My con adventures can be found in bite-sized chunks on Twitter, or over at my official Facebook Page, but I had two announcements I thought I should post here:

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien returns 10/10/10. That’s October 10th, 2010, with an all-new one-hour special, written by me. Aggregor reveals his plans, Kevin’s secrets begin to be revealed, and Ben’s world will never be the same.

Also, Warner Home Video revealed the title of my next project, so I can finally talk about it. It’s a feature-length animated adaptation of one of the greatest stories in comic book history. And it will be out next spring:

Morrison and Quitely’s All Star Superman.

My alumni magazine’s on-line edition has a very nice retrospective of my career.

“I can work in my pajamas and I get paid for lying,” said Dwayne McDuffie, a comic book writer who has also won several awards for his work in animation, including the television shows “Justice League Unlimited (JLU),” “Static Shock,” and “Ben 10: Alien Force,” as well as comics, including Marvel Comics’ “Damage Control,” DC Comics’ “Justice League of America” (upon which the JLU cartoon is based) and its Milestone line of titles.

“I like writing. I like telling stories. I love comics a crazy amount—it’s so much fun. It’s a labor of love, but it doesn’t really pay that much. I enjoy writing for animation, but it takes a lot of time and it’s a real job. Being a TV writer is like having homework for the rest of your life; you always owe somebody something. Very few evenings are yours.”

Click here and read the rest …

I didn’t think I was attending this year, but it turns out I’m going to be there all week. Because of the short notice, I’m only making three formal appearances this year, listed below:

FRIDAY

10:30-11:30 Nappy Hour— Keith Knight (the Knight Life, the K Chronicles, MAD) brings his informal gathering of African American creators out of the bar and onto the stage for an hour of tips, hints, secrets, and thoughts on how to make it in the comics biz. With Ned Cato, Jr. (GeekRoundTable.com), David Walker (BadAzzMofo.com), Spike Trotman (Templar AZ), and Dwayne McDuffie (Static Shock, Justice League).  Room 3

Categories:  Cartooning and Comic Strips | Comic-Con Special Guest Spotlights & Appearances | Comics

SATURDAY

1:45-2:45 Cartoon Network: Action Adventure Animation— Meet the creators and talent behind some of Cartoon Network’s biggest boy heroes, Ben 10 and Generator Rex. From Man of Action meet Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau, and Steven T. Seagle along with the Ben 10: Ultimate Alien team members Glenn Murakami (supervising producer), Dwayne McDuffie (story editor), Yuri Lowenthal (voice of Ben), and Greg Cipes (voice of Kevin). Generator Rex panelists include John Fang (supervising producer), Rob Hoegee (story editor), Daryl Sabara (voice of Rex), and Wally Kurth (voice of Agent Six). Also make sure not to miss a first look at Sym-Bionic Titan with Genndy Tartakovsky, Bryan Andrews, Paul Rudish, and Darrick Bachman. Room 6DE

Categories:  Action/Adventure | Animation | Kids | Television

3:30-4:30 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Generator Rex, Sym-Bionic Titan Signing

Categories:  Action/Adventure | Animation | Kids | Television | Autograph Alley

Since for once I’m not doing panels all day, I’m planning on hanging out with friends and maybe even buying some comics. As always, if you see me on the floor, say hello, I love to meet you guys, and I’ll always sign anything of mine you’ve got. See you in San Diego!

My sincere regrets, due to a personal emergency, I will NOT be attending the Kids Read Comics convention this weekend. Sorry for the last minute notice. You should still attend though, it’s going to be a very fun Con.

I’ll be spending next weekend just over the border from my home town of Detroit, at the 2nd annual “Kids Read Comics” Convention. It’s June 12 & 13, 2010 at the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn. I’ll be doing two panels, well, actually the same panel on two days:

Panel Discussion – Life In The Writers’ Room

Sat, June 12th, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Sun, June 13, 11:00 AM to 12:00 AM

Picture yourself in a little room full of writers planning the next big animated series… now live it! Experience of what happens when the writers get together to develop episodes for an animated series with Dwayne McDuffie of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Static Shock and Justice League Unlimited.

