1. Dwayne Glenn McDuffie was an American writer of comic books and television.
19 Facts About Dwayne McDuffie
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Dwayne McDuffie was best known for co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic book company Milestone Media, which focused on underrepresented minorities in American comics, creating and co-creating characters such as Icon, Rocket, Static, and Hardware.
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Dwayne McDuffie earned three Eisner Award nominations for his work in comics.
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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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In 1983, Dwayne McDuffie graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan, followed by a master's degree in physics.
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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 a writer, producer, and editor for the Ben 10 series Alien Force and Ultimate Alien.
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Dwayne McDuffie's final writing credit was the Omniverse pilot episode "The More Things Change", which released in 2012.
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Dwayne McDuffie wrote a number of direct-to-DVD animated films featuring DC Comics characters, including Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and Justice League: Doom.
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Dwayne McDuffie scripted the film adaptation of All-Star Superman, which 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 the 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 television writer Charlotte Fullerton in 2009.
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Dwayne McDuffie wrote Milestone Forever, a two-issue miniseries chronicling the final adventures of his Milestone characters before they are transported to 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".