Rapper and comic creator Darryl McDaniels, known as DMC from seminal hip-hop outfit Run DMC celebrated over a decade of making comics with his company, Darryl Makes Comics, at New York Comic Con October 9-12. The influential artist signed books, promoted his new line of cookies, and participated in a panel discussion on the Black experience in fan-driven spaces titled, “Young, Gifted and Whack,” alongside Wayne Brady and a slew of other creatives. “Nobody knows my first love is comic books,” DMC told the New York Amsterdam News in an onsite interview early Sunday morning. “Before rock and roll … before hip-hop came to Queens and the Bronx, all I did was read, collect and draw comic books.”

Darryl, who debuted his first comic at New York Comic Con over ten years ago, has often been on hand

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