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Dwayne McDuffie
Born Detroit, Michigan, US
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer, Editor
Notable works Damage Control
Static
Beyond!
Fantastic Four
Official website

Dwayne McDuffie is an American writer of comic books and television. His notable works include creating the animated series Static Shock, writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited, and co-founding the comic book company Milestone Media.

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Biography

McDuffie was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and attended Roeper School. He attended the University of Michigan, [1] studying physics [2], then moved to New York to attend film school at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

In New York, he co-hosted a radio comedy program, and also wrote under a pseudonym for stand-up comedians and late-night television comedy programs. While working as a copy-editor for a financial magazine, a friend got him an interview for an assistant editor position at Marvel Comics.

Comic books

While on staff at Marvel as Bob Budiansky's assistant on special projects,[3] McDuffie also scripted stories for the company. His first major work was Damage Control, a series about the company that shows up between issues and tidies up the mess left by the latest round of superhero/supervillain battles. While an editor at Marvel, he submitted a spoof proposal for a comic entitled Teenage Negro Ninja Thrasher in response to marvel's treatment of it's black characters [4]. He Becoming a freelancer in early 1990, McDuffie followed that with dozens of various comics titles for Marvel comics, DC Comics, and Archie Comics. 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.[citation needed]

Milestone Media

In 1992, wanting to express a multi-cultural sensibility that he felt was missing in comic books, McDuffie co-founded Milestone Media, a comic book company owned by African-Americans. McDuffie explained:

“ If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had to present a range of characters within each ethnic group, which means that we couldn't do just one book. We had to do a series of books and we had to present a view of the world that's wider than the world we've seen before.[5] ”

Milestone debuted its titles in 1993 through a publishing deal with DC Comics. Serving as editor-in-chief, McDuffie created or co-created many characters, including Static.

Television

After Milestone had ceased publishing new comics, Static was developed into an animated series Static Shock. McDuffie was hired to write and story-edit on the series, writing eleven episodes.

His other television writing credits included Teen Titans and What's New, Scooby-Doo?.

Justice League / Justice League Unlimited

McDuffie was hired to write for the animated series Justice League. He was soon promoted to story editor and producer as the series became Justice League Unlimited. During the entire run of the animated series, McDuffie wrote, produced, or story-edited 69 out of the 91 episodes.

McDuffie also wrote the story for the video game Justice League Heroes.

Ben 10: Alien Force / Ben 10: Evolution

McDuffie was hired to help revamp and story-edit Cartoon Network's popular animated Ben 10 franchise with Ben 10: Alien Force, continuing the adventures of the 10 year old title character into his teenage years. During the run of the series, McDuffie wrote and/or story-edited all 46 episodes. McDuffie is currently story editing a second sequel series Ben 10: Evolution, scheduled to premiere in 2010.

Return to Comics

After his popular work in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, McDuffie returned to writing comic books. He wrote the Marvel mini-series Beyond!, a pseudo-sequel to Secret Wars.

In 2007, McDuffie wrote several issues of Firestorm for DC Comics, starting in January through to its cancellation. Later that year, he started a regular writing duty on Fantastic Four with issue 542,[6] as well as Justice League following Brad Meltzer's run, with issue 13. He was later fired from Justice League following a Lying in the Gutters compilation of his frank answers to fans about the creative process.[7]

Recent work

Until very recently, McDuffie wrote the Justice League of America for DC Comics, including the re-introduction of the Milestone characters in the DC Universe.

The Dwayne McDuffie Forums

Since 1997 McDuffie hosts in his Official website the Dwayne McDuffie Forums, which feature threads revolving around his works and their related and diverse fields. The longest thread is Ask The Maestro (that's Dwayne), in which he may answer any question as long as he's not legally bound to do otherwise.

Awards

In 2003, McDuffie and co-writer Alan Burnett were awarded the Humanitas Prize in Children's Animation for the "Jimmy" episode of Static Shock. In both 2003 and 2004 he 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.

