We are pleased to announce that Christy Marx (Creator of the Jem Animated Series) will be a virtual guest at JemCon 2022!

Christy Marx is an award-winning scriptwriter and videogame designer who worked for Sunbow Productions, Marvel Entertainment and other studios as a writer, developer, and story editor for many beloved brands. In addition to Jem and the Holograms, she worked on other cartoon hits such as G.I. Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, Bucky O'Hare, Reboot, War Planets/Shadow Raiders, Beast Wars, and Conan the Adventurer. With co-writer and husband, Randy Littlejohn, their credits include X-Men, Stargate, and He-Man. In live-action, she wrote for Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Babylon 5 and Twilight Zone, and was Executive Story Editor/writer on Hypernauts.

She designed the Conquests of Camelot and Conquests of the Longbow adventure games for Sierra On-Line, has written for numerous games, and spent six years at Zynga as a Principal Game Designer/Narrative Designer. In comics, she's known for her original series, The Sisterhood of Steel, and writing for established books such as Conan, Red Sonja, Amethyst, Birds of Prey, and others. Most recently, she has written digital comic stories for new comics company Interpop.

In 2000, she was awarded the Animation Writers Caucus Animation Award from the Writers Guild of America for her contribution to the field of animation writing. She has completed an updated, second edition of her book, Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games.