Cooke drew a short back up story written by Michael Uslan and inked by Mike Allred.Ĭooke’s next project was a 6-issue mini-series published in 2004, called DC: The New Frontier. Also in 2002, Darwyn appeared in Just Imagine Stan Lee creating Catwoman. This graphic novel told the tale of what had happened to the character directly before this series. In 2002, he wrote and drew a prequel, Selina's Big Score. Cooke stayed on the series, which was met with much critical acclaim, until issue #4. They started with a 4-issue arc in Detective Comics #759-62 entitled " Trail of the Catwoman." The story led to a new Catwoman title by Brubaker and Cooke, in which the character’s costume and supporting cast were redesigned. In 2001, Cooke and writer Ed Brubaker teamed up to revamp Catwoman. The success of this work led to Cooke getting snagged by Marvel to work on Spider-Man’s Tangled Web, X-Force and Wolverine/Doop. This project was a graphic novel published under the title Batman: Ego in 2000. For about a year, Darwyn also worked as director for Sony Animation’s Men in Black: The Series.ĭC Comics then approached Cooke about a project which he had submitted years earlier.
Then in 1999, he became head animator on Batman Beyond. He was, however, hired by Bruce Timm at Warner Brothers Animation to work as a storyboard artist for both the Superman: The Animated Series and Batman: The Animated Series. In the early 90s, Cooke tried to return to comics, but found little interest in his style among the major publishers. During that time, he worked as a graphic designer and art director. But the pressure to make a living forced him out of the comic book industry for the next 25 years.
His first foray as a professional comic book artist occurred in 1985 with a short story in DC’s Talent Showcase #19.
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