Denys Cowan

Denys B. Cowan (born January 30, 1961) 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. His first published comics work was a three-page story in Weird War Tales #93 (Nov. 1980) for DC Comics. 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. 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.

In 1993, Cowan was one of the founders of Milestone Media, 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.