Tini Howard

Tini Howard
Howard in 2021
Born	1985
Occupation	Comic book writer
Website
www.tinihoward.com

Tini Howard (born 1985) is an American comic book writer. She is best known for her work on X-Men titles, namely Excalibur as well as Boom Studio's Power Ranger titles. It was announced in mid-October 2021 that she would be taking over Catwoman (comic book) at DC Comics starting with issue #39.

Career

As a winner of the 2013 Top Cow Talent Hunt, Tini Howard's first comics credit was 2014's Magdalena: Seventh Sacrament. She then continued working with Top Cow Productions. She has since been a writer on comic book iterations of properties like Rick and Morty, Power Rangers and Barbie, as well as created comic books like Assassinistas and Euthanauts, which were published by IDW.

In 2019 at the C2E2 "Women of Marvel" panel, it was announced Howard had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics.^[1] Since then, she's worked on the company writing Excalibur (as part of Dawn of X), Strikeforce, Death's Head, Thanos and Age of Conan: Belit.

Bibliography

Comics

DC Comics

• Catwoman (vol. 5) #39–present (illustrated by Nico Leon, Sami Basri, Stefano Raffaele, January 2022-present)
  • Catwoman Vol. 1: Dangerous Liaisons (collecting Catwoman (vol. 5) #39-44, illustrated by Nico Leon & Bengal, trade paperback, 160 pages 2022, ISBN 1-7795-1728-9)
  • Catwoman Vol. 2: Cat International (collecting Catwoman (vol. 5) #45-50, illustrated by Nico Leon & Sami Basri, trade paperback, 176 pages 2023, ISBN 1-7795-2032-8)
  • Catwoman Vol. 3: Duchess of Gotham (collecting Catwoman (vol. 5) #51-56, illustrated by Nico Leon & Sami Basri, trade paperback, 176 pages 2023, ISBN 1-7795-2332-7)
• Harley Quinn (vol. 4) #28–present (illustrated by Sweeney Boo, March 2023-present)
  • Harley Quinn Vol. 1: Girl in a Crisis (collecting Harley Quinn (vol. 4) #28-32, illustrated by Sweeney Boo, trade paperback, 144 pages, 2024, ISBN 1-7795-2823-X)

IDW Publishing

• Assassinistas (collecting Assassinistas #1–6, illustrated by Gilbert Hernandez, trade paperback, 152 pages, 2018, ISBN 1-6840-5271-8)
• Euthanauts: Ground Control (collecting Euthanauts #1–5, illustrated by Nick Robles, trade paperback, 136 pages, 2019, ISBN 1-6840-5404-4)

Marvel Comics

• Age of Conan: Bêlit: Queen of the Black Coast (collecting Age of Conan: Bêlit (vol. 1) #1–5, illustrated by Kate Niemczyk, trade paperback, 112 pages, 2019, ISBN 978-1302916954) ^[2]
• Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain #1-5, illustrated by Vasco Georgiev (2023)
• Thanos: Zero Sanctuary (collecting Thanos (vol. 3) #1–6, illustrated by Ariel Olivetti, trade paperback, 144 pages, 2019, ISBN 1-3029-1770-6)
• Death's Head: Clone Drive (collecting Death's Head #1–4, illustrated by Kei Zama, trade paperback, 112 pages, 2019, ISBN 1-3029-1787-0)
• Strikeforce #1–9 (illustrated by Germán Peralta, Max Fiumara, Marika Cresta, Stacey Lee & Jacopo Camagni, September 2019–August 2020)^[3]
  • Strikeforce - Volume 1: Trust Me (collecting Strikeforce #1–5, illustrated by Germán Peralta, Max Fiumara, Marika Cresta, Stacey Lee & Jacopo Camagni, trade paperback, 112 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-3029-2009-X)
  • Strikeforce - Volume 2: Fight Me (collecting Strikeforce #6-9 + The War of the Realms Strikeforce: The Dark Elf Realm #1, illustrated by Germán Peralta & Jacopo Camagni, trade paperback, 112 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-3029-2010-3)
• Excalibur (vol. 4) #1–26 (illustrated by Marcus To & Wilton Santos, October 2019–January 2022)^[4]
  • Excalibur by Tini Howard: Volume 1 (collecting Excalibur (vol. 4) #1–6, illustrated by Marcus To, trade paperback, 176 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-3029-1991-1)
  • Excalibur by Tini Howard: Volume 2 (collecting Excalibur (vol. 4) #7–11, illustrated by Marcus To & Wilton Santos, trade paperback, 112 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-3029-2146-0)
  • Excalibur by Tini Howard: Volume 3 (collecting Excalibur (vol. 4) #16-21, illustrated by Marcus To, trade paperback, 160 pages, 2021, ISBN 978-1302924843)
• Empyre: X-Men #1 (with Jonathan Hickman, illustrated by Matteo Buffagni, July 2020)^[5]
• Knights of X #1-5, illustrated by Robert Quinn (2022)
• X of Swords: Creation #1 (with Jonathan Hickman, illustrated by Pepe Larraz, September 2020)^[6]
• X of Swords: Stasis #1 (with Jonathan Hickman, illustrated by Pepe Larraz and Mahmud Asrar, October 2020)^[7]
• X of Swords: Destruction #1 (with Jonathan Hickman, illustrated by Pepe Larraz, November 2020)^[8]

Oni Press

• Rick and Morty #33, #37–38, #41–42, #44–46, #50, #53–54 (December 2017–September 2019)
• Rick and Morty – Pocket Like You Stole It #1–5 (July–November 2017)
• Rick and Morty Presents – Unity #1 (#8 overall; November 2019)

Awards and nominations

• 2013 Top Cow Talent Hunt — Winner^[9]
• 2024 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book — Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain (Marvel Comics) — Nomination^[10]

References