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As a young girl, Jazmin Truesdale had a love for science fiction and action stories. But she never saw characters that looked like herself on store shelves.

For our continuing "Changing the Game" series, we are highlighting Jazmin Truesdale, the CEO of Aza Entertainment and creator and writer of Aza Comics. Her comic book series is centered around diverse female superheroes. She joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the Aza Universe and her hope of changing the way women are written in entertainment.

This millennial didn’t see diverse women represented in comic books, so she wrote her own—now it’s her full-time job By: Ashton Jackson  Jazmin Truesdale has always loved reading comic books. But as she grew up, she noticed that female superheroes weren’t getting the same attention, storylines or film adaptations that male superheroes were. So she created her own diverse, all-women superhero universe — and it’s now her primary source of income.  “I remember going to a comic store and seeing a Wonder Woman comic. I...

Black woman creates all-women comic book universe so young girls have superheroes to idolize By: Vani Khokar   Women have historically been portrayed in comic books as either damsels in distress or hypersexualized objects of male desire. Moreover, very few women superheroes do not get the same attention and popularity as their male counterparts. Jazmin Truesdale, an avid reader of comic books, realized this discrepancy and decided to create her own diverse and inclusive comic books with an all-women superhero universe. She told CNBC, "I remember going...