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Dwayne McDuffie has passed.

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Don't know if this was posted already because I did not see it.

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A great comics writer who never really got his just due from this industry. I just know he brought a lot of enjoyment to me and mine over the years.

R.I.P. brother
 
I know that this isn't the best place for a Eulogy, but Dwayne McDuffie was a personal hero. The man was as important to minority comic fans as Stan Lee is to regular comic kids.

I had real love for this dude. This is a loss to anyone that ever truly loved comics.
 
I actually had the honor of exchanging e-mails with this gentleman a few years ago, when I wanted writing advance and he sent me a signed Milestone comic.

I am shocked and deeply saddened.

We will be poorer with him gone.
 
R.I.P. One of the things I liked the most about his writing is that he didn't talk down to his audience...
 
Damn. :smh:

One of my favorite writers.

I loved his work on Deathlok, Static, JL and Ben 10 immensely.

49 years young and the day after his birthday he moves on to another world. :(
 
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http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/01/17/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-138/
 
Dwayne McDuffie was practically the black Stan Lee. He will always be one of my favorite heroes. He made it in a very tough industry, and he didn't have to sell out his people's image to do it.

He will be sorely missed.

R.I.P.

http://t.co/mShp2Yc
 
Damn I'm just now finding out about this! Been away from the site for a minute and a half. It's a shame someone with such passion and creativity has moved on without much fanfare, especially since he and his comrades represented a community sorely lacking in this medium. Rest in peace Brotha McDuffe.

In tribute I'd like to pass on these titles. (Links at the bottom)

Enjoy




Dwayne Glenn McDuffie(February 20, 1962 – February 21, 2011) was an African-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 co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic-book company Milestone Media.

Dwayne McDuffie was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Edna McDuffie Gardner. He attended The Roeper School and went on to the University of Michigan, 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.

He co-hosted a radio comedy program, and also wrote under a pseudonym for stand-up comedians and late-night television comedy programs.[citation needed] 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.

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." 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_McDuffie


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Milestone - the Dakota Universe​

Milestone was a comic book company owned by African-Americans, with titles whose characters belonged to ethnic minorities. Created in 1992 by prominent comic writer Dwayne McDuffie, artist Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle, who had worked on a number of business publications such as the Wall Street Journal, and Michael Davis (who left soon after the company was born), the Milestone line was launched a year later and distributed through a deal with DC Comics.

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/mileston.htm

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http://dwaynemcduffie.com/wordpress/?p=847
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milestone_Media


TITLES
Blood Syndicate 1-35
Deathwish 1-4
Hardware 1-50
Heroes 1-6
Icon 1-42
Kobalt 1-16
Long Hot Summer 1-3
My Name is Holocaust 1-5
Shadow Cabinet 00-17
Static 1-45
Static Shock: Rebirth Of The Cool 1-4
Wise Son 1-4
Worlds Collide (DC vs Milestone) 1-14
Xombi 00-21

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NnubianN said:
Damn I'm just now finding out about this! Been away from the site for a minute and a half. It's a shame someone with such passion and creativity has moved on without much fanfare, especially since he and his comrades represented a community sorely lacking in this medium. Rest in peace Brotha McDuffe.

In tribute I'd like to pass on these titles. (Links at the bottom)
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thanks, much appreciated
 
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