Teens/Adults – Registration Required

I’ll also have a table, and I’ll be hawking a fine selection of Trade paperbacks of some of my best comics. I’m thinking about bringing some animation scripts to sell at a few dollars a piece, so there’s something for me to autograph that’s less than $20. Also, I’m assuming that people who go to my panel will be interested in that sort of thing. Comments?

Anyway I hope I’ll see some of you there. Here’s a description of the con:

Generations of kids have grown up reading and loving comics. And it’s not hard to see why comics have captured the imagination of kids and teens — with their unique blend of words and pictures, even the most everyday comics stories open up worlds of wonder.

And beyond the sheer joy of comics is the fact that they can help turn kids into more active and engaged readers. They also provide a model for young readers to explore and develop their own creativity.

But comics are no longer the mass medium they once were. Far fewer kids are exposed to them today, and many of the comics they find are intended for older readers. That’s where Kids Read Comics comes in!

Our Kids Read Comics Convention is a totally free event that unites kids, teens, parents, teachers and librarians with professional artists and writers from the comics and animation fields. Our goal is to introduce kids to worlds of imagination while unlocking their creative impulses, and to serve that goal, the convention features:

• hands-on workshops

• panels and presentations for kids, families, and educators

• a chance for kids to meet and chat with comics and animation professionals

• the opportunity for kids to have their own art portfolios reviewed

KRC also works throughout the year to promote comics and creativity for kids and teens. We’re building a recommended reading list; gathering resources for parents, teachers and librarians; and organizing artists and writers who can bring presentations and workshops to libraries around the state of Michigan and beyond.

My Facebook Page has reached the 5000 friend limit, and I couldn’t get most of you to follow me over to my new official Facebook home, The Dwayne McDuffie Page so I’m trying this: frequent updates at my new Twitter account: Dwayne_McDuffie. Follow me there, or at the The Dwayne McDuffie Page, which will mirror the Twitter Page, if I’ve set it up correctly. I’m also planning to put a widget on the dwaynemcduffie.com front page, if I can con Eugene into doing it for me. But no kidding this time, as soon as I have 1000 followers at the Twitter page, I’m shutting down the original Facebook page to everyone but actual friends and family.

My personal favorite run of Icon, back in print after over 15 years:

STRANDED ON EARTH FOR 10 GENERATIONS…

In 1839, an alien starliner malfunctioned and exploded. A jettisoned life pod crashed — in the middle of a cotton field, in the Deep South. The pod was equipped with a unique survival mechanism, which reconfigured the genetic structure of its passenger to match whatever life form it first encountered. And so it happened that Miriam, the slave woman who discovered the pod, found inside a baby boy with her mother’s eyes.

Stranded on our primitive world for nearly two centuries, the alien takes the guise of successful lawyer, Augustus Freeman IV. Eventually, encouraged by the passion of an opinionated young woman named Rocket, he dons a costume to symbolize Humanity’s potential, and uses his incredible powers to benefit us all as Icon, the Hero of Dakota.

A HERO IS GOING HOME…

Now things are about to change, Icon’s people have found him, and he’s about to return to his home in another galaxy. But Rocket refuses to give up the dream. The world needs Icon, and she’s determined to find someone to fill the role, even if it means somehow teaching the brain-damaged, 1970’s blaxploitation buffoon Buck Wild what it means to be a hero.

Writer Dwayne McDuffie (STATIC SHOCK, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA) and artist M.D. Bright (GREEN LANTERN) present a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed story of hope and heroism both years ahead of its time and long overdue.

