Christopher Yost is a comic book and animation writer best known as the co-writer (with his frequent collaborator Craig Kyle) of the comic book series New X-Men and X-Force.
Yost began his career in 2002 as an intern in Marvel Comics' west coast office. His spec film scripts got attention from Marvel executives who hired Yost to write episodes of the TV series Evolution. In 2003, Yost and Kyle co-wrote the episodes that introduced mutant character X-23, female clone of the popular X-Men character Wolverine. Marvel executives were impressed with X-23’s reception on TV, and asked Yost and Kyle to adapt the character into comics, first by writing a six-issue mini-series titled X-23: Innocence Lost, and then by taking over writing chores (as of issue #20) on the New X-Men title, bringing X-23 in as a regular character. Yost and Kyle also co-wrote a second X-23 six-issue miniseries, titled X-23: Target X.
Currently, Yost co-writes the latest incarnation of X-Force with Craig Kyle since the New X-Men title was canceled as of issue #46. Yost also recently wrote a five-issue mini-series titled Emperor Vulcan, a spin-off mini from the Uncanny X-Men story arc "The Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire", featuring the third Summers brother, Gabriel (alias Vulcan), in his quest to bring stability to the struggling Shi'ar Empire after his successful coup d'etat against previous empress Lilandra. He is following this up with the Kingbreaker mini-series, which sets the scene for the War of Kings storyline Yost is also the writer of Battle School, the first in a series of adaptations of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game by Marvel.
Yost has also written for such animated shows as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Batman and was the story editor, head writer and show runner on the Fantastic Four animated series that aired on Cartoon Network in 2006. He also wrote the Young Avengers / Runaways crossover Secret Invasion story. He is currently the show runner for the Armored Adventures animated series, that started airing in 2008.
Yost was featured as the “Male Rising Star” in the Spring 2006 issue of Now Playing magazine.
Yost is also the writer for DC Comics' Red Robin that started in June 2009. He will be replaced by former Robin writer Fabian Nicieza.
Dark X-Men: The Confession #1 (with co-writer Craig Kyle and art by Yanick Paquette, 2009)
X-Men: Second Coming #1-2 (#1 with co-writer Craig Kyle and art by David Finch; #2 with co-writers Matt Fraction, Mike Carey and Zeb Wells and art by Adi Granov, 2010)
