James Dale Robinson
James Dale Robinson (born April 1, 1963 in Manchester ) is a British comic book and screenwriter .
Life and work
Robinson began working as a full-time comic book writer in the early 1990s. He experienced his artistic breakthrough in 1994/1995 with his reinterpretation of the comics about the science fiction hero Starman: Robinson's approach to the subject, which was more than fifty years old at the time, arranged all four existing - and sometimes contradicting - ones. Variants of the fantasy fairy tale into a self-contained larger whole and also added another to them by making a new character he developed himself, the young Jack Knight, the title hero, while the previous bearers of the Starman name (Ted Knight, Mikaal Thomas, Gavyn, and Will Payton) also appeared as supporting characters. Robinson's Starman series ran for almost seven years until 2001 and in 1997 earned him the prestigious Eisner Award , one of the most important prizes in the US comic industry, in the Best Serialized Story category .
Other works that Robinson presented for DC were the story "Faces" (2006), published as a cross-series crossover in the series Batman and Detective Comics , the miniseries Vigilante and Witchcraft , a spin-off series from Neil Gaiman's Sandman . as well as some Batman stories 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-writer for the superhero series JSA (1997-1998) and the JSA spin-off series Hawkman .
Robinson wrote several issues of the Cable , Generation X and Captain America series for Marvel Comics , worked on the Wildcats and Team One series for Wildstorm and created the Firearm series for Malibu Comics .
In 2003 Robinson submitted a script for the first time, namely for the cinema adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen .
Web links
- "Starman: Everything is enlightened" - essay / presentation of James Robinson's "Starman" on tagesspiegel.de, Stefan Mesch
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| SURNAME | Robinson, James Dale |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British comic book and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester |