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Paul Dini

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August 07, 1957

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Paul Dini is an American television producer of animated cartoons. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond and Duck Dodgers. He also developed and scripted Krypto the Superdog and contributed scripts to Animaniacs (he created Minerva Mink), Freakazoid, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. After leaving Warner Bros. In early 2004, Dini went on to write and story edit the popular ABC adventure series Lost.

Paul Dini was born in New York City. He attended the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California on an art scholarship. He attend Paul Dini is an American television producer of animated cartoons. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond and Duck Dodgers. He also developed and scripted Krypto the Superdog and contributed scripts to Animaniacs (he created Minerva Mink), Freakazoid, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. After leaving Warner Bros. In early 2004, Dini went on to write and story edit the popular ABC adventure series Lost.

Paul Dini was born in New York City. He attended the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California on an art scholarship. He attended Emerson College in Boston, where he earned a BFA degree in creative writing. (He also took zoology classes at Harvard University.)

During college, he began doing freelance animation scripts for Filmation, and a number of other studios. In 1984, he was hired to work for George Lucas on several of his animation projects.

The episodes of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon that were written by Dini have become favorites amongst the show's fans over the internet, although despite this as well as contributing to interviews on the released box sets of the series, Dini has made no secret of his distaste for Filmation and the He-Man concept. He also wrote an episode of the Generation One Transformers cartoon series and contributed to various episodes of the Ewoks animated series, several of which included rare appearances from the Empire.

In 1989, he was hired at Warner Bros. Animation to work on Tiny Toon Adventures. Later, he moved onto Batman: The Animated Series, where he worked as a writer, producer and editor, later working on Batman Beyond. He continued working with WB animation, working on a number of internal projects, including Krypto the Superdog and Duck Dodgers, until 2004.

He has earned five Emmy awards for his animation work. In a related effort, Dini was also the co-author (with Chip Kidd) of Batman Animated, a 1998 non-fiction coffee table book about the animated Batman franchise.

Dini has also written several comics stories for DC Comics, including an acclaimed oversized graphic novel series illustrated by painter Alex Ross. (A hardcover collection of the Dini and Ross stories was published in late summer 2005 under the title The World's Greatest Superheroes.) Other books written by Dini for DC have featured his Batman Animated creation Harley Quinn as well as classic characters Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Zatanna.

Best known among Dini's original creations is Jingle Belle, the rebellious teen-age daughter of Santa Claus. Dini also created Sheriff Ida Red, the super-powered cowgirl star of a series of books set in Dini's mythical town of Mutant, Texas. Perhaps his greatest character contribution is the introduction of Harley Quinn (along with designs by Bruce Timm) on Batman: The Animated Series.

In 2001 Dini made a cameo appearance in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back during the scene in which Jay and Silent Bob wear ridiculous looking costumes for a film being directed by Chris Rock, in which Dini says to them "you guys look pretty bad ass".

In 2006, Dini became the writer for DC Comics' Detective Comics. That same year, he announced that he was writing a hardcover graphic novel starring Zatanna and Black Canary. In 2007, he was announced as the head writer of that company's weekly series, Countdown. Paul Dini is currently co-writing the script for the upcoming Gatchaman movie. Dini is also currently writing a series for Top Cow Productions, based in a character he created, Madame Mirage.

Paul Dini is an active cryptozoologist, hunter and wildlife photographer. On a 1985 trip to Tasmania, he had a possible sighting of a Thylacine. He has also encountered a number of venomous snakes, a Komodo Dragon and a charging Sumatran Rhi ...more

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	The Batman Adventures: Mad Love by Paul Dini (Writer), Bruce Timm (Writer/Illustrator/Colorist), Rick Taylor (Colorist) 4.29 avg rating — 10,274 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Batman: Heart of Hush by Paul Dini, Dustin Nguyen (Illustrator), Derek Fridolfs (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 8,823 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Night: A True Batman Story by Paul Dini, Eduardo Risso (Illustrator) 4.12 avg rating — 4,971 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Batman: War on Crime 4.19 avg rating — 4,535 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman: Peace On Earth 4.13 avg rating — 4,045 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Batman Adventures: Mad Love and Other Stories by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm (Illustrator), Various (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 3,800 ratings — published 2009 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Batman: Streets of Gotham - Hush Money by Paul Dini (Writer), Dustin Nguyen (Illustrator), J.G. Jones (Illustrator) 4.02 avg rating — 3,559 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Batman: Harley and Ivy by Paul Dini, Judd Winick, Bruce Timm (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 3,102 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gotham City Sirens, Vol. 1: Union by Paul Dini (Writer), Guillem March (Illustrator), Scott Lobdell (Writer) 4.02 avg rating — 2,788 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Batman: Harley Quinn by Paul Dini, Yvek Guichet 4.13 avg rating — 2,590 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Batman Detective (4 books)
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Paul Dini,

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Derek Fridolfs (Illustrator)

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Gotham City Sirens (4 books)
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Guillem March (Illustrator)

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Batman: Streets of Gotham (3 books)
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Zatanna (4 books)
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Joe Quiñones (Illustrator)

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Gotham City Sirens (Single Issues) (26 books)
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Guillem March (Cover Art),

Álvaro López (Inker),

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“Riddler: You want to tell me who you killed and why?
Catwoman: We didn’t kill anyone
Poisson Ivy: Well, not yesterday”
― Paul Dini, Gotham City Sirens, Vol. 2: Songs of the Sirens

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“There's so much going on here, and out there, and places we don't even know about. Everything's so scary and uncertain. We never know when fate will shake it all up."

"That's pretty deep."

"You gotta wonder how we'll ever make it through."

"I guess we can fall back on what's gotten us this far."

"A positive attitude and lots of denial?”
― Paul Dini, Countdown to Final Crisis, Vol. 4

tags: dc-comics, final-crisis, harley-quinn, holly-robinson

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“Clean this place out. I want hard drives, gadgets, papers, circuit boards, everything. Grab the pencil sharpener if it looks interesting.”
― Paul Dini, Madame Mirage, Vol. 1

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Which of these books would you like to be our next Group Read Discussion (March 2017)?

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The Sandman: Overture Neil Gaiman

15 votes, 18.8%

Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars Jeff Lemire

10 votes, 12.5%

Superman: American Alien Max Landis

8 votes, 10.0%

March: Book One John Lewis

7 votes, 8.8%

Vagabond, Volume 1 Takehiko Inoue

7 votes, 8.8%

Powers, Vol. 1: Who Killed Retro Girl?Brian Michael Bendis

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Terminal Lance: The White Donkey Maximilian Uriarte

4 votes, 5.0%

Postal, Vol. 1 Bryan Hill

3 votes, 3.8%

Supreme: Blue Rose Warren Ellis

3 votes, 3.8%

The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man Tom King

3 votes, 3.8%

The Animal Man Omnibus Grant Morrison

3 votes, 3.8%

Black Science, Vol. 2: Welcome, Nowhere Rick Remender

2 votes, 2.5%

Invisible Republic, Vol. 1 Gabriel Hardman

2 votes, 2.5%

Dark Night : Une histoire vraie Paul Dini

2 votes, 2.5%

Head Lopper, Vol. 1: The Island or A Plague of Beasts Andrew MacLean

1 vote, 1.3%

Ghosts Raina Telgemeier

1 vote, 1.3%

Astrid: Cult of the Volcanic Moon Kim W. Andersson

1 vote, 1.3%

Space Mullet Volume 1: One Gamble at a Time Daniel Warren Johnson

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Habitat Simon Roy

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Nightmare Escape Greg Grunberg

0 votes, 0.0%

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