{"id":155,"date":"2020-02-24T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/?p=155"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:43:45","slug":"feb-16-dwayne-mcduffie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Feb 16: Dwayne McDuffie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jude Ngangsic-Asongu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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image source: wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His \u201ctheory\u201d was that lack of proper minority representation in comic books and comic book media and took \u201caction\u201d by cofounding Milestone Media. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Dwayne McDuffie was born February 20, 1962, in Detroit, Michigan and was a comic book and TV show writer. After graduating from college, he moved to New York and eventually got a job at Marvel comics. He noticed a lack of black and minority characters at the time and didn\u2019t like that most of them didn\u2019t get to have their own books and were usually just the sidekick to white characters. In order to fix that, he and 3 other men founded Milestone Media, a comic book company that released books starting minority characters. Eventually, Milestone Media was brought by DC and that led to Dwayne being able to create and write for the TV show \u201cStatic Shock\u201dwhich had Vergil Hawkins, a black teenager, as the main character. He was even able to become a writer for other popular shows like \u201cJustice League Unlimited\u201d and comic books like \u201cJustice League of America\u201d. Throughout his career, he won or was nominated for multiple writing awards for his work. He died on February 21, 2011. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that Dwayne McDuffie was important because of his for minority representation in comic books while also being a good writer. His \u201ctheory\u201d was that lack of proper minority representation in comic books and comic book media and took \u201caction\u201d by cofounding Milestone Media. Not all of his stories were perfect, but Dwayne was a good writer and creator and didn\u2019t limit himself to just stories starring black people. He also knew that equality is important as well and didn\u2019t try to add an agenda where it didn\u2019t belong. While \u201cStatic Shock\u201d had episodes about racism and gang violence, \u201cBen 10\u201d and \u201cJustice League\u201d had mostly white casts, but he wrote good stories for them and didn\u2019t try to shoehorn a black character that would miraculously save the day out of nowhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Watchtower Database. (2019, June 26). Black Heroes Matter – Diversity in the DCAU | Watchtower Database [Video file]. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bYcA5hhVyUg <\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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