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BIOGRAPHY Early years Paul Dini was born in New York City . He attended the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach , California on an art scholarship. He attended Emerson College in Boston , where he earned a BFA degree in creative writing. (He also took Zoology classes at Harvard University .) During college, he began doing Freelance animation scripts for Filmation , and a number of other studios. In 1984, he was hired to work for George Lucas on several of his animation projects. The episodes of the He-Man cartoon that were written by Dini have become favorites amongst the show's fans over the internet, although despite this as well as contributing to interviews on the released box sets of the series, Dini has made no secret of his distaste for Filmation and the He-Man concept. He also wrote an episode of the Generation 1 Transformers cartoon series, and contributed to various episodes of the Ewoks animated series, several of which included rare apperances from The Empire. Professional career In 1989, he was hired at '', where he worked as a writer, producer and editor, later working on '' Batman Beyond ''. He continued working with WB animation, working on a number of internal projects, including '' Krypto The Superdog '' and '' Duck Dodgers '', until 2004. He has earned five Emmy awards for his animation work. Dini has also written several comics stories for DC Comics, including an acclaimed oversized Graphic Novel series illustrated by painter Alex Ross . (A hardcover collection of the Dini and Ross stories was published in late summer 2005 under the title '' The World's Greatest Superheroes ''.) Other books written by Dini for DC have featured his Batman Animated creation Harley Quinn as well as classic characters Superman , Batman , Captain Marvel and Zatanna . Best known among Dini's original creations is Jingle Belle , the rebellious teen-age daughter of Santa Claus . Dini also created Sheriff Ida Red , the super-powered Cowgirl star of a series of books set in Dini's mythical town of Mutant, Texas . His series of Animated Cartoons starring DC Comics characters is sometimes known to fans as the Diniverse . In 2006, Dini will become the writer for Detective Comics . This will be Dini's first regular comic assignment. Hobbies Paul Dini is an active Cryptozoologist , hunter, and wildlife photographer. On a 1985 trip to Tasmania , he had a possible sighting of a Thylacine . He has also encountered a number of Venomous Snakes , a Komodo Dragon and a charging Sumatran Rhinoceros and once kept a wild Coyote as a pet. Paul Dini is also an amateur stage magician, and an active member of the Academy Of Magical Arts . Appropriately enough, one of his favorite DC Comics characters is Zatanna . He has also performed several minor roles in films by Kevin Smith . Paul Dini lives in Los Angeles , California and is married to magician Misty Lee . AWARDS Dini has won five and Batman Beyond . He received the Writer's Guild Animation Writing award in 2000 and a second WGA award for dramatic television writing in 2006 as a member of the writing team for '' Lost ''. Dini is also a three time winner of the animation industry's Annie Awards and has won seven comics industry Eisner Awards and three Harvey Awards . Dini has received nominations for the Comics' Buyer's Guide Award for Favorite Writer in 1999 and 2000. REFERENCES
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