Paul Dini

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August 07, 1957 in New York, The United States

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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...more 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(less)

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On the subject of Tower Prep...

First off, let me say how grateful I am to the hundreds of Tower Prep fans who have contacted me in the year since the series finished its original run on Cartoon Network. I'm thrilled that the show was enjoyed by so many and I also am sorry that Cartoon Network has chosen not to renew it. Many people have asked me about petitions, e-mail campaigns and the like to keep the show going. I'm not s... read more »

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Books by Paul Dini

Average rating: 3.81 · 9,196 ratings · 569 reviews · 65 distinct works

	Batman: The Heart of Hush by Paul Dini, Dustin Nguyen (Illustrator), Derek Fridolfs (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 1,142 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Batman Adventures: Mad Love by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm 4.32 avg rating — 759 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Batman: War on Crime by Paul Dini, Alex Ross (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Superman: Peace on Earth by Paul Dini, Alex Ross (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 626 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Batman: Detective by Paul Dini, Royal McGraw, J.H. Williams III (Illustrator) 4.00 avg rating — 360 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Batman: Streets of Gotham Vol. 1: Hush Money by Paul Dini, Dustin Nguyen (Illustrator), Derek Fridolfs (Illustrator) 3.72 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Gotham City Sirens Vol. 1: Union by Paul Dini (Writer), Guillem March (Illustrator), Dustin Nguyen (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Batman: Harley and Ivy by Paul Dini, Judd Winick, Bruce Timm (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 311 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Batman Animated by Paul Dini, Chip Kidd 4.46 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Batman: Death and the City by Paul Dini, Stuart Moore, Royal McGraw 3.79 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by Paul Dini

Final Crisis (15 books)
by Paul Dini, Keith Giffen, Adam Beechen, Justin Gray (Goodreads Author), Jimmy Palmiotti, Sean McKeever, Ron Lim (Illustrator), Carlos Magno (Illustrator) , more...

3.33 avg rating — 3,003 ratings

DC 60th Anniversary Tabloids (6 books)
by Paul Dini, Alex Ross (Illustrator), Paul Din

3.92 avg rating — 1,801 ratings

The Batman Adventures (19 books)
by Paul Dini

4.21 avg rating — 1,451 ratings

Gotham City Sirens (4 books)
by Paul Dini, Tony Bedard, Guillem March (Illustrator), Marc Andreyko

3.85 avg rating — 662 ratings

Streets of Gotham (3 books)
by Paul Dini, Dustin Nguyen (Illustrator), Derek Fridolfs (Illustrator)

3.72 avg rating — 606 ratings

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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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“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, Volume 1

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