Micah Wright

Article summary

Micah Ian War Dog Wright (born 1969) is a Native American writer who has worked in film, television, animation, video games and comic books. Wright started his career at Nickelodeon where he was an intern, script supervisor, and also a staff writer on The Angry Beavers. It was at Nickelodeon that he became friends with Jay Lender, with whom he would collaborate as a writing partner on numerous projects across various media. Wright got his start in comics with the short lived Stormwatch: Team Achilles. He came to public attention with his anti-war satire posters, which were later compiled into the bookYou Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want. After setbacks, Wright shifted his focus to video games. He co-wrote the titles Destroy All Humans! and Robocalypse with Jay Lender. A member of Writers Guild of America West, he chaired the Video Game Writers Caucus and helped establish the WGA’s first Video Game Writing Award in 2007. He also co-founded the WGA's Native American and World Indigenous Writers Committee. In 2015, he published Duster, a WWII-themed graphic novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter. He also consulted on virtual reality project TheBlu, which lead to a teaching role in virtual reality filmmaking.…

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1. date of birth: 1969 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of foundation: 2014 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. publication date: 2006 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. publication date: 2015 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. publication date: 2015 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
6. publication date: 2005 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
7. release date: 2003 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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2. The record states that the date of birth is "1969". What evidence would count against this claim?
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6. The record states that the publication date is "2015". What evidence would count against this claim?
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8. The record states that the release date is "2003". What evidence would count against this claim?
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1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370960226