J. Michael Straczynski

Pencils on Rising Stars are done by Christian Zanier, and by Gary Frank on Midnight Nation.

Previously, Straczynski (co-)wrote Babylon 5 comics for DC Comics, based on his own tv-show.

JMS recently announced that Marvel Comics is entrusting The Amazing Spider Man to him. According at a post by him in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated the first JMS written issues should be out in March or April of 2001.

He is also working on a new television series to be shown on Showtime, it will be in the sci-fi genre, but it won't be in the Babylon 5 universe. At the time of this writing, the show is in the early planning stages, with a pilot expected in early 2001. The show will be based on the european comic Jeremiah.

Finally, he has a script for a Rising Stars movie is in the works, but that project is also in the early stages.

• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (staff writer)
• She-Ra: Princess of Power (staff writer)
• Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (writer)
• Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (writer, story editor)
• The Real Ghostbusters (writer, story editor)
• The Twilight Zone (the 1980's version - writer, story editor)
• Murder, She Wrote (writer, co-producer)
• Jake and the Fatman (executive story editor)
• Walker, Texas Ranger (writer, supervising producer)
• Babylon 5 (creator, executive producer, writer, director)
• Crusade (creator, executive producer, writer)
• Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (creator, executive producer, writer)
• Jeremiah (executive producer, writer)