Michael Reaves#Anthologies and collections

{{Short description|American writer (1950–2023)}}

{{about|the American writer|people with similar names|Michael Reeves (disambiguation){{!}}Michael Reeves}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Michael Reaves

| image = James Michael Reaves.jpg

| caption = Reaves in 1990

| birth_name = James Michael Reaves

| othername = J. Michael Reaves

| birth_date = {{birth date|1950|9|14}}

| birth_place = San Bernardino, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|3|20|1950|9|14}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = Writer

| years_active = 1973–2015

| known_for = 1980s and 1990s animated television series

| website =

}}

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 has also written media tie-in novels, children's books, and original fiction. His work was often done collaboratively, notably with his then-wife 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-28-ca-40748-story.html|title=Lucci Loses Emmy for 14th Time : Television: She's beat out of best actress honors by 'Another World's' Linda Dano. CBS' 'Young and Restless' wins the best drama series award|work=Los Angeles Times|language=en|date=28 May 1993|access-date=8 November 2015}}

Reaves had Parkinson's 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.http://michaelreaveswriter.blogspot.com/ {{User-generated source|date=August 2022}}{{cite web|url=http://mousecircus.com/bookdetails.aspx?BookID=22 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-04-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413144910/http://mousecircus.com/bookdetails.aspx?BookID=22 |archive-date=2014-04-13 }} Reaves died in Los Angeles on March 20, 2023, at the age of 72.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-22 |title=Michael Reaves, TV, Prose and Comics Writer, Dead at 72 |url=http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/michael-reeves-obit/ |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=Multiversity Comics |language=en}}