Date of Birth: December 15, 1961
Before comics
Reginald Hudlin was a comic loving geek who grew up in Centreville, Illinois. Reggie’s favorite superheroes were the Black Panther and Spider-Man. After High School he attended the prestigious Harvard where he studied film and directing. His movie House Party was based on his Harvard film school these making him one of the few film students to launch a successful film career right off the bat.
After the success of House Party he went on to direct “Boomerang” Starring Eddie Murphy and Halle Berry, ‘The Great White Hype” starring Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans,and Jamie Fox,” The Ladies Man” starring Tim Meadows and ”Saving Sarah” starring Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley.
Comic career
Reggie entered the world of comics in 2005 as series writer for what was supposed to be a Black Panther limited series. The success of the opening arc “Who is the Black Panther” lead marvel to turn the series into an ongoing. His run was marked for having mixed reviews and reception from fans though to his credit he had the highest single issue sales in Black Panther History (see detailed info on our sales figures page) and even at it’s lowest it sold more than the lowest of Christopher Priest’s run.
Other notable comic writing credits include “Marvel Knights: Spider-Man”, “Black Panther and Captain America: Flags of our fathers” and “Black Panther: Deadliest of the species“
Other Notable accomplishments
Reggie was also the first President of Entertainment for BET(Black Entertainment Television) from 2005-20009. The strength of his Black Panther run lead to a six episode one season spanning BET motion comic series based on “who is the Black Panther”.
Reggie has directing credits on “Everybody hates Chris” and the “Bernie Mac show”. He also has a “Glyph fan award for Best Comic” in 2007.
Interviews
Read our indepth interview with Reggie as we discuss all things Black Panther
August 16th, 2011 at 12:11 am
[...] Hatut Zeraze doing with T’challa? They were exiled years ago and never even mentioned during the Reginald Hudlin Black Panther run which is where this story would fit [...]
August 16th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
[...] busy as he is directing, writing and ruling the world Reginald Hudlin Writer, Director, businessman and all around comic book fan sat down with world of black heroes for [...]
August 21st, 2011 at 12:10 am
[...] bit of speculation came about. It got me thinking, Christopher Priest fans will want one thing, Hudlin fans another. Those of us who enjoyed both runs want another and the casual fans who never bought a [...]
September 6th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
[...] off kilter romance started not in Marvel Diva’s #1 but in Black Panther #13 by Reggie Hudlin where the black super team of Photon, Drumm, Blade, Luke Cage and Black Panther came together to [...]
September 6th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
[...] it was just great seeing them all together unified and not beating each other senseless. I salute Hudlin for this story it truly is just damn [...]
September 19th, 2011 at 1:08 am
[...] even get me started on how useless, spineless and underused Storm is! People complained about how Hudlin used her in Black Panther? HA! Clearly they have not been reading X-men! Anyway with the team split [...]
September 26th, 2011 at 4:18 am
[...] is a bold new direction for the Panther, written by celebrated producer-director Reginald Hudlin and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry (Patient Zero, Punisher: Naked [...]
November 23rd, 2011 at 3:44 pm
[...] has been taken back to the priest inspired batman stuff that fans have clamored for since Hudlin took over. Me? I enjoyed every panel, sure we could nitpick till next year BUT it was an [...]
February 17th, 2012 at 2:27 am
[...] off kilter romance started not in Marvel Diva’s #1 but in Black Panther #13 by Reggie Hudlin where the black super team of Photon, Drumm, Blade, Luke Cage and Black Panther came together to [...]