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Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive He writes, On January 21st of this year, the Washington Post broke the story of the return of Milestone Media. The Milestone announcement has remained hot industry news Following the Post story, an onslaught of media attention both mainstream and industry swamped social media Now called Milestone[...]

The announcement of the return of Milestone Media was made with founders Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle and non-founder but president of BET, Reginald Hudlin. But without one of the founders and key operatives in the previous iteration of Milestone Media, Michael Davis Davis had been prominent in keeping the Milestone name alive, with panels, exhibition, museum exhibits[...]

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive He writes, No Respect No Wonder. I owe Hollywood an apology. For years I've been bitching about how badly Hollywood treats the comic book industry Comic book adaptations are the leading entertainment content in film, and likely that's about to happen in television Hollywood has never done anything[...]

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[...]

Illustration by Michael Davis from a Photo By Mike Siegel / Seattle Times Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive He writes, What I do from time to time is run the same articles on Bleeding Cool and Comicmix This happens when I think a subject is important enough This is one of those[...]

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive He writes, "What a GREAT movie!" said the daddy. "Fantastic!" replied the mommy. "No it wasn't!" stated the kid The kid was around 6 or 7, 8 years old at the outside She was not having any of mom and dad's mutual admiration society I, being me, bust[...]

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive He writes, If you haven't read Part One, please do that before reading this. As mentioned last week, Bad Boy Studios, my mentor program, has produced scores of ready-for-primetime playas The focus has always been young people of color, but the program has produced many blue-eyed soul[...]

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive He writes, Part One Haters, just stop reading now, because you'll simply skip the advice and jump right to how it's all about me. I'm a King Maker. I told you to just stop reading, I'm just getting started Now where was I? Me? I'm a King Maker. I find and[...]

Michael Davis writes, I'm from New York. I'm a New Yorker who has lived the last 20 years in Los Angeles or LA, as it's commonly called LA is where my life is now; driven here quite literally by an offer I couldn't refuse. Despite the often-racist policies of City Hall and it's Choke-An-Unarmed-Black-Man-to-Death police force, NYC will[...]

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive 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[...]

Michael Davis writes, I'm so happy I can hardly breath! Static Shock! The character created by Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle, Christopher Priest, Dwayne McDuffie and myself is on its way the big screen!! Soon and I mean VERY SOON, Virgil, Richie and Sharon will be given their long overdo due on the big screen! I'm ecstatic, delighted, and[...]

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive He writes, I admit I'm a bit of a girly man. Most of my friends are women Women raised me, I collect Barbies, and my favorite movie is My Best Friend's Wedding I tend to see things from a woman's point of view, and I'm convinced in[...]

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive He writes, Damn, it's 1963 all over again in Missouri. The police are using tear gas and billy clubs to control a group of peaceful protesters All that's missing is German Shepherds and fire hoses, but hey, rubber bullets more than make up for that. Someone once asked[...]

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 host and creator of the panel, Michael Davis, who constantly uses self deprecation,[...]

Every day, I learned pearls of wisdom from Derek Dingle, Michael Davis, Denys Cowan, and Dwayne McDuffie Eventually, I decided I wanted to become an editor I spoke with the founders, they supported the move, and I shifted gears I became an Assistant Editor Dwayne taught me a great deal about editing, as did Denny[...]

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive He writes, The response from those with Milestone Questions has been incredible and deserves to be answered as soon as possible Doing so in the confines of my weekly rants every son often is simply not fair to those who asked and those who want to[...]

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive 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[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. In addition to my work here, I also write a weekly column for Comicmix. Excluding a brief truancy, I've written for them for the better[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. Sorry for the long delay. Within the last six weeks, a seemingly never-ending series of calamities, each far worse than the previous, have rained down[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. Part One: Since I've been writing for Bleeding Cool, a recurring theme in the comments is Milestone Regardless of whether the article mentions Milestone[...]

You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being." ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. Jack Kirby had nothing to do with the creation of the Marvel Universe He drew some comics, but that's pretty much all he[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool This is part three of a three part series To many fans of the great American pastime, there was nothing more offensive than[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist 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[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. In 1956 the two-year old Comics Code Authority (CCA) tried its best to stop EC Comics from publishing a particularly offensive comic book[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. When you're a black kid growing up in the inner city, many things can spoil your day That's true of white kids growing[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. "Why don't you respond to your critics on Bleeding Cool?" I've heard that from more than a few people. Truth is, I see no reason[...]

You can guess which Milestone's Michael Davis thinks it is. Here's a list and images of the missing work Pressure on UPS will also be coming from the museum's owner Steve Geppi, the President of Diamond Comic Distributors, a very large customer of UPS'. Batman Ultimate Evil #1 Cover Denys Cowan & Kent Williams 11" x 17" Pen and[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. I'm not being lazy but this article ran on Comicmix two days ago, Tuesday Dec 17 It's important enough to run on Bleeding Cool[...]

Michael Davis writes; In 1993, Denys Cowan, Dwayne McDuffie, Derek T Dingle, Christopher Priest, and I founded Milestone Media. Milestone was a worldwide phenomenon when it launched, and it sold millions. Our groundbreaking arrangement with DC Comics, the largest joint venture deal ever done in comics, is still the gold standard for independent publishers seeking distribution with a[...]