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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[...]

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 This week, his essay on the late John Paul Leon ran in Batman/Catwoman Special #1, by[...]

The book will also have essays, by Batman: Creature Of The Night collaborator Kurt Busiek, and his former mentor, and the man who hired him for the first issue of Static, Bleeding Cool contributor Michael Davis This also marks Michael's first published work from DC Comics in decades. John Paul Leon Batman Catwoman Special The BATMAN/CATWOMAN series[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported the tragically hilarious story that Michael Davis, one of the co-founders of Milestone Media, and the man who used to run the DC Comics New Talent programme, spinning it off into his own studio Bad Boy, has resorted to applying to DC Comics' new Milestone Initiative at DC Fandome to serve[...]

Michael Davis was one of the co-founders of Milestone Media, and used his own life story when creating the background and bible for their most successful character, Static He ran a mentorship programme through his production studio Bad Boys, which he used to help find talent for Milestone, including the late John Paul Leon, whose[...]

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 his friend and student, John Paul Leon. John Paul Leon was part of[...]

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 Month,[...]

I wonder if they have gotten in touch with Michael Davis yet? Back in August, as part of DC Fandome, DC Comics announced that they would be relaunching the Milestone Media publisher line, after many delays in February 2021, for Black History Month A few of us were looking at our watches this month wondering[...]

Michael Davis was a co-founder of Milestone Media, and the co-creator of Static/Static Shock A comics writer, artist, publisher and producer, he launched Motown Machine Works, was president/CEO of Motown Animation & Filmworks, and was President of Animation for Magic Johnson Entertainment He also created The Guardian line of comic books, selling through black churches[...]

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[...]

For a start, it was the first time any of the announcements had mentioned that Bleeding Cool contributor Michael Davis was one of the founders of Milestone, and indeed the account given had him at the very beginning As Michael Davies was not invited to take part in the relaunch of the diverse superhero comic[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics In the recently announced and unannounced relaunch of Milestone Comics, he was conspicuously absent, despite being the individual who had done most in the decades since the original publication to keep the idea DNA the name of Milestone alive, with the Milestones gallery exhibitions, the Black Panel[...]

Well, they mentioned Michael Davis up top as one of the cofounders of Milestone Comics, with Denys Cowan, Derek T Dingle, and Dwayne McDuffie talking about it at San Diego Comic-Con in 1992 Today at the DC Fandome event, as we expected, DC Comcis  re-announced the return of Milestone to comic books.   Return Of Milestone Comics Announced[...]

And if it's one of the surprise panels, that should include the confirmation of actual books, creators and a publishing schedule. Return Of Milestone Comics Announced (Again) at DC Fandome   Milestone Comics was a comics publisher founded by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis, and Derek T Dingle in 1993 that published through DC Comics and specialised[...]

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[...]

Keep up with your Daily LITG. From Barack Obama to Michael Davis, The Daily LITG, April 30th 2020 Image from Marvel. How Barack Obama Wrote a Batman Comic With Jim Lee, on Sale at Walmart My Hero Academia Yaoyorozu Gets Her Own Statue from Bellfine Marie Javins – The Saviour Of DC Comics Right Now Back to the Future II[...]

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[...]

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 (hopefully[...]

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 ever[...]

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 began with[...]

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 that[...]

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, from Reggie Hudlin, and original Milestone co-founders Denys Cowan, and Derek Dingle (but not Michael Davis) The lawsuit stated that despite the revival's genesis taking place at his wake, the new group[...]

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 place[...]

Tomorrow at San Diego Comic-Con, the very-much-alive and occasional Bleeding Cool contributor Michael Davis will be hosting his long-running Black Panel in its regular slot at San Diego Comic-Con. Guests this year cross the comics industry, and include Diamond Comic Distributor CEO and owner Steve Geppi, the original Black Panther ongoing writer, Don McGregor, comedian Wayne[...]

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 ago[...]

It was even weirder for Michael Davis Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories read yesterday: Michael Davis is Not Dead, He is Alive and Well – But Hacked Michael Davis, Founder of Milestone and Co-Creator of Static Shock, Has Died 'Game of Thrones'[...]

Comic book creator and publisher, Michael Davis is alive and well and speaking from his home His e-mail, phone and social media have all hacked and used by persons unknown to impersonate his caring family, stating that Davis had taken his own life, and then sharing his personal photos and videos Michael Davis was able[...]

Today Michael Davis woke up to just that. Comic book writer, artist, editor, publisher, mentor, archivist, curator as well as media executive, co-founder or Milestone, co-creator of Static Shock, CEO of Motown Animation, host and creator of the Black Panel and so much more, Michael Davis has had his online identity thoroughly and comprehensively hacked[...]