Two Years After Dwayne
Feb. 22nd, 2013 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineIt's the second anniversary of Dwayne McDuffie's death come 'round this weekend.
Again: he did a lot of things as a storyteller, a teacher, and a friend. I got to say "thank you" for a lot of those things before he died. I'm still sorry he's not still with us.
And yet, it seems that he's begun to be more an exemplar of what can yet be done with the art form and business of comics now.
http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/43745032759/two-years-gone-dwayne-mcduffie-lets-remember-lets
I don't know about anger as the link above recommends, not yet.
But focus, determination, strength of purpose...these remain useful. Dwayne demonstrated them all, by turns or all at once. And we didn't know all of what we'd been blessed with in having him alive and working, not then. Maybe not even now.
I haven't done a lot of comics work. I don't know now - despite the dreams I've had and the promises I've made - that I'll ever do a lot.
But I want to do right by the memory of what Dwayne gave us, as best I can.
Again: he did a lot of things as a storyteller, a teacher, and a friend. I got to say "thank you" for a lot of those things before he died. I'm still sorry he's not still with us.
And yet, it seems that he's begun to be more an exemplar of what can yet be done with the art form and business of comics now.
http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/43745032759/two-years-gone-dwayne-mcduffie-lets-remember-lets
I don't know about anger as the link above recommends, not yet.
But focus, determination, strength of purpose...these remain useful. Dwayne demonstrated them all, by turns or all at once. And we didn't know all of what we'd been blessed with in having him alive and working, not then. Maybe not even now.
I haven't done a lot of comics work. I don't know now - despite the dreams I've had and the promises I've made - that I'll ever do a lot.
But I want to do right by the memory of what Dwayne gave us, as best I can.