James Tynion IV

James T. Tynion IV (/ˈtaɪnən/; born December 14, 1987) is an American comic book author. He is best known for his work at DC Comics including as the writer on Batman, the Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy, and Justice League Dark volume 2.

He is also known for his creator-owned DC Black Label series The Nice House... and his independent series The Department of Truth, Something Is Killing the Children, Memetic, and The Woods.

In 2022, he won three Eisner Awards for his work. In all, he has won five Eisner Awards. He is also a ten-time nominee for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book, the most nominations of any writer, winning once in 2016.

James Tynion IV was born December 14, 1987, and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended Marquette University High School. While studying creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Tynion met and began studying under Scott Snyder, in the nascent years of his comic book writing career. Following school, he became an intern for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, working under Editor Shelly Bond, among others.

After a brief stint in advertising, Tynion was asked by Scott Snyder to co-write the back-up features for the New 52 relaunch of Batman, beginning with the acclaimed "Night of the Owls" storyline. These features would lead to the launch of a spin-off comic book Talon, co-plotted with Snyder and written by Tynion. In 2013, Tynion released his first original comic series, The Eighth Seal, for Mark Waid's digital comic publisher Thrillbent. Tynion would go on to be one of the head writers of Batman Eternal, a weekly Batman comic series launched in 2014 that was designed to explore the full scope and cast of Gotham City. That same year, he released the GLAAD Media Award-nominated comic title Memetic with artist Eryk Donovan and Award-winning The Woods with Michael Dialynas at Boom Studios. Adaptations of both series are currently in development. In 2016, Tynion's partnership with Boom continued with the PRISM Award-winning comic title The Backstagers, as well as at DC via the first of three Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book crossovers with DC and IDW Publishing, the first ever meeting between the two franchises.

That same year, Tynion was announced as the writer of the biweekly Detective Comics for DC's Rebirth initiative. In 2018, Tynion launched an acclaimed revival of the comic Justice League Dark, which led into the Wonder Woman crossover storyline "The Witching Hour." The following year, he launched the Eisner-winning and Harvey-nominated comic book mini-series Something is Killing the Children, which was later upgraded to an ongoing title due to high demand. A Netflix series adaptation by Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy is currently in development. In 2020, Tynion was announced as the writer of the main Batman comic title, where he would go on to co-create characters like Punchline, Ghost-Maker, Clownhunter, and Miracle Molly. That July, he premiered the self-published horror magazine Razorblades. and on September 30 that year, he launched the Eisner and Harvey-nominated The Department of Truth at Image, The film and television rights to The Department of Truth were purchased by Sister, the production banner co-founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider, and Jane Featherstone, in February 2021.

In 2021, Tynion launched two Eisner Award-nominated comic titles–the first volume of the graphic novel series Wynd at Boom, and the Eisner-winning The Nice House on the Lake at DC Black Label.

2021 also marked Tynion's first Eisner Award for Best Writer. That same year, Tynion and Boom announced a spin-off comic to Something is Killing the Children titled House of Slaughter, co-written with Tate Brombal (and later with Sam Johns), which launched to record numbers. 2021 would also see Tynion leave his exclusive contract with DC and be offered a grant from Substack to launch a slate of original creator-owned comic titles directly on their platform, with the first being the ongoing comic Blue Book with artist Michael Avon Oeming.