Kenneth J Willis was Born to John and Shirley Mae Willis on January   in Jackson Mississppi bornHe graduate from Jackson State University in  with a BS Degree in Mass Communication with a major in Radio Television Film and Photography   After being a Cartoonist for his Alumni and The Legendary Jackson Advocate Newspaper He later moved to Hollywood in   in order to turn his childhood Cartoon super hero character Blade by Stan Lee And Marv Wolveman into a major motion picture He  worked for Chuck Berris Productions in  at Gower Studios where he being to develop new inventions    One day while watching a Lakers and Chicago Bull game between Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson in  the same year his son Keenen Willis was born he was inspired to invent the Hot Net LoopUHoop HandHeld Basketball Gameand Clothing Line to finance a movie called Blade   Which was also televised on the Regis  Kathy Lee Show Good Morning America and numerous of newspapers and magazines on his journey as an inventor he was able to get President Clinton and VicePresident Al Gore to play with his LoopUHoop HandHeld Basketball Game at the White House in Washington DC   The LoopUHoop toy was sold worldwide and was selected by the International Inventors Association as the number one invention for the year of  where he was later on inducted into the Black Inventors Museum in  who show cased his invention in  states and well over  cities across the United States America  In  Kenneth J Willis accomplished his child hood dream  in making Blade a motion picture When he single handedly pitched and picked actor Wesley Snipes to play the cartoon character Blade at a beach party in Marina Del Rey Who later on persuaded New Line Cinema to turn Blade into an full length motion picture   Even though neither actor Wesley Snipes nor New Line Cinema gave Mr Willis any cash or credit He was still proud of the fact that Wesley Snipes kept his word with him when he promise Kenneth J Willis that he would in fact turn the cartoon super hero Blade into a full length motion picture He is currently shopping his new screenplay called Mask Men to the Hollywood studios where hopes that his new screenplay will be as successful as Blade