Cupid (Pay*Triotic) by samax.
it's been a rough summer. in what turns out to be just the latest celebrity death, Steve "Air" Mcnair was found shot to death in a condo in Nashville. i still don't know the circumstances of his death. McNair played quarterback in the NFL for 13 years, was a four-time Pro Bowler, and took the Tennessee Titans all the way to the Superbowl in 2000, where they fell just short to the high-powered St. Louis Rams 23-16. McNair, who retired after the 2008 season, was 36.
Was It Good For You? by samax
Make Hoops, Not War by samax.
Buffalo Soul by samax
The Soldier by samax.
Gorgeous Destroyer (America) by samax.
Captain America by samax. watercolor brush pens on computer paper.
Abandon Ship by Busta Rhymes w/Rampage
yo! click to enlarge this Mock ad for Rom and Kate Plus Eight that i swiped off'a Splash Page! my wife watches the actual show about people who have 8 toddlers on one of those all-women channels... they been in the news because the pops snapped and they're getting divorced or something... but who cares about THAT! this ad (which will actually appear in ToyFare #145) subs Rom in for don dada, and he'll take care of business like only a Spaceknight can!
for the most part my day has been pretty blahzay... but that was before i found out David Alan Grier was dropping a book called Barack Like Me: The Chocolate Covered Truth. this pretty much made my day! i imagine it will be a book full of political parody tapping the wealth of jokes that comes from the worst administration ever handing the keys to the nation over to the first black President. Grier's special brand of funny works in sketch comedy and in stand-up, so we'll see how it flies in print. honestly, Grier had me sold with the title! David Alan Grier's new book Barack Like Me hits shelves at bookstores nationwide October 6, 2009!
for all the readers in or around the ATL today, ManoAManoArtShow.com is hosting Hip Hop VS Reggae, an dope Cultural Art Show & Get Down ya nah gwan' miss. click the pic to get more info from the fine folks at Mano A Mano, plairs... 
"You know that thing where a kid is caught smoking and he's made to chain-smoke until he pukes? I think that happened with food for me. I'm off the stuff for good, I swear."
I See You Hatin' by samax
here's a link to this FRESH Philly the Kid Wallpaper, courtesy of that dude LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters, Blokhedz, Nervous Breakdowns, Ben 10:Alien Force). LeSean is so ghettoManga, it ain't even funny, so support his work wherever you find it fam!
Mike v. Chris? by Marcel Comics. (click to enlarge)
Is it too soon for a Michael Jackson Tribute comic? no problem. this won't be out until October! 
after a long hiatus, that dude Nat Landry returns to the blogosphere with more of his trippy hipHop/comics hybrid drawings! the young cartoonist and illustrator graciously contributed to the first ghettoManga Quarterly Magazine with his Devil Kitty and Violent Amphibious Beaver Boy and he's blessing the next two issues with a two part Bring The Pain Jermaine story that will snap a hater in half! right now on his blog, he's on a EmCee Vs Samurai kick (talk about a win-win)! take a minute and get familiar with this dude... he's gonna be a household name if i have to make him famous myself!
Well folks, if all the green avatars on Twitter has taught us anything it is this: nobody likes voter fraud. but, it looks like that is exactly what we've got, as somebody thought they could cheat their way into the winner circle of the MF DOOM ART CONTEST. yeah right! like i'm gonna give my hard-earned $100 and the cover of my beloved magazine to a f*@&ing cheater? yeah, tell me another one...
finished page 2 of The World As You Know It: Permanent Residents, and chugging along. still haven't hit the stride i want to hit, but it will come. I'm actually pretty happy with this page, but i'm looking forward to the point where they start coming out faster. since this story has more spooky/scary elements than the last (it has a ghost story theme to it), i'm excited about getting to the scary parts. don't get TOO excited, it's not gonna be like Saw 7 or anything! it's still gotta be pretty tame to pass the client's standards (their biggest customers are school districts), but i think i can get it done in a way that's fun for me, and that they are happy with as well! the script is good (BIG plus!), so i feel good about it...
