Denys Cowan

Denys Cowan
Born Denys Cowan
January 30, 1960[1]
Nationality American
Area(s) Penciller, Inker

Denys B. Cowan (born January 30, 1960)[1] is an American comic book artist and television producer.

Career

Denys Cowan is a graduate of the High School of Art and Design in New York City.[2] His first published comics work was a three-page story in Weird War Tales #93 (Nov. 1980) for DC Comics.[3] He 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.[4] His other comics credits include the Batman story arc Blind Justice in Detective Comics #598-600 (March–May 1989) with writer Sam Hamm,[5][6] 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.

In 1993, Cowan was one of the founders of Milestone Media,[7] and later worked as a producer on the animated series Static Shock, based on the Milestone character.[8] 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.[9]

Awards

Cowan and inker Rick Magyar were nominated for an Eisner Award as "Best Art Team" in both 1988[10] and 1989[11] for their work on The Question.

Bibliography

An example of Cowan's artwork: The Question #34 (January 1990); DC Comics.

Regular penciller

Fill-in penciller

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010.
  2. ↑ Bails, Jerry (2006). "Cowan, Denys". Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999. Archived from the original on April 1, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Denys Cowan at the Grand Comics Database
  4. ↑ Manning, Matthew K.; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1980s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. Formerly part of the Charlton Comics line, the Question carved his mysterious niche into the DC Universe with the help of writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Denys Cowan.
  5. ↑ Mangels, Andy (April 1989). "I Was a Teen-Age Comics Artist". Amazing Heroes (Fantagraphics Books) (163). Archived from the original on February 20, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
  6. ↑ Greenberger, Robert; Manning, Matthew K. (2009). The Batman Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book with Rare Collectibles from the Batcave. Running Press. p. 41. ISBN 0-7624-3663-8. In the pages of Detective Comics, Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm took advantage of that year's ongoing writers' strike to write a three-issue story entitled "Blind Justice", which culminated in that title's 600th issue.
  7. ↑ Daniels, Les (1995). DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes. Bulfinch. p. 232. ISBN 0821220764. The Milestone principals include writer-editor Dwayne McDuffie, artist and creative director Denys Cowan and president Derek Dingle; a fourth partner, Michael Davis, quickly dropped out to run Motown Animation.
  8. ↑ "Denys Cowan". Lambiek Comiclopedia. May 9, 2008. Archived from the original on October 13, 2012.
  9. ↑ Weiss, Jeff (March 26, 2008). "GZA's Liquid Swords of Truth". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on April 8, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2013. the GZA tapped famed DC Comics artist Denys Cowan to hand-draw the album cover — cloaked ninjas in Wu insignias slaughtering people across a chessboard — and Cowan directed and co-wrote each of the album’s four indelible videos.
  10. ↑ "1988 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees". HahnLibrary.net. Archived from the original on July 23, 2012.
  11. ↑ "1989 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees". HahnLibrary.net. Archived from the original on July 23, 2012.
  12. ↑ List of DC Comics containing the Flash Force 2000 insert at the Grand Comics Database

External links

Preceded by
Kerry Gammill		 Power Man and Iron Fist penciller
1982–1983 		Succeeded by
Ernie Chan
Preceded by
Dan Reed
(in 1981)		 The Question penciller
1987–1992 		Succeeded by
Rick Burchett
(in 1995)
Preceded by
n/a		 Doctor Zero penciller
1988 		Succeeded by
Dan Spiegle
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Jerry Bingham
(in 1980)		 Black Panther penciller
1988 		Succeeded by
Gene Colan
(in 1989)
Preceded by
Eduardo Barreto		 Detective Comics penciller
1989 		Succeeded by
Norm Breyfogle
Preceded by
Jackson Guice		 Deathlok penciller
1990–1992 		Succeeded by
Walter McDaniel
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n/a		 Hardware penciller
1993–1994 		Succeeded by
Humberto Ramos
Preceded by
Jim Aparo		 Steel penciller
1997–1998 		Succeeded by
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