Stephen Christy (born 1985)[1] is an American film and television producer, entertainment executive, and former graphic novel editor.
He was formerly 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.
[2] He attended the Latin School of Chicago,[3] and then Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating in 2007 with a degree in film and television production.
[5][6][7][8] 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;[9] the American English-language re-launch of Shotaro Ishinomori's classic manga Cyborg 009;[10][11] 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.
[12][13] 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.
Studios acquired Archaia Entertainment,[22] creating the largest library of comic book IP outside of Marvel and DC.
Studios, overseeing all film, television, web and animation projects in development at the company's four brands: Boom!, Archaia, KaBoom!
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.
[29] Christy was set to produce Mouse Guard with Matt Reeves, a $170 million CGI motion-capture fantasy film based on the graphic novels.
The film was greenlit by 20th Century Fox and was to be directed by Wes Ball and set to star Idris Elba, Andy Serkis, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.