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Nicholas Adam Tweed-Simmons (born January 22, 1989) is an American writer, musician,
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personality and voice-over actor. The son of musician
Gene Simmons Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; he, חיים ויץ, ; born August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American musician. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the hard rock band he co-founded with Paul ...
, he is best known for starring in the A&E reality television series '' Gene Simmons Family Jewels'' from 2006 to 2012. He wrote and created the limited
comic book series a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...
'' Incarnate'', which was published by
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in 2009. In 2017, Simmons worked as a writer for ''
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''.


Personal life

Simmons is the son of
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-born musician
Gene Simmons Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; he, חיים ויץ, ; born August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American musician. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the hard rock band he co-founded with Paul ...
from the rock band
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and
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actress/model Shannon Tweed. He has a sister named
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who is three years younger. He attended
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in
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, and graduated in 2011 with a degree in English Literature.


Career

Simmons is a member of the
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and is most notable as part of the cast of A&E reality television series '' Gene Simmons Family Jewels'' from 2006 to 2012. He has also performed
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work on
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's ''
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''. He branched out into writing, most notably for
comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
s. He contributed a story for the
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''
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'', the first issue of which was released in July 2007. At the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2009,
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presented a special preview edition of Simmons's own comic book, '' Incarnate'', from the Simmons Comics Group. It was released August 1, 2009. In February 2010, accusations arose that Simmons had plagiarized character designs, fight scenes, plot segments, dialogue, poses, and expressions from both professional and amateur artists, from several published
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, the most notable being ''
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'', and from art communities such as DeviantArt. Simmons responded to the accusations by stating that he intended the similarities between the two works as an
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:
Like most artists I am inspired by work I admire. There are certain similarities between some of my work and the work of others. This was simply meant as an homage to artists I respect, and I definitely want to apologize to any manga fans or fellow Manga artists who feel I went to (sic) far. My inspirations reflect the fact that certain fundamental imagery is common to all manga.
Evelyn Dubocq, Senior Director of Public Relations at
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, the American publisher of ''Bleach'', stated, "We appreciate all our fans bringing this matter to our attention, and we are currently investigating this issue". On February 25, 2010, the publisher of ''Incarnate'',
Radical Comics Radical Studios is an American multimedia studio. It had branches in feature films, television, physical and digital publishing, merchandise, recorded music, digital and online media applications and mobile and social games. History Radical Pub ...
, announced on its official blog that it would be halting distribution and production of ''Incarnate'' until the matter was resolved between all concerned parties. Production of ''Incarnate'' never resumed. Simmons contributed vocals to "Hand of The King", a song from former Kiss guitarist
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's 2010 solo album ''
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''. In 2017, Simmons worked as a writer for ''
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''. He appeared on the Thursday, March 9, 2017 episode of the
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television show ''
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''.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Simmons, Nick 1989 births Living people Male actors from Los Angeles American comics artists American comics writers American people of Canadian descent American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent American people of Israeli descent American male television actors Participants in American reality television series People involved in plagiarism controversies