Nationality American Area(s) Penciller, Inker | Name Denys Cowan Role Comics artist | |
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Born Denys Cowan January 30, 1961 (age 64) ( 1960-01-30 ) Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Similar People | ||
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Denys B. Cowan (born January 30, 1961) is an American comics artist and television producer and was one of the co-founders of Milestone Media.
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Career
Denys Cowan is a graduate of the High School of Art and Design in New York City. His first published comics work was a three-page story in Weird War Tales #93 (Nov. 1980) for DC Comics. He was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986. Cowan gained prominence as the primary artist on The Question, a comic book series written by Dennis O'Neil and published by DC beginning in February 1987. His other comics credits include the Batman story arc "Blind Justice" in Detective Comics #598–600 (March–May 1989) with writer Sam Hamm, which introduced the character Henri Ducard later revised as a character for the movie Batman Begins. Cowan was the penciller on the latter half of the 1990 Deathlok miniseries, published by Marvel Comics, which was written by Dwayne McDuffie and Gregory Wright as well as on the subsequent regular title of the same name.
Cowan and writer Dwayne McDuffie collaborated on a Prince comic book in 1991. Cowan co-founded Milestone Media in 1993 with McDuffie, Michael Davis, and Derek Dingle, and later worked as a producer on the animated series Static Shock, based on the Milestone character. He has been a producer of the television series The Boondocks and executive producer of the planned animated Black Panther series. He later became senior vice president of animation for Black Entertainment Television (BET). Cowan drew the cover art of the GZA/Genius of the Wu-Tang Clan's platinum-selling hip-hop album Liquid Swords.
Awards
Cowan and inker Rick Magyar were nominated for an Eisner Award as "Best Art Team" in both 1988 and 1989 for their work on The Question.
Cowan received an Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic-Con International in 2013.
