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Neil Gaiman was announced to attend the first panel of last Friday's San Diego Comic-Con, The Black Panel run by Michael Davis for its 25th year But sadly flight plans meant that he was unable to attend For the third time, it seems But he did send a video recorded in advance of such an[...]

Michael Davis, co-founder of Milestone Media, co-creator of the Milestone Universe and co-creator of Static – otherwise known as Static Shock – also runs the Black Panel at San Diego Comic-Con Celebrating its twenty-fifth edition today at 10am, the Black Panel is usually a full room, and regular attendees know to get there early Even[...]

I'll be on the first panel of the day tomorrow, The Black Panel at 2pm Yes, I know Then it's Saturday's first panel of the day, Everyone's A Critic at 10am And finally, on Sunday, the How To Get News Coverage panel at 11am. I'll Be On Three Panels At San Diego Comic-Con: Special Edition The Black[...]

Words courtesy of Bleeding Cool's Janel Smith: This being my third consecutive year covering The Black Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, I thought I knew what to expect and to an extent I did, but as usual Michael Davis found a way to surprise me and make me think   First things first the panelists were: Joe Illidge[...]

Michael Davis writes for Bleeding Cool, ahead of today's Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con. We are living in a glorious age of enlightenment. Money has little meaning Class is no longer something we are concerned about Marriage is forever and marriage between the same sexes is allowed There's no racism in the country[...]

I have always told people that the two best panels at San Diego Comic Con are Sergio & Mark on Thursday afternoon and The Black Panel on Friday morning, which has been running since 1998. And while the former continues to entertain a reasonable audience, the latter fills to capacity, and you have to run to[...]

Alumni from his Bad Boy Studio mentor program are some of the most respected talents working in comics, television, and illustration today. Current projects include graphic novels, The Underground from Dark Horse and Jackie Robinson Day 1, mainstream novels such as Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Black People But Were Afraid To Ask from Full Court Press, White Winter, Black[...]

Alumni from his Bad Boy Studio mentor program are some of the most respected talents working in comics, television, and illustration today. Current projects include graphic novels, The Underground from Dark Horse and Jackie Robinson Day 1, mainstream novels such as Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Black People But Were Afraid To Ask from Full Court Press, White Winter, Black[...]

Long story short, they reached out to me and I put them in business with two major companies they were unable get to. After doing so, I was asked to bring The Black Panel to NYCC and I did So imagine my surprise when the next year, I'm told The Black Panel did not fit the[...]

Alumni from his Bad Boy Studio mentor program are some of the most respected talents working in comics, television, and illustration today. Current projects include graphic novels, The Underground from Dark Horse and Jackie Robinson Day 1, mainstream novels such as Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Black People But Were Afraid To Ask from Full Court Press, White Winter, Black[...]

That science fiction wasn't popular with black audiences because they didn't see themselves in the future. We ran the story, it went a little on the viral side. Today, Erika was on the Black Panel at San Diego had a response to that, from producer and creative partner on Concrete Park, Tony Puryear. "For black people, the past is[...]

"Last year after the Black Panel, me and Orlando Jones were smoking crack And Orlando says … this is some good crack!" – Michael Davis. The Black Panel is a San Diego Comic Con tradition And it would be a solid, optimistic, future looking, respectful – and ultimately a little dull if it wasn't for the[...]

He writes, The Black Panel is a forum made up of major players from the African American media space The panel is held every year at Comic Con International in San Diego, as well as other venues in the United States and abroad. These innovators are not invited to sit on the panel to talk about the[...]

He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool This is the second in an series begun last week Although closeted in the interim report of the comic book hearings, race was not an issue that America really wanted to deal with, and perhaps[...]

Straight from the Black Panel at San Diego Comic con… Number 13 Based on the Dark Horse comic If you see only one thing from Con… Then what the hell are you doing on Bleeding Cool? But it should be this… [youtube]Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBpOoQee6rA[/youtube] David Walker and his folks have investment meetings on Monday, get this proof of concept[...]