NS: DC Comics' 2022 Pride Anthology Gets a Boost From the Best Batman Ever

[cygnia]

"Kevin Conroy, who’s voiced the Dark Knight in the original Animated Series, Justice League, and a host of other animation and video games—and is an openly gay man—will be telling his own, “personal” story titled “Finding Batman.” According to DC editor Andrea Shea, Conroy’s first foray as a comics writer is a doozy: “2022 marks 30 years of Batman: The Animated Series so it only felt right to honor Kevin Conroy, THE voice of Batman for multiple generations. And we were FLOORED when he delivered a deeply moving personal story in collaboration with J. Bone and Aditya Bidikar.”"

https://gizmodo.com/dc-pride-anthology-2022-kevin-conroy-batman-lgbtq-1848788702

Comments

[beyondthefringe]

Neat! I never knew he was gay.
Kevin Conroy is SO "the voice of Batman" for so many of us.

[starwolf_oakley]

I learned Kevin Conroy was gay in a 2016 New York Times article about The Killing Joke animated movie.

At 17, Mr. Conroy began attending Juilliard on a scholarship, at one point sharing an apartment with Robin Williams and Frances Conroy. (A room with Christopher Reeve, the future Superman, was available, but unaffordable at $200 a month.) In the late 1980s, his stage career culminated with a Broadway production of “Eastern Standard,” in which he played a TV producer secretly living with AIDS.

“I went to so many funerals that I felt such a sense of obligation to do it right,” said Mr. Conroy, who is gay. During a moment alone onstage, he would break down. “Every night I would just wail, feeling all the pain. I couldn’t not feel it. It was a scream of, ‘Look what’s happening to us! Help!’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/arts/television/batman-the-killing-joke-kevin-conroy-alan-moore.html?searchResultPosition=1

[icon_uk]

A remarkable man, and a voice that IS Batman, so am looking forward to the story he wants to tell