Black Cat, Hellcat, Firestar and Photon (aka Captain Marvel aka Monica "I used to be in the Avengers" Rambeau) team up to be four times fantastic in Marvel Divas. i just read the 7 page preview over at CBR, and it's hilarious! here's the sales pitch:
today we lost the greatest entertainer the world has ever seen. Micheal Jackson died today of a heart attack. the internet has been hot with rumors all day that he was carted off to UCLA Medical Center, and it was just confirmed that he did not recover.
Okay, so for the record, there's a ghettoManga Facebook page now. if you're reading this, your ass is definitely a fan (don't fight it... just don't be a stan. y'know, unless that's like, your name and stuff...), so if you're on Facebook, g'wan over there and become a fan. it will be more interactive than this blog is, so you can post your own comics, hiphop, movie reviews, and other links and what-not. not asking you to stop coming here, just giving you OPTIONS!
i haven't seen Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen yet, but a lot of noise amongst my Twitter peers has been brought up about Skids and Mudflap, "The Twins" who reportedly call up mad stereotypical/racist references, similar to Phantom Menace's much-maligned Jar-Jar. i'm sure i'll have an opinion once i see the movie, but i'm curious... what do you guys think? have you seen it? was it harmless, or offensive? both?
so i got sidetracked a little with all the artshows, Father's day, and all the other stuff (all of which i'm thankful for), but now i'm back to full steam on comics! this panel preview is from the freelance joint i'm workin' on for a major client (my 2nd assignment with them). expect more soon. i really like this client, and they like my work. hopefully, all goes well on their sales side so i can get tidal waved with more work from them! anyways, you can always see more by clickin' the tag TWAYKI below or on the sidebar...
the prototypical Talk Show Sidekick and game show host, Ed Mcmahon (The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Star Search) died in a Los Angels hospital at 86. RIP big guy... (more on this here).
They only have a black president in the movies or comics when there's gonna be some kind of catastrophe (see The Fifth Element, Deep Impact, 2012), so i guess that's why everybody's losing their mind now... Iran is Buggin' Again, writing a drama with it's so-called elections that's stranger than fiction. Chechnyan gangster/terrorists suicide bombed a provincial Russian President into critical condition. meanwhile North Korea is feeling SOO Nuclear right now, and has a ruler who's just DYING to go Kaizen Gamorra on your ass... it's real in the field, son! it's almost like years of programming have conditioned the human race to think of black dudes as either a cause for alarm, or the ultimate go-to guy that can snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat on some Michael Jordan ish! hell, maybe they just see President Obama as some kinda big, black good luck charm.
the good news is that if life is immitating art, Black presidents tend to kick ass at handling world-threatening crisis situations! Obama has already saved superheroes in comics almost as much as they've saved him, Morgan Freeman quarterbacked the salvation of the human race in Deep Impact, and at least President Zeus was lucky Bruce Willis had his back in Fifth Element, right? so as much as Rush 'nem wish Obama's presidency will be a failure, if the collective unconscious has been telling anybody anything, they might need to stock up on their Haterade. Brotherman's here... Everything's gonna be alright!
art by Goldi Gold.
"BARACK.... I AM YOUR FATHER!"
On a whim, i decided to check OldeTowne Comix's Website and i was shocked to realize they had dropped that Rachel Rage OGN right under my freakin' nose, and i didn't even KNOW it! well i would be remiss if i let that stand, so i went ahead and ordered a copy. 'cause as my readers already know, i luvs me some Rachel Rage! lookin' forward to peepin' it and givin' you a review! in the event you don't wanna wait (and why would you, right?), you can order it yourself here in color or black and white! in case you are in North Carolina this weekend (you could be!), drop in on HeroesCon in Charlotte and find Rachel Rage writer/artist John Aston (here's where he is), and tell him I was geeking about his book on ghettoManga!
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