In 2022, he won threeEisner Awards for his work. In all, he has won five Eisner Awards. He is also a ten-time nominee for theGLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book, the most nominations of any writer, winning once in 2016.
After a brief stint in advertising, Tynion was asked by Scott Snyder to co-write the back-up features for theNew 52 relaunch ofBatman, beginning with the acclaimed "Night of the Owls" storyline. These features would lead to the launch of a spin-off comic bookTalon, co-plotted with Snyder and written by Tynion.[4] In 2013, Tynion released his first original comic series,The Eighth Seal, forMark Waid's digital comic publisher Thrillbent.[5] Tynion would go on to be one of the head writers ofBatman Eternal, a weekly Batman comic series launched in 2014 that was designed to explore the full scope and cast ofGotham City.[6] That same year, he released theGLAAD Media Award-nominated comic titleMemetic with artist Eryk Donovan and Award-winningThe Woods with Michael Dialynas atBoom Studios.[7] Adaptations of both series are currently in development.[8][9] In 2016, Tynion's partnership with Boom continued with the PRISM Award-winning comic titleThe Backstagers,[10] as well as at DC via the first of threeBatman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book crossovers with DC andIDW Publishing, the first ever meeting between the two franchises.[11]
That same year, Tynion was announced as the writer of the biweeklyDetective Comics for DC'sRebirth initiative.[12] In 2018, Tynion launched an acclaimed revival of the comicJustice League Dark,[13] which led into theWonder Woman crossover storyline "The Witching Hour."[14] The following year, he launched theEisner-winning andHarvey-nominated comic book mini-seriesSomething is Killing the Children, which was later upgraded to an ongoing title due to high demand.[15] ANetflix series adaptation byMike Flanagan and Trevor Macy is currently in development.[16] In 2020, Tynion was announced as the writer of the mainBatman comic title, where he would go on to co-create characters like Punchline, Ghost-Maker, Clownhunter, and Miracle Molly.[17] That July, he premiered the self-published horror magazineRazorblades.[18] and on September 30 that year, he launched the Eisner and Harvey-nominatedThe Department of Truth at Image,[19] The film and television rights toThe Department of Truth were purchased by Sister, the production banner co-founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider, and Jane Featherstone, in February 2021.[20]
In 2021, Tynion launched two Eisner Award-nominated comic titles–the first volume of the graphic novel seriesWynd at Boom,[21] and the Eisner-winningThe Nice House on the Lake atDC Black Label.[22]
2021 also marked Tynion's firstEisner Award for Best Writer.[23] That same year, Tynion and Boom announced a spin-off comic toSomething is Killing the Children titledHouse of Slaughter, co-written with Tate Brombal (and later with Sam Johns),[24] which launched to record numbers.[25] 2021 would also see Tynion leave his exclusive contract with DC and be offered a grant fromSubstack to launch a slate of original creator-owned comic titles directly on their platform, with the first being the ongoing comicBlue Book with artistMichael Avon Oeming.[26][27]
In August 2021, Tynion was among a group of creators with whom fellow comics writerNick Spencer formed a deal with the subscription-based newsletter platformSubstack to publishcreator-owned comics stories, essays, and instructional guides. Tynion indicated that he would end his tenure on theBatman books in order to concentrate his time on his Substack newsletter, which would includeBlue Book, anonfiction series illustrated byMichael Avon Oeming, and based on accounts ofalien encounters[27] and the supernatural, to premiere in February 2023.[28] The series would be released in ten page chapters, twice a month, on Fridays. The first chapter would depict the 1961Barney and Betty Hill incident, in which the Hills stated that they were abducted from theWhite Mountains in New Hampshire by aliens.[29] In October 2023, it was announced that a second chapter, titledBlue Book: 1947, which focuses on new characters, was scheduled to be published in February 2024.[30]
In February 2022, Tynion launched on Substack two ongoing comics series:The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos, which is written by Tate Brombal, and based on an idea by Tynion;True Weird,[31][32] and the limited comic seriesThe Closet, which would later be re-published byImage Comics.[33] That April, Tynion launchedThe Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country, a spin-off of theVertigo comic bookThe Sandman.[34] That November, it was reported that Tynion had partnered withDark Horse Comics to release print versions of Tiny Onion's Substack books, as well as original stories.[35]
Tynion contributed to the comic anthologyThe Devil's Cut, which was published by the publishing startup DSTLRY in 2023.[36] He also began a new horror series for Image, entitledW0rldtr33, with artist Fernando Blanco, with publication beginning in April 2023.[37][38]
On February 16, 2024, Tynion announced that he was creating a new production studio called Tiny Onion in collaboration withLyrical Media who had invested seven figures in the studio. The purpose of the new studio as outlined by Tynion will be to aid in "the development, packaging, marketing and cross-platform promotion of new creator-owned work" as well as "be a springboard for new creator-owned IP to spread beyond comics into film, gaming and even animation."[39][needs update]
Blue Book #1–present (with Michael Avon Oeming, 2021–present; re-published byDark Horse Comics)
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos #1–present (co-written by Tate Brombal, with Isaac Goodhart, Miquel Muerto, Nick Robles, 2022–present; re-published by Dark Horse Comics)
Razorblades: The Horror Magazine #1–5 (with Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Andy Belanger, Martin Simmonds, Fernando Blanco, Josh Hixson, Liana Kangas, 2020–2021)
True Weird ("Coney Island" with Klaus Janson, 2022)
2023 Eisner Award for Best Writer for House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country, The Closet, The Department of Truth
2022 Eisner Award for Best New Series for "The Nice House on the Lake"
2022 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series for "Something is Killing the Children"
2022 Eisner Award for Best Writer for "The Department of Truth", "The Nice House on the Lake", "Something is Killing the Children", "Wynd"
2022 Ringo Award for Best Writer
2022 Ringo Award for Best Series for "Something is Killing the Children"
2022 Ringo Award for Best Single Issue or Story for "Something is Killing the Children #20"
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