You might not have had this on your 2025 pop culture bingo card, but one of the hottest comic book illustrators on the planet lives right here in North Alabama.

A California first-grader was punished for a drawing she made at school, resulting in a federal lawsuit that probes whether the First Amendment extends to the first-grade classroom.

ShaRee Castlebury from Lawton, Oklahoma brought a plain white dress to school and let her students draw pictures on it with fabric markers. She then wore the colorful frock on the last day.