Artwork for DC Comics includes a run on Batman as regular penciller, Nightwing, Richard Dragon, and most recently Green Arrow.
He was enrolled as a Pre-Med student until the day he walked into Inorganic Chemistry and saw a 4-foot-long Schrödinger Wave equation scrawled on the chalk board.
McDaniel relocated to Pittsburgh (in the suburb Monroeville), and continued working as an electrical engineer with the Loftus Division of the Eichleay Corporation.
When the call came with an opportunity to work on Daredevil, he quit his engineering job and began his career as a comic book artist.
McDaniel's work tends to feature bold, bright colors against stark black, with a greater than average attention to fight scenes.