This August, Marvel’s putting out a massive collection featuring the Women of Marvel Comics, and it includes three stories by me; the entire 96 page SHE HULK: CEREMONY graphic novel that I wrote with Chicago theatre great, Robin Chaplik, with art by June Brigman; and both of the 38-page  CAPTAIN MARVEL specials I wrote in the late Eighties, art by my future ICON partner in crime, Mark Bright.

WOMEN OF MARVEL: CELEBRATING SEVEN DECADES OMNIBUS

Written by STAN LEE, LINDA FITE, JEAN THOMAS, GERRY CONWAY, ROY THOMAS, TONY ISABELLA, ED HANNIGAN, CAROL SEULING, STEVE GERBER, MIKE FRIEDRICH, JIM SHOOTER, DAVID MICHELINIE, JOHN BYRNE, TOM DEFALCO, DWAYNE MCDUFFIE, DWIGHT D. COYE, JM DEMATTEIS, JACK C. HARRIS & RICHARD HOWELL

Penciled by VARIOUS

Covers by OLIVIER COIPEL & RAMONA FRADON

For seventy years, Marvel Comics has been chronicling the adventures of heroes across the world — and now it’s time for the heroines to shine! Featuring your favorite fighting females from across the decades! Millie the Model! Patsy Walker and Hedy Wolfe! The Wasp! The Black Widow! Night Nurse! Tigra! Shanna the She-Devil! The Dazzler! Firestar! Captain Marvel! She-Hulk! Storm! Against threats including Man-Killer, Nekra, the White Queen and the Silver Samurai! Collected together here for the first time in one titanic tome! Collecting TALES TO ASTONISH (1959) #51-58, X-MEN (1963) #57, NIGHT NURSE #1-4, CAT #1-4, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #8, GIANT-SIZE CREATURES #1, MARVEL PREMIERE #42, SHANNA THE SHE-DEVIL (1972) #1-5, KA-ZAR: LORD OF THE HIDDEN JUNGLE #2, DAREDEVIL (1964) #108-112, MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #3, MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #12, #16 & #18, FIRESTAR #1-4, SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK: CEREMONY #1-2, CAPTAIN MARVEL (1989) #1, CAPTAIN MARVEL (1994) #1, MILLIE THE MODEL #100, PATSY AND HEDY ANNUAL #1, SOLO AVENGERS #9, MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #36 and MARVEL FANFARE #59.

1160 PGS

What happens to your family if the bad guys know where you live?

Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, and if theres anything better than comics, it’s got to be free comics. Check your local stores for details, and get yourself some goodies.

If you want to meet me, and you’re in Southern California, I’ll be signing comics, trades, and DVDs at 4 Color Fantasies, from Noon – 3:00pm. They’ll have plenty of my stuff for sale, but I’ll also sign anything of mine you bring with you.

It’s all happening at:

4 Color Fantasies
7172 Archibald Ave
Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Click here for more info…

And just in case meeting me and getting a fistfull of free comics isn’t enough to get you out of the house on a Saturday morning, check out the other great guests:

MARK WAID
1pm to 4pm

BOOM! Studios Editor, 2010 Eisner nominated creator of IRREDEEMABLE, INCORRUPTIBLE, writer of KINGDOM COME, SUPERMAN: BIRTHRIGHT, THE FLASH, SPIDER-MAN and many others

WHILCE PORTACIO
1:30pm to 3:30pm

Co Founder of IMAGE COMICS, artist for such titles as BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL, PUNISHER, X-FACTOR, HULK, IMAGE UNITED, X-MEN

PHILIP TAN
11am to 2pm

Artist for DC Comics, works include OUTSIDERS, GREEN LANTERN, BATMAN & ROBIN. Cover artist for SPAWN, UNCANNY X-MEN

Thomas Zahler
Writer and artist of the indy fan-favorite comic, LOVE AND CAPES. For over three years, he’s chronicled the adventures in love of an ordinary bookstore owner and her accountant boyfriend… who also happens to be the superhero The Crusader.

