(l to r) Don Cheadle and Denzel Washington from Devil in a Blue Dress
well, maybe not YOU, personally... but one of my friends on mySpace has been nagging me to hook up this Manchild:Birthday Boy promo piece as a tee-shirt so he can rock it. so, you know i can't resist the will of the people and stuff, so here it is! if you have no idea what Manchild is about, you obviously didn't buy the first issue of ghettoManga Quarterly (**cough** still on sale **cough), where i gave Birthday Boy chapter 1 it's magnificent full-color debut.
Cover artist extraordinaire Dave Johnson (100 Bullets) is takin' over the cover illustration for Unknown Soldier, one of my new favorite books, starting with issue 7 (shown here). failure to read this comic does not automatically mean you are stupid, but there may be a correlation... it's only on issue 3 people! get on board!
"They just wanna ruin yo record,
click the pic for a free preview of War Machine #1 starring Jim Rhodes (Ya know, the brother in Iron Man played by Terrence Howard). i don't wanna give anything away, but... lots of stuff gets blowed up! and seein' as Rhodey sees himself as a soldier and not a superhero... well, let's just say not everyone makes it out of their tank before it blows... anyways, War Machine #1 hits comic shops on Friday January 2nd. COP IT!
Illadelph resident James Cialella shot a man in the arm because his son would not stop talking during the Fincher joint The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. he then preceded to eat popcorn and watch the movie while everyone else fled the scene. the kid need not seek vengeance at the edge of a blade or anything... his dad's gonna live. and the toastmaster didn't even get to finish the movie... cop's hauled the film efficianado to the clink and charged him with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assorted weapons violations. now, i wouldn't normally wouldn't advocate gun violence over something so petty, but hey...
but better late than never, right?
uno
well, here are the nominees for this year's ghettoManga Awards. thanks to everybody who sent me their nominations! i've written blogs about most of the nominees... check 'em out by clicking here. and scrolling down!
-ghettoManga.com
so i'm cranking these out pretty good. now, i know what you're thinking, and yes, i'm working on Christmas Eve. I work from home, okay? don't worry, my wife and daughter are sleeping, A Christmas Story is playing across the living room, and i'm lap-topping in my favorite chair. so all is right with the world...
okay, so this this Chinese dude was spanking his monkey...
Feliz realidad para todos (Merry Reality to All) by ~Aisidedpipol
my man J-Biggs of Unkommon Kolors proves he is one of the illest renaissance man type cats to EVER do it... he shows his love for the works of Michealangelo by painting the master painters most famous work, the Sistine Chapel ceiling joint, on the brim of his fitted! in his own words"
J does all kindsa custom and printed gear as part of vaunted Dallas "Skurban" art crew, Unkommon Kolors. shower him with praise (and money), and he will favor you with his glory.
hood super star Charlie "Fab" Goubile has just about wrapped up Blackbird: Growing Pains #2 (of 3), and according to this teaser panel from part 2, the young vigilante will take a little time off from tappin' jaws to try and tap something else...
Some New York Rap Shit by Jim Mahfood and Mike Huddleston.
i haven't been posting as much as i'd like because i'm getting a lotta freelance work, including this project. it's a big one, so get used to seeing new pages for the next few months... incidentally, i think i'm getting faster, which is a good thing too! i expect to do a lot more of my own comics in '09 since i'm working the kinks out on this project, which i'm drawing, coloring and lettering... but i'm trying hard to keep up with the blog and magazine (can't forget about my people!). anyways, feel free to let me know what you think.
now this is something different! click the pic for a 9 page preview! here's the Sales Pitch from CBR:
that dude Frank Cho has a hardcover dropping called Jungle Girl:Season 1. collecting the series from Dynamite.
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word has it Hawkeye and Black Widow will be appearing in Iron Man 2, and if that doesn't make you geek out, you clearly haven't read The Ultimates, where Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch made the duo look like Neo and Trinity! in this version of the Avengers, Nick Fury uses Clint and Natasha as a secret black ops team that shoots first and asks questions later, if at all! they pretty much take out a whole building full of office workers (you later find out they were world-conquering aliens in disguise... but they were just as dead!) on their own, in a hail of arrows and bullets that has to be seen to be believed!
here's a page from my new freelance project.
i first picked up Mice Templar based on the cartoony brilliance of Micheal Avon Oeming (Powers, Hammer of the Gods), but eventually became enthralled in this story of village mice slaughtered and carted off into captivity by larger, more militaristic rats and the coming of age tale of young Karic, who receives visions from the gods that Wotan has chosen him to restore the order of the fallen Templar Knights.
writer Bryan Glass does a good job wielding medieval mythology in a way that it inspires wonder by intertwining the awe that mice would naturally have for larger animals like snakes, cats, and owls with the phenomena of mysticism, religion and prophecies. i'm not big on Lord of the Rings fantasy knock-offs or funny animal comics, but Oeming and Glass put such a stamp on these characters that it just comes off as good, old-fashioned world building!
is already available in hardcover. as one of those who read Mice Templar as individual comics, i will say it actually reads better as a collected volume. plus, the hardcover has tons of DVD-style extras too. 
Comic book artist and hip hop enthusiast Skottie Young (Wizard of Oz, New Warriors, Human Torch) waxes philosophical on his blog about the current state of hip hop, and his love for the classics, as evidenced by this fly EPMD warm-up ... this series of blogs is so ghettoManga i just HAD to link it!
award-winning Cartoonist and illustrator Lesean Thomas (Boondocks, Ben 10, Arkanium) has been working on his creator-owned hip hop comics project Cannonbusters for a minute... well, the end is nigh. we'll see a full color Cannonbusters OGN in 2009. b'lee dat!
when a Hawaiian scientist invents wristbands that can create weapons out of hard-light, he needs a a hook to woo investors, so he uses a mythological Shan-Tao order of monks from stories his gramps usedta tell him. but the Wu Shi Fa- "the Way of the Weapon"- is just a myth, right? at least that's what he believes until he's attacked by the enemies of the Shan Tao seeking to wipe The Way of the Weapon off the face of the Earth for good! you can read The Weapon, a 96 page story (seperated into 4 issues) for FREE on drunkDuck.com
i was checking out Ultraviolet Underground and found out that the US Government has granted $4 million dollars to a UC Irvine research project to create Synthetic Telepathy for "paralysis and stroke victims"... oh, and there might be military applications, too...
Unlike Professor X's mutant-locating Cerebro, you won't need telepathic powers of your own to use this technology, but that doesn't mean just ANYBODY can use it. “Such a system would require extensive training for anyone using it to send and receive messages,” D’Zmura says.
Incognito #1 is coming in January from the same team that brings that fire on books like Criminal and Sleeper, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips...
sketch of Iron Mike Tyson by samax (for the sketchbook Allstars sketchjam: Fighters). watercolor brush pens.
i just finished reading King City
by Brandon Graham... holy crap! this book is the joint! Joe is a Cat Master, like a Green Lantern, except instead of a power ring, he wields a cat that can manifest multiple different powers depending on the injections he gives it. although well-trained, Joe is a listless thief (a cat burglar, if you will) and drifter until he gets caught up in some drama and shit gets real!
), King City is JUST what you're looking for (i mean, you ARE reading a blog called ghettoManga)! this 192 page OGN dropped in '07 from Tokyopop... Brandon has since been tapped by Oni Press to do another Multiple Warhedz, and was 20 or so pages shy of completing King City 2 the last time i checked...
