A writer of comic books, prose, and animation, Ivan Cohen is best known for introducing the character “Kid Quick” — a non-binary superhero who would later be established as the future inheritor of the Flash mantle — to the DC Comics universe, a move that attracted international press attention when the character debuted in late 2020. In 2022, Cohen returned to the character, co-writing Kid Quick and their superhero team, Teen Justice, in a story in the GLAAD Award-nominated DC PRIDE 2022 and the six-part MULTIVERSITY: TEEN JUSTICE miniseries, collected together in trade paperback the following year.

Cohen’s more recent writing work includes the Ringo Award-winning THE BATMAN AND SCOOBY-DOO MYSTERIES comic book series, the bestselling graphic-novel adaptation of 2021’s Space Jam: A New Legacy, and multiple comics for DC Comics and Marvel featuring members of the Justice League and the Avengers, as well as episodes of the animated series Teen Titans GO! and Beware the Batman.

Cohen has written multiple storybooks for children and adults, among them the film adaptation BATMAN RETURNS: ONE DARK CHRISTMAS EVE – THE ILLUSTRATED HOLIDAY CLASSIC and THE BIG BANG THEORY: A MATTER OF FRIENDSHIP.  September 2024 sees the release of the Library of America’s THE MAD FILES: WRITERS AND CARTOONISTS ON THE MAGAZINE THAT WARPED AMERICA’S BRAIN!, a collection featuring an original essay by Cohen,  titled “The Golden Age Is Twelve Dept.”, among contributions by Ron Chast, Jonathan Lethem, and others.

Additionally, Cohen has produced two television documentaries on comic books and superheroes; and, as a development executive at DC Entertainment, helped launch the long-running “DC Universe” line of animated movies. He also supervised development of TV and movie projects including Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Red, Human Target, and the feature film Watchmen.

A graduate of Stuyvesant High School and Northwestern University, Cohen lives in Harlem, New York, with his wife and their son. He has been called “amazing” and “genius” by The New York Times, though some would argue that, since those kudos were actually rankings in the newspaper’s “Spelling Bee” game, it would be misleading to use them in an author bio. The amazing genius humbly disagrees.