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The family is inspired by historical real-life and fictional figures: iconic writer Dwayne McDuffie, legendary comics creator Jackie Ormes, Disney's "The Famous Jett Jackson", award-winning science fiction author Octavia Butler, and legendary actor Tony Todd of the seminal horror film "Candyman"." "Dwayne and Jackie's youngest son, 10-year-old Todd McKali, is a child prodigy who incorporates all[...]

The ceremony announcing the winner of the 2020 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics will take place online, on Saturday, the 20th of February, on what would have been Dwayne McDuffie's 59th birthday The finalists are as follows: Iyanu: Child of Wonder written by Roye Okupe, illustrated by Godwin Akpan They Called Us Enemy written by[...]

The 2020 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics has announced finalists for its sixth annual prize, with the winner to be announced during Black History Month Continuing as Director of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics, Will J Watkins stated "This award, like the man for whom it is named, has proven itself[...]

The Dwayne McDuffie: A League Of His Own tribute film playing out on DC Fandome was originally released with the DC Animated Movie Justice League Doom The film speaks to Dwayne McDuffie's friends, family, work colleagues and those who inspired him, including much from his widow, and champion of his memory, Charlotte Fullerton McDuffie. The film[...]

After a brief delay, the 2020 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics is now officially accepting submissions for it's september Award They also welcome two new Selection Committee Members, A Distant Soil creator and Sandman artist, Colleen Doran and co-creator of Blade, Cyborg, Deathstroke, Nightwing and Black Cat, Marv Wolfman. The 6th annual Dwayne McDuffie[...]

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 ever to put pen to paper He was all that and more[...]

In August 2017, it was announced that Charlotte McDuffie was suing the founders of Milestone Media 2.0 over rights held by original co-founder of Milestone, her late husband Dwayne McDuffie Milestone 2.0 was announced back in 2015, a revival of the original multi-racial focused Milestone Media superhero comics line published by DC Comics in the nineties,[...]

Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival has announced the short list for the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids' Comics The nominations, say a press release,"represent the great variety of comics for young readers that Kids Read Comics, the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival, and the Dwayne McDuffie Award celebrate And that Dwayne McDuffie himself championed in[...]

But according to Charlotte McDuffie, wife of the late Dwayne McDuffie, despite the revival's genesis taking place at his wake, the new group left McDuffie's estate out of the new deal. That's what McDuffie is claiming in a lawsuit first reported on today by Variety Suing for compensatory damages, punitive damages, legal costs, and "such other and[...]

Time to add yet another award to Raina Telgemeier's long list of accolades. The children's graphic novel mogul won the third annual Dwayne McDuffy Award

He's also been in Fargo, Parks And Rec and much more more. Talking on the You Made It Weird podcast (embedded above), Keegan talked about his family history as an adopted child, and them tracing his late biological father's family and finding that he had two half-brothers who had also passed away, one aged 45 and[...]

Milestone Media was founded by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek T Dingle A comic book publisher, that distributed its comics through DC Comics in the nineties, they brought a much needed greater ethnic mix to the superhero comics on the stand, and one much missed, as well as telling some damn fine[...]

I'd heard that this may be coming back since the summer, though Washington Post dates the murmuring to the wake of co-founder Dwayne McDuffie in 2011, between other founders Reggie Hudlin, Denys Cowan and Derek Dingle. "Derek said, 'It's been too long We've got to restart the company'," Hudlin recounts to The Post's Comic Riffs, of that[...]

Such as the Doctor Strange movie announcement necessitating a few new collections such as Doctor Strange: Don't Pay the Ferryman, presumably collecting a run from his eighties series that includes issue 80 by Peter Gillis and Chris Warner. But among the books is Damage Control: The Complete Collection which, presumably, will collect all the Damage Control mini-series over the[...]

He writes, Twenty-one years ago, five friends, Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle, Dwayne McDuffie, Christopher Priest, and I partner to form Milestone Media The Dakota Universe was born soon afterwards There was one goal above all: to create a universe of good stories, well told, featuring characters of color. We did, and when we did, comics changed. Milestone was[...]

Long Beach Comic Con has announced (through 13th Dimension) that they are going to be announcing a Dwayne McDuffie Award McDuffie was a comic and television writer who created the animated TV series Static Shock as well as co-founding Milestone Comics, the first minority owned and operated comic publisher He passed away one day after[...]

At least that's what Dwayne McDuffie said when he, Robert Washington, Malcolm Jones III and I sit down to create a comic book… So I ask again, here, today, during yet another bout with my depression, why not spare my friends the pain of a trial where the outcome will most likely be "not guilty" and[...]

She really had a lot of heart, and that spoke to her co-creator, the departed Dwayne McDuffie, who was a man with a lot of heart. [Rocket] NF: The launch of the Milestone line of comics in 1993 was part of an amazing moment of change in the history of American comics, with DC's Vertigo imprint having[...]

A chance to following in the steps of Dwayne McDuffie, the late and beloved writer of The Justice League in comics and animation; a chance to be a Christopher Priest, who wrote not only Falcon, Power Man and Iron Fist and Black Panther but also wrote Green Lantern. That's two I wish could give more examples[...]

According to the film (now seen by how many thousands?), Static was created by Dwayne McDuffie, Robert Washington, and John Paul Leon. I have nothing but LOVE for what the filmmakers attempted to do, but those credits are just wrong. Dwayne McDuffie, Derek Dingle, Denys Cowan, Christopher Priest, & myself, created Static. John Paul & Robert Washington more[...]

Life lists some of the topics the guests discuss as: the origins of Milestone Media and its relationship with DC Comics, how Milestone was more than just "black or minority" comics, the number of industry heavyweights that came from Milestone and its affiliated studios, how Dwayne McDuffie gave Erica Well the opportunity to write an[...]

This looks like it could be Keron Grant's new cover to Static Shock #1. There was meant to be a new Static Shock series starting this Spring by Felicia

In this morning's Runaround, Bleeding Cool posted a tweet from Tommy Lee Edwards about turning down work on the just-soliocited Static Shock Special. DC is planning a Dwayne McDuffie "tribute" book, but has no plans to donate profits to the poor guy's surviving family or any charity… DC have now told Bleeding Cool; Before Dwayne McDuffie's tragic[...]

StaticWatch: Tommy Lee Edwards tweets; DC is planning a Dwayne McDuffie "tribute" book, but has no plans to donate profits to the poor guy's surviving family or any charity… He states that he was offered a job on the book but turned it down Edwards drew the Milestone book My Name Is Holocaust. HandbagWatch: Comic Book Resources (www.comicbookresources.com), the[...]

Dwayne McDuffie was intending to appear at the launch of the Reggiesworld.com website tonight from Reginald Hudlin at the Golden Apple comic store in LA, alongside McDuffie's creative partner Denys Cowan, Mike Benson, Adam Glass, Ziggy Marley, Rashida Jones and more. The event is still going ahead from 6pm PT, but at 8pm they will host[...]

He's never been away. Towards the end of the Lying In The Gutters column, I ran a collection of posts that Dwayne McDuffie had posted on the DC Comics message board over nine months, an honest, self depracatory, troubled look at his time on the JLA comic book And as a result of that honesty, DC[...]