GRAPHIC SAMURAI The Art of Denys Cowan Signed

This is a summation of the ongoing career of the historic comic book artist, featuring a book length interview with Denys along with brief interviews from his collaborators, crammed with hundreds of illustrations and photos. Cowan's first published comics work was a three-page story in Weird War Tales #93 (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, 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 (1989) with writer Sam Hamm, which introduced the character Henri Ducard. 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 Static Shock, an animated series based on Milestone character Static. As senior vice president of animation at BET, Cowan was responsible for the creation, development and production of animated programming for the entire network. This included the development and production of the premiere season of The Boondocks. Cowan drew the cover art of the GZA/Genius of the Wu-Tang Clan's album Liquid Swords. 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 San Diego Comic-Con in 2013.