Stephen Christy
| Stephen Christy | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1985 (age 31–32) Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Emerson College |
| Occupation |
Editor-in-chief, Archaia Entertainment (2010-13) President of Development, Boom! Studios (2014-present) |
| Years active | 2008-present |
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.
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.
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.
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