya Bidikar through Image Comics. It earned critical praise and went on to be on several lists of the best comics of 2023. 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." and then Bloodshot Unleashed through Valiant Comics with artist Jon Davis-Hunt.

He got his first job writing for Marvel Comics in 2023 on the four-issue "Fall of X" mini-series Children of the Vault. 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."

The following year, 2024, he was announced as the writer The Ultimates, part of Marvel's new Ultimate Universe, with artist Juan Frigeri. 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." 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. Camp went on to write the one-shot Ultimate Universe: One Year In.

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. It was announced as a six-issue limited series but was extended to twelve issues after its initial success.

Staying at DC but working on the relaunch of DC Vertigo, it was announced at New York Comic Con 2025 that he would write Bleeding Hearts as part of a new line of series, with Stipan Morian as artist, as well as a series for DC's Next Level initiative, both in 2026.

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.

Personal life According to his Image Comics biography, Camp lives in Brooklyn with his wife and several chickens.