Run-D.M.C.’s Darryl McDaniels on Why Marvel Was Always Better Than DC Comics

For 30 years now, Run-D.M.C.’s music has been ubiquitous. As rap’s premier group of the ’80s — which saw their hits becoming staples in seemingly every coming-of-age movie — Run-D.M.C., and tracks like “It’s Tricky” and “Walk This Way,” have burrowed themselves into our brains. With members Rev Run, 50 (née Joseph Ward Simmons), and […]

DMC Saves the World

By: Savas Abadsidis “I’m the king of rock, there is none higher Sucker MC’s should call me sire… DMC stands for devestating mic control You can’t touch me with a ten foot pole… My name is Darryl, you can call him D You can call me Darryl Mack, or you can call him DMC People always […]

Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels is doing something “way way cooler”

By Eric Renner Brown – All too often, the cycle in which washed-up celebrities cash in with pulpy memoirs and as guests on reality TV series repeats itself. But hip-hop legend Darryl McDaniels, a founder of Run-D.M.C., is doing something way, way cooler. McDaniels has loved comics since he read them as a kid in […]

Darryl “DMC” McDaniels Explains Why He Got Into The Comic Book Business

By Andrew Steinbeiser Before one of the world’s most iconic hip-hop artists even knew how to throw down a beat, he was something else entirely: A comic book geek. Speaking with Bloomberg TV, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run-DMC explained how comic book superheroes were the first passion in his life. A self-described “geeky, nerdy kid,” […]

‘DARRYL MAKES COMICS’ MAKES HEROIC DEBUT WITH 1980S NYC-BASED “DMC”

Kiel Phegley, Staff Writer While comics has seen its share of “famous fanboys” arrive from movies and TV in recent years, few media personas have been kicking around the convention scene as long as Darryl “DMC” McDaniels. The legendary hip hop MC has been preaching his love of comics since his days as part of […]

Run-DMC’s rapper Darryl McDaniels launches

The newly minted comic company, Darryl Makes Comics, is ready to debut its first novel, ‘DMC’ at New York Comic Con in October. Darryl McDaniels portrays himself as a superhero instead of a rapper in the graphic novels. BY ETHAN SACKS Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC is going back to his childhood passion – comic books […]

DMC of Run DMC is Bringing Real NY Flavor to Comics

Historically, comics have never accurately embodied the world we live in.  Geekdom is much more diverse than The Big Bang Theory would have you believe, and many in the nerd community are tired of having a universe that does not fairly represent our lives.  At the same time, the image that the media feeds us […]