Big things are happening at Tiny Onion. The production house founded by writer James Tynion IV announced last week that it is promoting Eric Harburn from director of editorial to both director of narrative and editor-in-chief. In these new positions, Harburn will not just oversee the continued production of Tiny Onion’s comics and graphic novels, but also its new narrative department, which represents storytelling across other media like TV, film, and games.
Harburn edited Tiny Onion’s first major comic book project, “Exquisite Corpses” by Tynion and artist Michael Walsh, which centers on a deadly game played every five years on Halloween, when the wealthiest families in America unleash 12 of the world’s most dangerous killers on an unsuspecting town. It became the highest-selling original IP launch of 2025 in the comic book direct market. Tiny Onion’s next comic, debuting later this month, is “In Your Skin,” a Bollywood body horror series co-created by writer Aditya Bidikar and artist Som. Bidikar is part of the company’s artists in residence program, which gives creators a platform to tell their own stories and also includes colorist Jordie Bellaire, cartoonist Tyler Boss, and writer Tate Brombal.
“Comics will always be at the very heart of what we do at Tiny Onion, and we have bold publishing plans in store for 2026 and beyond,” Harburn said in a statement. “I’m incredibly proud of the work our editorial team has produced during these first two years of the company, and I can’t wait to take everything we’ve learned and apply the same bestselling, award-winning storytelling principles to the wide variety of other narrative mediums we’re passionate about.”
Deadline reported last month that Tiny Onion is working to adapt Exquisite Corpses into both a live-action film and a companion trading card game; the latter is aiming to release this summer. Since Harburn has overseen Exquisite Corpses since the beginning alongside fellow Tiny Onion editors Steve Foxe and Greg Lockard, it makes sense for him to be involved in the adaptation process, even though that’s not usually how things are done in Hollywood.
"Something I've seen too often in multimedia development is that the people essential to making an original story great are siloed out of the process of adapting those stories into other media,” Tynion said in a statement. "At Tiny Onion, we're focused on building worlds that can thrive across media, and there's nobody I trust more to build a world with me than the editor who helped me build ‘Something Is Killing The Children’ into the franchise it is today. Eric’s instincts are stellar, and I'm excited to see them applied not just on comics, but on every new iteration we build for each of our worlds."
Before joining Tiny Onion, Harburn was an executive editor at Boom! Studios, where he helped Tynion develop “Something Is Killing the Children” and “The Woods.” He also worked with Keanu Reeves on “BRZRKR,” which Netflix is adapting into both a live-action film and anime series, and edited “The Many Deaths of Laila Starr” by Ram V and Filipe Andrade.