Dwayne McDuffie
Noon to 3pm

Writer for TV & Comics creating STATIC SHOCK. His works include JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED, JUSTICE LEAGUE CRISIS ON TWO WORLDS

Adam Beechen
Writer for TV and Comics including THE BATMAN, X-MEN EVOLUTIONS, STATIC SHOCK. Comics work includes TEEN TITAN GO!, BATGIRL. Current working on a 6 part BATMAN BEYONDmini series.

Norm Rapmund
Norm has been an exclusive inker for DC Comics. He is best known for his work on SUPERGIRLwith Ian Churchill. Recently, he worked on FINAL CRISIS: SUBMITand HUNTRESS: YEAR ONE, but currently he is doing finishes on and Booster Gold.

Danny Miki
Danny is currently an inker for Marvel Comics. His works include ULTIMATUM, ULTIMATE COMICS AVENGERS, THOR, INCREDIBLE HULKand is the exclusive inker for all of Joe Quesada’s art work (including the double cover of Amazing Spider-Man #600coming up).

Allen Martinez
Allen is an artist/inker for Marvel Comics. He has worked on such comics as SECRET INVASION: REQUIEM, UNCANNY X-MENand most recently he has been working on NEW AVENGERS & IRON MAN LEGACIES.

Amy Wolfram
Amy Wolfram is a TV & Comic writer whose credits include 15 episodes of the animated series TEEN TITANS as well as episodes of LEGION OF SUPERHEROS,and BEN 10 among others.TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE is her venture into comic books along with several issues of CARTOON NETWORKS BEN 10

John C. Narcomey, Jr
John is the Publisher/Artist for Hightower Comics an independent comic publisher located locally in Riverside CA. John is the creator of the flagship titles GHOST FACEand SMART BULLETS.He has recently started his personal project of DRAW HARD STUDIOS.

AJ Herrera
Founder of Forbidden PanelWebsite. Creator of ZKS (Zombie Kill Squad) published under Forbidden Panel

Justin White
Artist on ZKS (Zombie Kill Squad) and Co-Creator and Artist on upcoming comic called THE GRAVES

Dani Dixon
Comic book creator/writer and publisher Dani Dixon speaks at events throughout the year on a number of topics related to writing, publishing and art. Her newest book “13″ has been published by TUMBLECREEK PRESS

Julian Aguilera
Julian has worked on GRIMM FAIRY TALESby Zenoscope and with Joe Quesada, Danny Miki on WOLVERINE for Marvel and Jim Lee for DC Comics.

Pedram Shohadai
Pedi is known in the comic universe for his work for Marvel Comics on SPIDER-MAN and IMAGE COMICS for his work on Todd McFarlane’s SPAWN. Pedram currently works on 3-D rendering for many different movies including ALICE IN WONDERLAND, RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN.

Brandi Auset
Author of The Goddess Guide: Exploring the Attributes and Correspondences of the Divine Feminine, and is currently writing a book of Goddess meditations, as well as an divination deck. She also dabbles in novel fiction and graphic novels. She has won awards for her poetry, and is working on a series of dark fantasy stories for publication.

Celebrity Signings

TC Carson
TC Carson has a long list of film and television credits. They include the military thriller “U-571″ with Mathew McConaughey also, the cult favorites “Final Destination 2″ and “Living Large”.
He is best know as the debonair and charismatic Kyle Barker on the Fox Television series “Living Single”.

TC’s 5 year stint on the show earned him 2 NAACP Image award nominations for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series. The show continues to run in syndication in Europe, Australia and in the US.

TC Carson’s voice can be heard in a number of diverse settings.

He has been a sought after artist for voiceovers. From the roles of Mailman Carson, Fire Chief Campbell and Samuel on the family friendly TV series “Clifford the Big Red Dog” to the voice of Mace Windu in the sci-fi video game “Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith”, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”, and the voice of God in “The God Of War” video game series.