Nationality American Years active 2008-present | Name Stephen Christy | |
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Occupation Residence Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
Archaia Comics Editor-in-Chief Stephen Christy with The Gorgeous Geeks
Stephen Christy (born 1985) is an American film and television producer and comic book editor. He is the President of Development at graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios, and was formerly former editor-in-chief at Archaia Entertainment, where he won two Eisner Awards, as the editor of Jim Henson's Tale of Sand and Return of the Dapper Men.
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- Archaia Comics Editor in Chief Stephen Christy with The Gorgeous Geeks
- Stephen christy editor in chief of archaia c2e2 2012
- Early life and education
- Archaia Entertainment
- Boom Studios
- References
Stephen christy editor in chief of archaia c2e2 2012
Early life and education
Christy was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating in 2007 with a degree in film and television production. While at Emerson, he co-founded the literary anthology Thread, which publishes screenplays, plays and comic book scripts; produced original content for the Emerson Channel; and interned at Marvel Comics and DC Comics in New York City.
Archaia Entertainment
Following graduation, Christy briefly worked in reality television, and then at Devil's Due Publishing, opening a Los Angeles office for the Chicago-based small press publisher. He then moved to Archaia Entertainment, serving as Director of Development for about a year, before being named editor-in-chief of Archaia Entertainment in April 2010, when he was 24 years old. Christy also handled film and television development for the company, overseeing the sale of the film rights for four graphic novels, two each to Fox and Warner Brothers.
Christy served as editor-in-chief at Archaia until 2013, with notable successes including Tumor, a collaboration with Amazon.com that was released serially on the Kindle prior to its hardcover publication, and was the first graphic novel created specifically for the Kindle; the American English-language re-launch of Shotaro Ishinomori's classic manga Cyborg 009; and the publication of Jim Henson's A Tale of Sand, a graphic novel adaptation by Ramon Perez, based on an unproduced screenplay by Jim Henson. Henson began writing the screenplay, his first, in the 1950s. It took him 20 years to complete. Christy created panels to discuss and screen Henson's early work at comic conventions across the US, including Comic-Con in San Diego, California. In a publishing partnership with The Jim Henson Company, which Christy helped negotiate in 2009, Archaia published numerous graphic novels based on Henson properties, including The Storyteller, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow and Fraggle Rock.
During Christy's tenure, Archaia won five Eisner Awards. In 2011, Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard won for Best Anthology, while Return of the Dapper Men won for Best Graphic Album: New. In 2012, Tale of Sand won three Eisner Awards, for Best Graphic Album: New, Best Publication Design and Best Penciller/Inker. The graphic novel also won two Harvey Awards and a Joe Shuster Award.
Boom! Studios
In June 2013, comic book and graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios acquired Archaia Entertainment, with Archaia functioning as an imprint of Boom! After the acquisition of Archaia, Christy was named president of development of Boom! Studios, overseeing all film, television, web and animation projects in development at the company's four brands: Boom!, Archaia, KaBoom! And Boom! Box.
In October 2013, Boom! Studios signed a first-look feature film deal with 20th Century Fox Studios for all Boom! Imprints, with Christy acting as a producer on the projects. In September 2014, Boom! signed a separate broadcast and cable first look television deal with 20th Century Fox TV, with Christy serving as an executive producer on any project developed with the studio.
Also in 2014, Christy was an executive producer of Comic Book Artists: Next Generation, a 30-minute documentary about the artists at R.A.I.D. Studio in Toronto, for AT&T U-Verse's Buzz channel.