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Kinnard, Rupert, 1954-
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1954-
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Rupert Kinnard was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1954. In 1979, he earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University. That same year, he moved to Portland, Oregon. He did art design for Willamette Week, illustrations for The Cascade Voice, and later became the art director for the newspaper Just Out. In 1996, he was injured in a car collision and was subsequently paralyzed from the waist down. Beginning in 1977, he wrote comic books featuring Black superheroes of his own creation, the Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé.
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