Comic books

NBC New York’s Kay Angrum reports from NY Comic Con, talking to comic book and Funko Pop collectors, showing us the coolest cosplayers and more after the event resumed following a 2-year COVID hiatus.

In one art therapy session, Led Bradshaw asked his autistic son Jake to draw himself as a superhero. The drawings inspired the central character and other heroes comic “Jake Jetpulse.”

One of the few copies of the comic book that introduced Superman to the world has sold for a super-sized, record-setting price.

Led Bradshaw’s son Jake was 3 years old when he was diagnosed with autism. Art therapy for Jake led to inspiration for Bradshaw, a professional comic book artist. In a new episodes of Craig Melvin’s “Dads Got This,” Bradshaw told Craig about how his son’s passion led to the development of a comic book series, “Jake Jetpulse.” Five books...

Nurses fighting the coronavirus pandemic are the heroes in a new Marvel comic book called “The Vitals: True Nurse Stories.” Sean Ryan, a Marvel writer, and Amanda Belcastro, a registered nurse who was featured in the comic, joined LX News to talk about why scrubs are the new capes.

For decades, the word “superhero” brought to mind characters like Superman, Spider-Man and Batman. All straight white men. But that’s been changing. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories visited the Black Comic Book Festival in NYC this January to learn why diverse superheroes are so important.

Native American comic book fans hope a new Marvel anthology by Native artists and writers will jump-start authentic representation in mainstream superhero fare

While San Diego Comic-Con International is canceled this summer, a virtual version of the beloved pop culture expo is in the works.

San Diego Comic-Con International 2020 won’t take place this summer at the San Diego Convention Center, but an “at home,” virtual version of the beloved event is in the works.

The comic book shop has long been a wall-to-wall repository for tales of world-threatening cataclysms and doomsday dystopias but it has never before been drawn into a fight for survival like the coronavirus pandemic.

San Diegans told NBC 7’s Dave Summers it feels like summer is completely cancelled.