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Dwayne McDuffie : biography

February 20, 1963 – February 21, 2011

Dwayne Glenn McDuffie (February 20, 1962February 21, 2011) was an American writer of comic books and television, known for creating the animated television series Static Shock, writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited and Ben 10, and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic-book company Milestone Media.

McDuffie earned three Eisner Award nominations for his work in comics.Moore, Matt (2011-02-23). , USA Today

Filmography

  • Justice League: Doom (2012)
  • All-Star Superman (2011)
  • Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)
  • Ben 10: Alien Force (2008–2010)
  • Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (2010–2011)
  • Justice League (2002–2006)
  • Static Shock (2000–2004)
  • Teen Titans (2004)
  • What’s New, Scooby-Doo? (2002)

Awards

  • In 1996, McDuffie won the Golden Apple Award from his alma mater the Roeper School for the "use of popular art to promote and advance human worth and dignity."
  • In 2003, McDuffie and co-writer Alan Burnett were awarded the Humanitas Prize in Children’s Animation for the "Jimmy" episode of Static Shock, about gun violence.
  • In both 2003 and 2004, McDuffie was nominated, with other Static Shock creators, for daytime Emmy awards.
  • In 2005, he was nominated for the Writers Guild of America award in animation, with Rich Fogel and John Ridley for the "Starcrossed" episode of Justice League.
  • In 2008, McDuffie was voted ‘Favorite Breakout Talent’ in the Wizard Fan Awards in Wizard Magazine.
  • In 2009, McDuffie won Comic Con International’s Inkpot Award.

Biography

Early life and career

Dwayne McDuffie was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Edna McDuffie Gardner.Fox, Margalit. , The New York Times, February 23, 2011. . Print edition February 24, 2011, p. B12. He attended The Roeper School and went on to the University of Michigan,, DwayneMcDuffie.com (official site). graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English, then earning a master’s degree in physics. He then moved to New York to attend film school at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. While McDuffie was working as a copy editor at the business magazine Investment Dealers’ Digest, a friend got him an interview for an assistant editor position at Marvel Comics.

Marvel and Milestone

Going on staff at Marvel as editor Bob Budiansky’s assistant on special projects,"Bullpen Bulletins," Marvel Comics cover-dated June 1990. McDuffie helped develop the company’s first superhero trading cards. He also scripted stories for Marvel. His first major work was Damage Control, a miniseries about the company that shows up between issues and tidies up the mess left by the latest round of superhero/supervillain battles.

After becoming an editor at Marvel, McDuffie submitted a spoof proposal for a comic entitled Ninja Thrashers in response to Marvel’s treatment of its black characters. Becoming a freelancer in 1990, McDuffie wrote for dozens of various comics titles for Marvel, DC Comics, and Archie Comics. In addition, he wrote Monster in My Pocket for Harvey Comics editor Sid Jacobson, whom he cites on his website as having taught him everything he knows. In early 1991, he divorced his first wife, Patricia D. Younger, in Seminole County, Florida., Orlando Sentinel, January 13, 1991. .

In the early 1990s, wanting to express a multicultural sensibility that he felt was missing in comic books, McDuffie and three partners founded Milestone Media, which The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, Ohio, described in 2000 as "the industry’s most successful minority-owned-and operated comic company."As quoted in Fox, The New York Times McDuffie explained:

Milestone, whose characters include the African-American Static, Icon, and Hardware; the Asian-American Xombi, and the multi-ethnic superhero group the Blood Syndicate, which include black, Asian and Latino men and women, debuted its titles in 1993 through a distribution deal with DC Comics. Serving as editor-in-chief, McDuffie created or co-created many characters, including Static.