Dwayne McDuffie Award

Highlights From Long Beach Comic Expo: Comic Creators, Animation And Cosplay

By Jason Strangis The Long Beach Comic Expo might have been relatively small in size but it packed a big punch last weekend. An impressive list of writers and artists headlined the event with the likes of legendary X-Men scribe Chris Claremont, longtime Marvel writer Gerry Conway, and fan favorite artists Terry and Rachel Dodson […]

Shaft, Ms. Marvel And The Shadow Hero Among Finalists For Dwayne McDuffie Award

The nominees for the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity have been chosen The award, named after writer Dwayne McDuffie the co-founder of Milestone Media, writer for both Marvel and DC as well as writer and producer of many animated series.The five nominated titles and creators are: Hex11 by Lisa K Weber and Kelly Sue Milano, M.F.K[...]

Long Beach Comic Expo Adds GeekFest Film Fest & Costume Contest to Line Up

We survey our attendees at every show and ask them if there's anything they'd like us to add, so we may have other new programs that come out of that process.MB: What’s new for this year’s expo that attendees will not want to miss?MD: We’re building on our terrific slate of animation panels and creating[...]

Long Beach Comic Con Programming Brought Out Diversity, Writing Tips, Key Anniversaries, And Creating Dynamic Female Characters In Comics

Over the course of the con, held the last weekend of September at the Long Beach Convention Center, I had picked out a handful of seminars to attend.The Dwayne McDuffie AwardMy Saturday morning started out by attending the LBCC’s announcement for the first annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity Phil LaMarr (Static Shock!) had the[...]