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UPDATE: This morning it was announced that Michael Davis had died This is not true The original article runs below, you can read what happened over here Just know this, Michael Davis is alive and well and I could not be happier. Will great sadness, we have to inform you that Michael Davis, co-founder of Milestone[...]

In Shops: Jan 30, 2019 SRP: $7.99 Someone who is a little annoyed is Milestone co-creator, Bleeding Cool contributor, publisher, editor, creator and mentor Michael Davis (Phd) He has shared a number of e-mails with Bleeding Cool, regarding a planned project for DC Comics called Black Reign: The Secret History of DC Comics Black Superheroes, also known[...]

Michael Finn writes, Hi, I’m Michael Finn and I want to tell you about my Kickstarter in which the super-heroes of the 1940s return in a brand-new, 100+

Michael Davis is the Keynote speaker at Afro ComicCon tomorrow at SAE Expression College located in Emeryville, California. His speech is reportedly entitled NOW YOU CAN'T LEAVE: Level Next & The War For Static Shock. Level Next is the media-and-comics company he formed with Wayne Brady Static Shock refers to the Static character he co-created for Milestone, that used his[...]

Michael Davis writes: Back in the day 434 Beach 58st apt 8B Far Rockaway: My mother lay on the floor bleeding from a gash in her head. My sister Sharon all of 12 years old tears streaming from her eyes hands covering her mouth trying to mute the sobs she couldn't help making was bent over listening[...]

Michael Davis, co-founder of Milestone Comics, writer, producer, artist and mentor writes: Prologue: The Golden Age Myth My views of the industry are my personal opinion; however, any event I share regarding treatment of me is 100% true, and I can provide documentation for any person or company disputing my accounts. They won't. There was a time when the[...]

Snodgrass talked about how Wein loved musicals and would sometime burst into song, but he had a terrible voice. This led Michael Davis (Co-Founder of Milestone Comics), who was in the audience, shared a story of driving through Oakland with Wein, Marv Wolfman, and Harlan Ellison, in his car and playing his West Side Story CD[...]

At last year's Black Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Wayne Brady and Michael Davis announced a new planned comic book and multi-media line, Level Next With a stated aim to create stories by – and for – people of colour Comics, books, TV shows, movies, games, whatever is out there And the foundation is there to help people[...]

Kane calls it "the greatest picture of that era of musicians ever taken." At San Diego Comic-Con this year, comic creator and mentor Michael Davis, behind the Black Panel that runs every year at the show, brought together members and a few attendees of that panel for a photograph — pulling the 'Wakanda Forever' pose. A Great[...]

It has a weekly readership of 200,000, aiming to provide broad base relevant coverage including local, state, and national political and community news. And they've just cover featured a very familiar face. Just in time for last Friday's Black Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Bleeding Cool contributor Michael Davis made the cover, like this. The article covered his career co-founding[...]

Words courtesy of Bleeding Cool's Janel Smith: This being my third consecutive year covering The Black Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, I thought I knew what to expect and to an extent I did, but as usual Michael Davis found a way to surprise me and make me think   First things first the panelists were: Joe Illidge[...]

Michael Davis wrote the following in 2014 We publish it now on the eve of San Diego Comic-Con, in memory of the late Harlan Ellison. Michael Davis, comic book creator, mentor, and publisher wrote: I've been told to take it easy for a while, so except for posting my articles, I'm staying off Facebook, not watching the[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool re-ran Michael Davis' essay from 2014 about Harlan Ellison, after his passing.  Michael Davis, comic book creator, mentor, and publisher writes: Note: I wrote the above in 2014 What's below took me two weeks as I've been battling depression blah blah blah blah poor me etc. Twenty minutes after I first met Harlan Ellison he[...]

DC is pulling out all the stops to promote Brian Michael Bendis's Superman comics. DC is even set to advertise the Superman titles on TV.

Brian Bendis may have taken over the Superman comic books (much to the annoyance of the likes of Dan Jurgens, Pete Tomasi and Patrick Gleason who had

The final Mark Waid issues of Captain America before it gets relaunched have had a number of surprise artists added to the creative teams on his way out.

On Saturday, Bleeding Cool ran an open letter by San Francisco comic book retailer Brian Hibbs criticising Marvel over the 99 cent deal for newly released collections and original graphic novels from ComiXology and Amazon. Well, another retailer has his own open letter. To Brian Hibbs.

Michael Davis, comic book creator, mentor, and publisher writes: The Trouble with Black Comics! That's the real title, just in case some white editor looking to cheapen this narrative with clickbait changes the name of the title to The Trouble with Black People. That's a joke. It may not be you, but you know someone isn't going to get[...]

Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary II is out now, re-imagining four of English ghost story master M.R. James's most compelling stories in graphic form

Bleeding Cool Rumormonger-in-Chief Rich Johnston may have a problem with the art in Marvel's Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, but comics legend and Garfield

Janel Smith writes for Bleeding Cool: Covering Michael Davis' panel at San Diego Comic-Con. Though the panel got off to a rocky start, it was full of powerful emotions that I think many in the room could relate to.  It is not often that I see a black man so open and honest about his emotions and[...]

As has just been announced at the famously packed The Black Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Wayne Brady(not the actor,) and Michael Davis are starting a publisher called Level Next – and, with the help of Don Johnson (not the actor) a foundation called the Level Next Foundation. The aim of  Level Next is to create stories by[...]

DC has announced a new book in its rebooted Wildstorm universe coming in October. Wildstorm: Michael Cray will expand on Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt's

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone He writes, This article processes some hard truths many won't like. The first part of this narrative Milestone is dead got a lot of people talking. Nothing and I mean nothing in that article was new I've written about what and why I thought the[...]

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone He writes, 1993 More than 20 years ago my swagger caused a rift between DC Comics and myself and that caused problems between DC and Milestone. The pressure was put on Milestone to silence me Silence me from what you ask? Calling DC Comics on[...]

Michael Davis, writer, editor, publisher, mentor, co-founder and co-creator of Milestone Comics writes, Fair warning: little in this article has a thing to do with pop culture So, if your intention is to bitch about that after reading this let me do it for you: Clueless Cow writes: Why is this in Bleeding Cool? Rich, can't you get[...]

Michael Davis, comic creator, editor, publisher and mentor, writes, When I was eight years old, I was racing my new Tonka toy truck up and down the concrete sidewalk on my block I was doing so by bending over and pushing the truck as fast as I could with both hands. The truck slipped out of my[...]

Michael Davis writes for Bleeding Cool, This past weekend a giant of entertainment left us Chuck Berry was 90 years old, and I must admit I would from time to time wonder if Little Richard, Chubby Checker or Chuck were still with us. I've not only had the pleasure of meeting each of these legends I spent[...]

Michael Davis writes Jack Kirby created the Black Racer, and his bedridden alter ego Sgt Willie Walker in 1971 In the origin story Walker, an African American is paralyzed during a firefight in Vietnam The army returns the young hero home where his wife resigns herself to taking care of him. The 'Source' Kirby's mysterious power entity[...]

Michael Davis writes, From the last installment: The Los Angeles neighborhood of Westwood is home to The University of Southern California better known as U.C.L.A It's a trendy area filled with upscale shops and expensive restaurants I've never been a fan of Westwood U.C.L.A or trendy, expensive restaurants I doubt if I ever will be[...]