Nick Simmons

Nick Simmons
Nick Simmons (left) with his father, Gene Simmons, at San Diego Hard Rock Hotel, 2009
Born	Nicholas Adam Tweed-Simmons (1989-01-22) January 22, 1989 (age 28) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Comic book creator, musician, television personality, voice over actor
Years active	2005–present

Nicholas Adam Tweed-Simmons is a reality television personality, and the son of musician Gene Simmons. He is best known for starring in the A&E network Gene Simmons Family Jewels.

Simmons is the son of Israeli-American musician Gene Simmons from rock band Kiss and Canadian actress/model Shannon Tweed. He has a sister named Sophie who is three years younger. He attended Pitzer College in Claremont, California and graduated in 2011 with a degree in English Literature.

Simmons is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and is most notable as part of the cast of The Biography Channel reality television show Gene Simmons Family Jewels. He has also performed voiceover work on Cartoon Network's Robot Chicken.

He contributed a story for the comic book anthology, Gene Simmons House of Horrors, the first issue of which was released in July 2007.

At the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2009, Radical Comics 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 manga, the most notable being Bleach, and from art communities such as DeviantArt. Simmons responded to the accusations by stating that the similarities between the two works was intended by him as a homage, saying, "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 Viz Media, 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, 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.