James Robinson was born in Great Britain but has lived in the U.S. since 1989 where he began working in comics initially for DC and Dark Horse Comics. Among his more known and regarded works are Grendel Tales: Four Devils, One Hell, sundry Legends of the Dark Knight arcs, Superman, Justice League of America, Batman, Detective Comics, Wonder Woman, and Earth 2. He is perhaps most well-known for his award-winning runs on both Starman and Leave It To Chance.
After a long working relationship with DC Comics, James made the switch to Marvel Comics where he wrote All-New Invaders, the Fantastic Four, Nick Fury, and the Scarlet Witch among other titles. He also wrote Airboy for Image Comics, and Grand Passion and Felix Leiter for Dynamite Comics.
James work in films includes scripts for every major studio, including The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for 20th Century Fox. He also wrote and directed the black comedy Comic Book Villains for Goldcrest. In TV, James was a writer/co-exec producer on Stargirl for the WB for three seasons.
After that, he returned to comics with several creator-owned series for Dark Horse including ‘Patra, Welcome To The Maynard, Los Monstruos, and The Adventures of Lumen N. He is also writing an on-going Kickstarter comic, Rogues’ Kingdom.
His first novel, The Singular Pair will be published this year.
James resides in Las Vegas with his wife Alyson and their dogs.