What started as a dream for J.D. Sutphin has grown into one of the region’s most popular events of the year. Now in its ninth year, Big Lick Comic Con is back and bigger than ever.

Baucom passed away at age 69 due to complication with breast cancer, but her friends and family remember her as a proud comic book lover who enjoyed talking to anyone and everyone.

Nearly twelve thousand comic book fans were out in Roanoke today for the second day of Big Lick Comic-Con.

Big Lick Comicon comes to Berglund Center in August.

Known for her feminist themes and often brutally frank, highly personal and self-critical work, American cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb has died at the age of 74.