![]() ![]() Released in six oversized issues, the series won multiple Eisner, Harvey and Shuster Awards before being collected in multiple editions and adapted into an animated movie on which Cooke worked as consultant. His breakthrough work was 2004’s DC: The New Frontier, a reimagining of DC’s Justice League and related characters set during the 1950s/’ 60s era in which they were created. ![]() Animation as a storyboard artist on the 1990s shows Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series, became known in comics around the turn of the century via projects including Batman: Ego and a critically acclaimed revival of Catwoman with writer Ed Brubaker. Cooke kept his battle with cancer private until a Friday announcement via a post titled “f- cancer” on his official website, in which his wife Marsha wrote that “with tremendous sadness” Cooke was “receiving palliative care following a bout with aggressive cancer.” The extent to which the cancer had progressed was not disclosed, although rumors broke on social media Friday night that the creator had passed.Ĭooke, whose résumé also included work with Warner Bros. ![]()
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