David F. Walker Biography
David F. Walker is an American comic book writer and novelist. Walker began writing on film and comic books in the 1990s, publishing articles on his website and the zine BadAzz MoFo, which he launched in 1996. He eventually began writing for comic book publishers and magazines, including Dark Horse Comics and Giant Robot.
David F. Walker Age
David was born on 1 December 1968, in the United States of America. He is 55 years old as of December 2023.
David F. Walker Family
Attempts to establish the identities of his family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
David F. Walker Career
Walker began writing on film and comic books in the 1990s, publishing articles on his website and the zine BadAzz MoFo, which he launched in 1996. He eventually began writing for comic book publishers and magazines, including Dark Horse Comics and Giant Robot. Walker co-wrote the comic novel Shaft: A Complicated Man for Dynamite Entertainment in 2015. It received the Glyph Award for Story of the Year and was nominated for the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comic Books. That year, he also wrote the novel Shaft’s Revenge, which was first serialized and released as a digital download to match the Shaft comics. Walker and Sanford Greene penned the 2016 reboot of Marvel Comics’ Power Man and Iron Fist.
Walker and Brian Michael Bendis co-created the character Naomi McDuffie, who debuted in the DC Comics book Naomi in 2018. Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship produced the television series of the same name, which aired on The CW. Walker established Solid Comix, a comics publisher funded entirely through crowdsourcing in 2019. He published original comic novels through Solid Comix, including Bitter Root, a collaboration with Greene and Chuck Brown, and The Hated. In 2021, Netflix purchased The Hated, which follows bounty hunter Araminta Free across an alternate timeline of the post-Civil War United States. It was revealed that Michael Starrbury would write the series. In 2019, Walker published The Life of Frederick Douglass, a historical graphic novel biography of Frederick Douglass. He contributed to the anthology series The Old Guard: Tales Through Time. He also currently co-writes Superb for Lion Forge Comics and Victory, a spin-off of Vampirella, for Dynamite Entertainment. It was announced in 2023 that Walker was writing a new Planet of the Apes comics series for Marvel.
David F. Walker Awards
Walker was nominated for the Dragon Award for Best Comic Book and won the Eisner Award for Best Continuing Comic Book in 2020 with Bitter Root. In 2022, he won another Eisner for Best Continuing Series for Bitter Root, as well as an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for The Black Panther Party: A Graphic History. He earned an Inkpot Award in 2023.
David F. Walker Net Worth
Walker has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.