Dawud Anyabwile
- Animation Department
- Art Department
- Producer
Dawud Anyabwile is an Emmy Award Winning and two time Glyph Comics award winning Illustrator and comic artist based in Atlanta, GA. He has received numerous awards and accolades throughout his career including the Key to Kansas City for Outstanding Service to Children. A Lifetime Achievement Award from the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention and in addition he was nominated for the Will Eisner Award - Best Artist category at the San Diego Comic Con in 1992 for his work on the critically acclaimed comic series, BROTHERMAN: Dictator of Discipline.
Dawud was born by the name of David Sims and raised in Philadelphia, PA where he developed his love for art, culture, science fiction and music appreciation. As a young person, Dawud and his brothers explored all kinds of creative forms of expression including stop motion animation, film making and story development.
Dawud was raised in a home where both his mother and father cultivated the arts and self determination which eventually led to the development of Dawud's art skills from a well known street artist and entrepreneur to creating the BROTHERMAN comic series which is recognized as a catalyst for the contemporary Black Comic book movement.
Dawud has since gained studio experience in both NYC, LA and Atlanta by working on popular television shows and feature films such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, Love Simon, The Wild Thornberrys, The Rugrats, MTV's Daria as well conceptualize and storyboard a myriad of commercials and other major projects for CW, BET, TBS, Cartoon Network, TRU TV, CNN and more.
Dawud currently runs his own company, Big City Entertainment, Inc. He recently illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of the NY Times Bestselling novel, MONSTER by Walter Dean Myers and published by Harper Collins and released Book One of the all new BROTHERMAN: Revelation graphic novel series. In January 2018 Dawud announced that much of his original art and artifacts from the Brotherman comics series was just added as part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National African American History Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC.
Dawud was born by the name of David Sims and raised in Philadelphia, PA where he developed his love for art, culture, science fiction and music appreciation. As a young person, Dawud and his brothers explored all kinds of creative forms of expression including stop motion animation, film making and story development.
Dawud was raised in a home where both his mother and father cultivated the arts and self determination which eventually led to the development of Dawud's art skills from a well known street artist and entrepreneur to creating the BROTHERMAN comic series which is recognized as a catalyst for the contemporary Black Comic book movement.
Dawud has since gained studio experience in both NYC, LA and Atlanta by working on popular television shows and feature films such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, Love Simon, The Wild Thornberrys, The Rugrats, MTV's Daria as well conceptualize and storyboard a myriad of commercials and other major projects for CW, BET, TBS, Cartoon Network, TRU TV, CNN and more.
Dawud currently runs his own company, Big City Entertainment, Inc. He recently illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of the NY Times Bestselling novel, MONSTER by Walter Dean Myers and published by Harper Collins and released Book One of the all new BROTHERMAN: Revelation graphic novel series. In January 2018 Dawud announced that much of his original art and artifacts from the Brotherman comics series was just added as part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National African American History Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC.