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Paul Dini

Co-creator of Harley Quinn and Terry McGinnis, writer of Batman: The Animated Series.

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Dini wrote an episode for the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon in 1983 and contributed to various episodes of the Star Wars: Ewoks animated series.[1] He later worked on Batman: The Animated Series as a writer, producer and editor.[2] Dini and Bruce Timm introduced Harley Quinn in Batman: The Animated Series, with her first appearance in the episode "Joker's Favor".[3] George Lucas hired Dini in 1984 to contribute to multiple animation projects.[4]

For the 1983–1985 television series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Dini authored several episodes.[1] Warner Bros. Animation brought Dini on board in 1989 to write for Tiny Toon Adventures.[2] The animated series Freakazoid! was co-created by Dini together with Bruce Timm.[5]

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A Yahoo article notes that Dini was a key figure in the Ewoks writers' room before becoming an Emmy-winning creative force behind Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond.[6] The same source states that Dini spoke with Yahoo TV in 2015 about launching the earliest Star Wars cartoon series.[6] An Alter article identifies Dini as a key figure in the Ewoks writers' room and a creative force behind Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond.[7] A Syfy Wire article states that Batman Beyond was created by Timm, Paul Dini, and Alan Burnett.[8]

An Animation World Network article reports that Paul Dini served as a producer and writer on the series Duck Dodgers.[9] A ComicsAlliance interview notes that Jingle Belle is the creation of Paul Dini.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Paul Dini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "One on One with Paul Dini", Hobo Trash Can, January 3, 2006; Alter, "'Star Wars': How 'Ewoks' and 'Droids' Arrived on Saturday Morning TV", Yahoo! News, December 18, 2015 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Paul Dini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: McMillan, "Paul Dini's 'Boo and Hiss' Takes 'Tom and Jerry' to the Next Level", The Hollywood Reporter, October 24, 2017; Weiss, "NYCC 2019: Batman Beyond celebrates 20 years of influencing DC animation", Syfy Wire, October 6, 2019; Frederiksen, "Batman: Remastered and Rewatched – Episode 14 – Heart of Ice", Batman News, June 8, 2019; Godfrey, "Duck Dodgers Blasts Onto Cartoon Network", Animation World Network, September 30, 2002 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Paul Dini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Manning, "DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle", Dorling Kindersley, 2010, p. 265; Kendall, "Revisiting the Little Known Sequel to The Joker & Harley's Mad Love", Comic Book Resources, March 4, 2018; "1994 Harvey Award Nominees and Winners", Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac; Sims, "On The Cheap: The 50-Page 'Batman Adventures Holiday Special' Is 99 Cents This Week", ComicsAlliance, July 2, 2015; Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 289: "Harley Quinn finally made her way into the DC Universe in her own one-shot prestige-format special by w en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Paul Dini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Alter, "Secrets behind the long lost 'Star Wars' Saturday morning cartoon shows 'Droids' and 'Ewoks' revealed", Yahoo!, May 4, 2020 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Paul Dini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Freak Out! Everything you didn't know about Freakazoid!", Syfy Wire, June 11, 2020 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Alter, "Secrets behind the long lost 'Star Wars' Saturday morning cartoon shows 'Droids' and 'Ewoks' revealed", Yahoo!, May 4, 2020. facts only, no text reused. yahoo.com
  7. Alter, "'Star Wars': How 'Ewoks' and 'Droids' Arrived on Saturday Morning TV", Yahoo! News, December 18, 2015. facts only, no text reused. news.yahoo.com
  8. Weiss, "NYCC 2019: Batman Beyond celebrates 20 years of influencing DC animation", Syfy Wire, October 6, 2019. facts only, no text reused. syfy.com
  9. Godfrey, "Duck Dodgers Blasts Onto Cartoon Network", Animation World Network, September 30, 2002. facts only, no text reused. awn.com
  10. Sims, "She Can Only Save (Or Destroy) Christmas So Many Times: Paul Dini Talks 'Jingle Belle' [Interview]", ComicsAlliance, November 6, 2013. facts only, no text reused. comicsalliance.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Paul Dini (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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