Filmography

Bibliography

Regular writer

Fill-in writer

Editor

  • Freddy Kreuger's A Nightmare on Elm Street #1-2 (Marvel Comics, October 1989-November 1989)
  • Blood Syndicate #1-30 (DC Comics [Milestone], April 1993-September 1995)
  • Hardware #1-10 (DC Comics [Milestone], April 1993-December 1993)
  • Icon #1-8 (DC Comics [Milestone], May 1993-December 1993)
  • Static #1-28 (DC Comics [Milestone], June 1993-October 1995)
  • Static #30 (DC Comics [Milestone], December 1995)
  • Shadow Cabinet #0 (DC Comics [Milestone], January 1994)
  • Xombi #0 (DC Comics [Milestone], January 1994)
  • Frank #1-2 (Harvey Comics, March 1994-May 1994) - (limited series)
  • "The Call." Superman: The Man of Steel #34 (DC Comics, June 1994) - (Kobalt preview)
  • Kobalt #1-10 (DC Comics [Milestone], June 1994-March 1995)
  • Shadow Cabinet #1-17 (DC Comics [Milestone], June 1994-October 1995)
  • Xombi #1-16 (DC Comics [Milestone], June 1994-September 1995)
  • Worlds Collide #1 (DC Comics [Milestone], July 1994) - (one-shot)
  • Deathwish #1-4 (DC Comics [Milestone], December 1994-March 1995) - (mini-series)
  • My Name is Holocaust #1 (DC Comics [Milestone], May 1995) - (mini-series)
  • Kobalt #14 (DC Comics [Milestone], August 1995)
  • Static Shock! Rebirth of the Cool #1-4 (DC Comics [Milestone], January 2001-September 2001)

Notes

  1. ^ Biography at official website
  2. ^ Firefox News Interview (Jan. 15, 2007). Accessed Nov. 2, 2008.
  3. ^ "Bullpen Bulletins," Marvel Comics cover-dated June 1990.
  4. ^ Cronin, Brian (2008-02-18). "Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #138". Comic Book Resources. http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/01/17/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-138/. Retrieved 2009-08-11. 
  5. ^ Milestone history at McDuffie's official site.
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ Dwayne McDuffie fired from Justice League, Robot 6, Comic Book Resources, May 28, 2009

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External links

Interviews

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Preceded by
Danny Fingeroth		 Iron Man writer
1989–1990		 Succeeded by
John Byrne
Preceded by
None		 Deathlok writer
1990–1992		 Succeeded by
Gregory Wright
Preceded by
None		 Blood Syndicate writer/editor
1993 (writer)
(editor)		 Succeeded by
Ivan Velez Jr. (writer)
Matt Wayne (editor)
Preceded by
None		 Hardware writer/editor
1993–1994 (writer)
1993 (editor)		 Succeeded by
Adam Blaustein (writer)
Matt Wayne (editor)
Preceded by
None		 Icon writer
1993–1997		 Succeeded by
None
Preceded by
None		 Static writer/editor
1993 (writer)
(editor)		 Succeeded by
Robert L. Washington III (writer)
Jacqueline Ching (editor)
Preceded by
None		 Shadow Cabinet writer/editor
1994
(with Robert L. Washington III) (writer)
(editor)		 Succeeded by
Robert L. Washington III (writer)
None (editor)
Preceded by
None		 Xombi writer/editor
1994 (writer)
(editor)		 Succeeded by
John Rozum (writer)
Jacqueline Ching (editor)
Preceded by
Adam Blaustein & Yves Fezzani		 Hardware writer
1995		 Succeeded by
John Rozum
Preceded by
Brian Augustyn		 X-O Manowar (vol 2) writer
1998		 Succeeded by
None
Preceded by
Mark D. Bright (writer)
Matt Wayne (editor)
(in 1997)		 Static Shock! Rebirth of the Cool writer/editor
2001		 Succeeded by
None
Preceded by
Mike Baron		 Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight writer
2002		 Succeeded by
John Ostrander
Preceded by
John Arcudi		 Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight writer
2003		 Succeeded by
Tom Peyer
Preceded by
Stuart Moore		 Firestorm writer
2007		 Succeeded by
N/A
Preceded by
J. Michael Straczynski		 Fantastic Four writer
2007-2008		 Succeeded by
Mark Millar
Preceded by
Brad Meltzer		 Justice League of America writer
2007—2009		 Succeeded by
Len Wein
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Milestone Media
Founders
Dwayne McDuffie • Denys Cowan
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