Dwayne Glenn McDuffie was an American writer of comic books and television, known for producing and writing the animated series Static Shock, Damage Control, Justice League Unlimited and Ben 10, and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic book company Milestone Media, which focused on underrepresented minorities in American comics.
14 Facts About Dwayne McDuffie
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Dwayne McDuffie attended and graduated from the Roeper School, a school for gifted children in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1980.
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Dwayne McDuffie then moved to New York to attend film school at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
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Dwayne McDuffie was hired to write and story-edit on the series, writing 11 episodes.
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Dwayne McDuffie was hired as a staff writer for the animated series Justice League and was promoted to story editor and producer as the series became Justice League Unlimited.
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Dwayne McDuffie wrote the story for the video game Justice League Heroes.
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Dwayne 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 ten-year-old title character into his mid and late teenage years.
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Dwayne McDuffie scripted the direct-to-DVD adaptation of All-Star Superman, which was released one day after his death.
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In 2007, Dwayne McDuffie wrote several issues of Firestorm for DC Comics, starting in January through to its cancellation.
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Dwayne McDuffie was fired from that series following a Lying in the Gutters compilation of his frank answers to fans about the creative process.
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Dwayne McDuffie married comic book and animation-TV writer Charlotte Fullerton in 2009.
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Dwayne McDuffie wrote Milestone Forever for DC Comics, a two-issue, squarebound miniseries chronicling the final adventures of his Milestone characters before a catastrophic event that fuses their continuity with the continuity of the DC Universe.
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On February 21,2011, one day after his 49th birthday, Dwayne McDuffie died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, of complications from emergency heart surgery.
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That same year, a diner named "Dwayne McDuffie's" was depicted in the Green Lantern: The Animated Series episode "The New Guy".