Private | |
Industry | Publishing |
Founded | 2004 |
Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois |
Key people | C. Jeffrey Wright, CEO Michael Davis, VP Creative Cherly Clemetson, VP Editorial Kathy Steward, Editor, Trudi Gentry, Brand Manager |
Products | comic books |
Website | TheGuardianLine.com |
The Guardian Line is a Christian comic book line published by UMI Media, a division of publishing and media firm Urban Ministries Inc. [1]
The line launched in December 2006 and was created by Michael Davis, co-founder of Milestone Media and the comic "Static!" Static was made into a WB cartoon called Static Shock. The four debut titles on the line are Code, Joe & Max, The Seekers and Genesis 5. The characters inhabit the Guardian Universe located in the fictional city of New Hope. The line is distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors and UMI.
Milestone Media was a company best known for creating Milestone Comics, which were published and distributed by DC Comics, and the Static Shock cartoon series. It was founded in 1993 by a coalition of African-American artists and writers, consisting of Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis, and Derek T. Dingle. The founders believed that minorities were severely underrepresented in American comics, and wished to address this.
Static is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character, a creation of Milestone Comics founders Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis, and Derek Dingle was initially written by McDuffie and Robert L. Washington III and illustrated by John Paul Leon. Static's first appearance was made in Static #1 in the Modern Age of Comic Books. Born Virgil Ovid Hawkins, he is a member of a fictional subspecies of humans with superhuman abilities known as metahumans. Not born with his powers, Hawkins's abilities develop after an incident exposes him to a radioactive chemical. This event renders him capable of electromagnetic control and generation.
Static Shock is an American animated television series based on the Milestone Media/DC Comics superhero Static. It premiered on September 23, 2000, on The WB Television Network's Kids' WB programming block. Static Shock ran for four seasons, with 52 half-hour episodes in total. The show revolves around Virgil Hawkins, an African-American boy, who uses the secret identity of 'Static' after exposure to a mutagen gas during a gang fight which gave him electromagnetic powers. Part of the DC animated universe, the series was produced by Warner Bros. Animation from a crew composed mostly of people from the company's past shows, but also with the involvement of two of the comic's creators, Dwayne McDuffie and Denys Cowan.
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