Michael Reaves

James Michael Reaves September 14 1950 March 20 2023 was an American writer known for his contributions as a script writer and story editor to a number of 1980s and 1990s animated television series including Gargoyles and Batman The Animated Series He also wrote media tiein novels childrens books and original fiction and was one of four credited screenwriters for the animated feature Batman Mask of the Phantasm His work was often done collaboratively notably with his thenwife Brynne Stephens for numerous TV episodes in the 1980s and 1990s and with Steve Perry Neil Gaiman Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff and his daughter Mallory Reaves for various novels Reaves won a 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program for his work on Batman The Animated Series Reaves had Parkinsons disease and for a time maintained a blog concerning his experiences dealing with the disease and its effects which included difficulty typing and loss of coherent speech In 2013 Reaves raised 85000 in a Kickstarter campaign to fund the filming of a featurelength script he had written called Blood Kiss with the picture set to star Neil Gaiman in his acting debut Despite exceeding the stated fundraising goal the film was never made Reaves died in Los Angeles on March 20 2023 at the age of 72 Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Reaves licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia