James Robinson (writer)

James Dale Robinson ( born April 1, 1963 in Manchester ) is a British comic and screenwriter.

Life and work

Robinson began to work as a professional comic book writer in the early 1990s. His artistic breakthrough he experienced 1994/1995 with his reinterpretation of comics about the science fiction hero Starman: Robinson's approach to the material, which was at that time more than fifty years old, arranged all four available to date - and sometimes conflicting - variants of the fantasy tale about a self-contained larger whole, and added them as well yet another to by, made a new own developed character, the young Jack Knight to the title character, during the previous winners of the Starman name ( Ted Knight, Mikaal Thomas, Gavyn and Will Payton ). Robinson's Starman series ran almost seven years to 2001 and earned him, among others, in 1997 the award of the prestigious Eisner Award, one of the most important prizes of the American comic book industry, in the Best Serialized Story category.

Further work Robinson for DC presented were published in the series Batman and Detective Comics as a serial cross crossover story " Faces" (2006), the miniseries Vigilante and Witchcraft, a spin- off series to Neil Gaiman's Sandman. as well as some Batman stories were published in the anthology series Legends of the Dark Knight. From 1997 to 1998 Robinson also assisted his colleague David S. Goyer for a year as a co- author for the JSA superhero series (1997-1998) and doe JSA spin- off series Hawkman.

For Marvel Comics Robinson wrote a few issues of the series Cable, Generation X and Captain America, for Wildstorm, he worked on the series Wildcats and Team One and for Malibu Comics, he created the series Firearm.

In 2003, Robinson first time a script before, especially for the big screen adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.