Jody Houser
New York Times-bestselling comics writer behind Faith, Mother Panic, Star Wars: Thrawn, Stranger Things, and Critical Role's prequel graphic novels.
Jody Houser writes characters you’d follow anywhere — and she’s proven it across the biggest franchises in comics. At Valiant, she made Faith the publisher’s first female-led ongoing series, turning a fan-favorite supporting character into a flying, fangirl superhero with genuine heart. At DC, she co-created Mother Panic for the Young Animal imprint with artist Tommy Lee Edwards — a jagged, punk-edged Gotham tale that showed her range. Add a 2017 Eisner Award nomination and a shelf of Star Wars: Thrawn, Stranger Things, and Supergirl: Being Super credits, and you have one of the most versatile writers in the industry.
Houser has been essential to the Critical Role comics line since the beginning, scripting the Vox Machina Origins series whose collected editions landed on the New York Times bestseller list. For Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins, she wrote two of the series’ most emotionally bruising volumes: Caleb Widogast, the wizard whose academy-burning past haunts every spell he casts, and Mollymauk Tealeaf, the amnesiac tiefling showman reborn into a life he doesn’t remember.
Her talent is making tragedy feel intimate — every page of Caleb’s story aches with the weight of guilt, while Mollymauk’s finds joy in borrowed time. It’s why Dark Horse keeps tapping her for their most character-driven adaptations, and why fans of Faith and Mother Panic followed her straight into Exandria.
Perfect for fans of emotionally grounded superheroics, franchise tie-ins with real stakes, and the quiet, human moments between the explosions.
