Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, storyteller, entertainment executive, co-founder of Milestone Comics, co-creator of Static Shock, Hardware, Icon, and Blood Syndicate, and creator and host of San Diego Comic-Con's The Black Panel. He writes From The Edge for Bleeding Cool and ComicMix. Michael Davis writes about the return of Milestone, Static and Black History Month. For Black History […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, storyteller, entertainment executive, co-founder of Milestone Comics, co-creator of Static Shock, Hardware, Icon, and Blood Syndicate, and creator and host of San Diego Comic-Con's The Black Panel. He writes From The Edge for Bleeding Cool and ComicMix. He writes about Ray Fisher; Ray Fisher is out at Warner Bros. From what […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, storyteller, entertainment executive, co-founder of Milestone Comics, co-creator of Static Shock, Hardware, Icon, and Blood Syndicate and creator and host of San Diego Comic-Con's The Black Panel. He writes for From The Edge for Bleeding Cool and for ComicMix. He writes; A version of this appeared in Comicmix in 2012. I've […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive, co-founder of Milestone Comics, co-creator of Static Shock, Hardware, Icon and Blood Syndicate and creator and host of San Diego Comic-Con's The Black Panel. He writes for From The Edge for Bleeding Cool and for ComicMix. He writes; Writers note: Many websites pick up my column. One is a well-known entertainment […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive, co-founder of Milestone Comics, co-creator of Static Shock, Hardware, Icon and Blood Syndicate and creator and host of San Diego Comic-Con's The Black Panel. He writes for From The Edge for Bleeding Cool and for ComicMix. This week, he tackles the current global situation, and the […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone. You can read previous columns here. He writes, A long time ago. My wife and I were finishing dinner at a Tribeca restaurant. Tribeca is a trendy part of New York located between Chinatown and the Financial District (Wall Street) as was […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone. He writes, I've said countless times there is or was nobody more Milestone than Dwayne McDuffie. Dwayne was the heart and soul behind our universe deserves every accolade every honor bestowed upon him; he was one of the best writers and editors to […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone. He writes, The granddaddy of all comic book Oscar nominations up to now is The Black Panther for Best Picture and Heath Ledger's win for best supporting actor in 2009. Movies from the superhero genre are the ugly stepchild of the entertainment industry. […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone. He writes, This series started because I received a pretty angry email from the mother of a talented Black writer. Please read part 1 of this series for additional background. Comic books for me and every person I know in the industry […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone. He writes, Full disclosure: Both Orlando Jones and Neil Gaiman are friends of mine take from that what you will. "I want to tell you guys a story about Orlando Jones." Above is the first line of several tweets about Orlando Jones. The […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone. He writes, Recently I was taken to task by a young African American writer's…mom. Did I mention the writer was an adult? Her mother objected to my decision not to use her work on a high-profile project. She's an excellent writer, but […]
Michael Davis, co-founder of Milestone Comics, writer, producer, artist and mentor writes: Martin Scorsese is doing a superhero movie, and I'm the lucky bastard chosen to do the movie poster! Man, this will piss off my haters, big time! Good. It's been far too long since I put them who will be named in their […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive, co-founder of Milestone and very much alive. You can read his previous columns for Bleeding Cool here. He writes, I have a long running tradition of giving my readers a gift on my birthday. That gift was usually a piece about an amazing person. Two days […]
Michael Davis, co-founder of Milestone Comics, writer, producer, artist and mentor writes: Denys Cowan and I were walking the halls of Motown Records. Denys had just joined me at Motown Animation and Filmworks as Senior Vice President. I was giving him the ten-cent tour of Motown's brand spanking new offices as we discussed plans to […]
Michael Davis, co-founder of Milestone Comics, writer, producer, artist and mentor writes: Prologue: The Golden Age Myth My views of the industry are my personal opinion; however, any event I share regarding treatment of me is 100% true, and I can provide documentation for any person or company disputing my accounts. They won't. There was […]
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool re-ran Michael Davis' essay from 2014 about Harlan Ellison, after his passing. Michael Davis, comic book creator, mentor, and publisher writes: Note: I wrote the above in 2014. What's below took me two weeks as I've been battling depression blah blah blah blah poor me etc. Twenty minutes after I first met […]
Michael Davis, comic book creator, mentor, and publisher writes: The Trouble with Black Comics! That's the real title, just in case some white editor looking to cheapen this narrative with clickbait changes the name of the title to The Trouble with Black People. That's a joke. It may not be you, but you know someone […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone. He writes, This article processes some hard truths many won't like. The first part of this narrative Milestone is dead got a lot of people talking. Nothing and I mean nothing in that article was new. I've written about what and why […]
Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone. He writes, 1993 More than 20 years ago my swagger caused a rift between DC Comics and myself and that caused problems between DC and Milestone. The pressure was put on Milestone to silence me. Silence me from what you ask? Calling […]
Michael Davis, writer, editor, publisher, mentor, co-founder and co-creator of Milestone Comics writes, Fair warning: little in this article has a thing to do with pop culture. So, if your intention is to bitch about that after reading this let me do it for you: Clueless Cow writes: Why is this in Bleeding Cool? Rich, can't […]