Now in it’s fourth year, Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo staked its claim as LA’s answer to San Diego Comic Con. The pop culture event featured numerous panels, contests and of course cosplayers. Held at the ...

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Running now through Sunday in downtown Los Angeles is Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo 2015, the annual assembly of all things pop culture. SHH was on the scene and, in the gallery viewer, below, you can ...

Originally beginning conlife as Stan Lee's Comikaze, which then became LA ComicCon, the Los Angeles event is rebranding and changing their name again. Announced just the morning, the show will now be ...

Comic book conventions have exploded in popularity in recent years. Box offices are dominated by superhero, sci-fi and fantasy films, and it’s a good time to be a nerd. With superbeings and spaceships ...

Stormtroopers, the Joker, Gandalf the Grey, Data from “Star Trek” — no, this wasn’t West Hollywood on the night of Oct. 31, although it looked pretty similar. It was “Stan Lee’s Comikaze” — a sort of ...

If San Diego can hold the biggest comic-con in the universe, then why can't Los Angeles have its own large-scale pop culture event? Now it finally does. Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo 2014, held October 31 ...

Comic books, superheroes, and geek culture are big business these days. As film franchises and TV shows rooted in that culture increasingly dominate mainstream entertainment, so too have comic book ...