J. Michael Straczynski

J Michael Straczynski’s film credits include five movies that collectively earned nearly two billion dollars: "Changeling", "Thor", "Ninja Assassin", "Underworld Awakening", and "World War Z".

He has written over 300 produced television episodes and seven TV movies, and has been a creator-show-runner for such series as "Babylon 5", "Jeremiah", "Crusade", and "Sense8" for Netflix. His animated "Babylon 5" movie, "The Road Home", debuted Summer 2023 to rave reviews and top-ranked sales.

His comics and graphic novels have appeared on the NY Times Bestseller List, selling over 13 million individual issues, for "The Amazing Spider-Man", "Thor", "Superman: Earth One", "Midnight Nation", "Dream Police", and "Rising Stars". Most recently he served as head of the creative council for Artists, Writers and Artisans (AWA) writing The Resistance, Moths, Telepaths (beubg developed by Apple for a feature film) and The Madness. He is currently writing the monthly Captain America book for Marvel, and gas signed with Dark Horse for a series of original minseries-graphic novels to debut in 2024.

In addition to being nominated for a Best Screen Writing BAFTA (British Academy Award) for "Changeling", he has received the Eisner Award, the Inkpot Lifetime Achievement Award, the Hugo Award (twice), the SDCC International Icon Award, the Saturn Award, the Ray Bradbury Award, the Christopher Foundation Award, the E Pluribus Unum Award from the American Cinema Foundation, two technical Emmy’s for "Babylon 5", the GLAAD Media Award, and dozens of others.

His recent prose work includes his autobiography, "Becoming Superman", a novel, "Together We Will Go", and a book on writing book, "Becoming A Writer, Staying A Writer". His latest novel, "The Glass Box", debuted January ’24 from Blackstone Publishing, and he served as editor for Harlan Ellison’s Greatest Hits for Urban Square/Barnes & Noble, appearing March ‘24. His two new audio drama series for Penguin-Random House, Earthlight, and The Far Horizon, will debut Summer 2024.