Ben Blacker
writer; producer/host The Writers Panel podcast; co-creator, Thrilling Adventure Hour
Ben Blacker is best known as the creator, with his writing partner Ben Acker, of the
Thrilling Adventure Hour, a staged show in the style of old time radio, that ran monthly for ten years to sold out crowds, an LA staple. The show ran as a podcast for five years and won awards and garnered acclaim everywhere from the
LA Weekly to
Rolling Stone.With Acker, Blacker has sold pilots to USA, Fox, Nickelodeon, Spike, and other networks. He's written on the shows
Supernatural,
Puss in Boots, and more. Acker & Blacker are the authors of the
Star Wars: Join the Resistance series, canonical young adult novels set in the
Star Wars universe. In comics, they have written
Deadpool,
Star Wars,
Weapon Hex, and more for Marvel,
Flash Gordon for Dynamite, supernatural western
Death Be Damned and
Thrilling Adventure Hour spin-off series for Boom!, and more. They are currently developing a series for a cable network that they're not allowed to talk about and a film for a movie studio that they're not allowed to talk about.On his own, Blacker is the writer and creator of
HEX WIVES, part of the DC/Vertigo Comics relaunch. Illustrated by Mirka Andolfo and colored by Marissa Louise, Hex Wives is "
Bewitched meets
The Stepford Wives." He is the creator and host of The Writers Panel, a podcast in which he talks with writers about the business and process of writing television. Blacker has interviewed over 1000 professional writers in over 400 episodes of the show. He's also the co-producer of
Dead Pilots Society, the live show and podcast in which pilots by professional writers that were bought and developed but never produced are given the table reads they so richly deserve.