# Darwyn Cooke (comics) Q

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**Created:** [September 23, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwyn-cooke-comics-q/921318 "2020-09-23T14:49:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwyn-cooke-comics-q/921318/1 "2020-09-23T14:49:30Z")

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There’s a dimly-remembered story about the late Darwyn Cooke, the wonderful cartoonist responsible for DC’s “New Frontier” some years back, punching out a Marvel editor and getting blackballed from ever working there again. Does anybody remember the details? I can’t find anything online about it.

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**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwyn-cooke-comics-q/921318/2 "2020-09-23T15:05:25Z")

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You couldn’t have looked very hard

> **NASO: One of the altercations that seems to get a lot of attention is an incident with current Marvel editor, Axel Alonso. After the _Wizard_ feature on you came out, a letter from Marvel editor Nick Lowe appeared in a subsequent issue accusing you of attacking Axel without provocation at a convention and said you should be embarrassed by the incident. What exactly happened between you and Axel that led to the altercation?**

COOKE: There are four other people involved in the situation that caused what happened there. I can’t go into it out of respect for them, and the fact that it would take another 40 pages to explain the entire sleazy situation. I will say this about it: You don’t pour a beer on a senior editor in the hotel bar of a show unless you feel he has done something incredibly despicable.\<

> **[The Darwyn Cooke Interview - Page 4 of 5 - The Comics Journal](https://www.tcj.com/the-darwyn-cooke-interview-by-markisan-naso/4/)**
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> In this 2007 interview, Cooke talks about growing up in Canada, his career in animation and comics, and whether or not he can actually take anyone in a fight.