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Joseph Michael Straczynski (; born July 17, 1954), known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or jms, is an American writer and producer. He works in films, television series, novels, short stories, comic books, radio dramas and other media. Straczynski is a playwright, former journalist, and author of ''The Complete Book of Scriptwriting''. He was the creator and showrunner for the science fiction television series ''Babylon 5'', its spin-off ''Crusade'', as well as ''Jeremiah'', a series loosely based on Hermann Huppen's comics. Straczynski wrote 92 out of the 110 ''Babylon 5'' episodes, notably including an unbroken 59-episode run through the third and fourth seasons, and all but one episode of the fifth season. He also wrote the four ''Babylon 5'' TV movies produced alongside the series. From 2001 to 2007, he was the writer for the long-running Marvel comic book series ''The Amazing Spider-Man''. He also famously wrote for ''Thor'', ''Superman'', the ''Superman: Earth One'' original graphic novels, ''Before Watchmen'' and ''Wonder Woman''. In 2009, Straczynski was nominated for the BAFTA Award for his screenplay for ''Changeling''.〔 His new series, ''Sense8'', premiered in 2015. Straczynski is a long-time participant in Usenet and other early computer networks, interacting with fans through various online forums (including GEnie, CompuServe, and America Online) since 1984. He is credited as being the first TV producer ("showrunner" in Hollywood parlance) to directly engage with fans on the Internet, and allow their viewpoints to influence the look and feel of his show. (See ''Babylon 5' ''s use of the Internet.) Two prominent areas where he had a presence were GEnie and the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated. Straczynski is a graduate of San Diego State University (SDSU), having earned a BA with a double major in psychology and sociology (with minors in philosophy and literature). While at SDSU, he wrote for the student newspaper, ''The Daily Aztec,'' at times penning so many articles that the paper was jokingly referred to as the "Daily Joe". Straczynski resides in the Los Angeles area. ==Early years== Straczynski was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and is the son of Charles Straczynski, a manual laborer, and Evelyn Straczynski (née Pate). He was raised in Newark, New Jersey; Kankakee, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Chula Vista, California, where he graduated from high school; and San Diego, California. Straczynski's family religion was Catholic, and he has Belarusian ancestry. His grandparents lived in the area which today belongs to Belarus, and fled to America from the Russian Revolution; his father was born in the US, but lived in Poland, Germany and Russia.〔 Straczynski cut his teeth writing plays, having several produced at Southwestern College and San Diego State University before finally publishing his adaptation of "Snow White" with Performance Publishing. Several other plays were produced around San Diego, including "The Apprenticeship" for the Marquis Public Theater. During the late 1970s, Straczynski also became the on-air entertainment reviewer for KSDO-FM and wrote several radio plays before being hired as a scriptwriter for the radio drama ''Alien Worlds''. He also produced his first television project in San Diego, "Marty Sprinkle" for KPBS-TV as well as worked on the XETV-TV project ''Disasterpiece Theatre''. While in San Diego he became a journalist for the ''Los Angeles Times'' as a special San Diego correspondent and also worked for ''San Diego Magazine'' and ''The San Diego Reader''. In 1981 he landed a contract with ''Writer's Digest'' to write a book about scriptwriting. He and Kathryn M. Drennan, whom he met at San Diego State, moved to Los Angeles on April 1, 1981. They would marry in 1983, and separate in 2002.〔〔(Twitter/Facebook post )〕 He worked on his book while planning a transition to television. The book's first edition was published in 1982. In Los Angeles he worked for the ''Los Angeles Herald-Examiner'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', the ''Los Angeles Reader'', ''TV-Cable Week'', and ''People'' magazine.〔 He quit journalism after working for ''People'', and in 1983, he wrote a spec script for the show ''He-Man and the Masters of the Universe'' and the producers of He-Man bought it as well as other scripts and then hired Straczynski as a staff writer.〔 According to the jacket bio for the first edition of his scriptwriting text (see Print below), Straczynski had a play produced when he was 17, a sitcom produced when he was 21, and sold his first movie script when he was 24. It should be noted, however, that these first two credits were for volunteer public radio, and not professional script sales. By 28, his credits included television and film scripts, radio scripts for ''Alien Worlds''〔 and the Mutual Broadcasting System, a dozen plays, and more than 150 newspaper and magazine articles. He taught his craft for years at lectures and seminars in California and elsewhere. He spent five years from 1987 to 1992 co-hosting the ''Hour 25'' radio talk show on KPFK-FM Los Angeles with Larry DiTillio. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J. Michael Straczynski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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