I'm sad to learn that Dwayne McDuffie died. He lived in Couzens Hall at the University of Michigan the same time I did, and while there he made two students movies. I had bit parts in each- once playing a drugged-out student and the second time as a bad actor in a super hero film (total typecasting, since I was and am a terrible actor).

I knew that he later directed a Prince video, but wasn't aware that he was successful in the comic book industry. It is weird seeing someone I knew, albeit in a small way, featured in a New York Times obituary.