Showing posts with label Brotherman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brotherman. Show all posts
BROTHERMAN added to the Smithsonian!
This BROTHERMAN:REVELATIONS promo vid gave me a shot in the arm!
DVD REVIEW- "White Scripts and Black Supermen" directed by Jonathan Gayes, PhD
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| White Scripts and Black Supermen cover art by John Jennings. |
Brotherman speedpaint for the process junkies out there...
Charlie Goubile's BLACKBIRD graphic novel is OUT NOW!!!
If you've been reading GhettoManga very long, you already know I straight cheerleads for Charlie "Fab" Goubile, and especially for his martial arts vigilante comic Blackbird. Now Goubile has collected his first miniseries into the brand new trade paperback Blackbird:Growing Pains, and it looks really dope!
Harlem Book Fair: Black Comix Discussion on C-SPAN!
The authors of Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture
(John Jennings and Damian Duffy, if you ain't already know), as well as other luminaries in black comics and prose like Dawud Anyabwile (Brotherman) and L.A. Banks (Vampire Huntress
) are participating in a conversation about literacy in the digital age. The panel discussion is taking place at the Harlem Book Fair, so if you're in the area, check it out! It will also be broadcast on C-SPAN tonight July 17 at 6.45 pm. If you don't have cable, don't worry! We gotchoo...
(John Jennings and Damian Duffy, if you ain't already know), as well as other luminaries in black comics and prose like Dawud Anyabwile (Brotherman) and L.A. Banks (Vampire Huntress) are participating in a conversation about literacy in the digital age. The panel discussion is taking place at the Harlem Book Fair, so if you're in the area, check it out! It will also be broadcast on C-SPAN tonight July 17 at 6.45 pm. If you don't have cable, don't worry! We gotchoo... Dawud breaks down Brotherman
The exhibit will be up at the Auburn Avenue Research Library in Atlanta until June 30, 2010
New BROTHERMAN joint in the works!
peep some rough sketch work from the upcoming new Brotherman: Revelation graphic novel! get more info at brothermancomics.com i'm sure... i for one can't wait to return to Big City!
Brotherman's Origin
Dawud Anyabwile, co-creator and illustrator of the Brotherman:Dictator of Discipline breaks bread with Jeff Johnson of JJ ON ATLANTA television show. in this interview, Dawud reflects on the origins of Brotherman and the place his books have in the landscape of black comics subculture. read more about Brotherman here.holla!
-samax
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ATL stand UP!
if you're gonna be in the Atlanta on August 1st, you need to g'wan get down to Drawing from the Soul, being put on by Brotherman Comics. if you've never read any of their comics, trust me when i tell you that you NEED them joints in your LIFE! the complete run of Brotherman was recently released in a three volume TPB set that you need to get your hands on, fam! swing by BrothermanComics.com for the 411 on the books and the show!holla!
-samax
Everything's Gonna Be Alright...
there's a pretty good chance that the blog you're reading now wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline. not only did it inspire me, but tons of other cats like me site this comic as a serious influence on them as creative people. black kids who wanted to draw comics all dreamed of growing up to draw white superheroes before this book hit. in Brotherman, Dawud Anyabwile and Guy Sims created a character that that was every bit as tough and heroic as any I'd ever seen, and crafted a world as rich and diverse as there could possibly be... and every single good guy, bad guy, politician, cop, hostage, and hot chick in this comic were 100% black! not only that, but this comic debuted in 1990, at the height of hipHop's cultural brilliance, so the inhabitants of Brotherman's fictional, but all-too-real Big City are spilling over with more old/new school hip hop swagger than a YO! MTV Raps marathon! Densely and lovingly scripted by Guy Sims, the art stands up against anything you want to put up against it. 
anyways, i could go on and on about what this book has meant to me, but why should you care about that? what you SHOULD care about is that this is the most important piece of comics history you never heard of. Dawud Anyabwile is the most influential black comicbook artist ever. this book is dope, and now they have collected the entire run into three Trade Paperbacks, over 100 pages each, that will drop simultaneously (that just means "at the same time"... YOU MUST LEARN!) on March 1st. click a picture to go over to BrothermanComics.com and cop em, fam! i don't care WHO you are (don't gimme that "but Samax, I'm not black... i can't relate to this" crap!), you need to get that joint, ASAP! and tell them you heard about it from ghettoManga, cousin!holla...
-ghettoManga.com
comics.hipHop.news.art.culture
coincidence..?
Brotherman:Dictator of Discipline has sold over 750K books independently since its release in 1990, and is sited as a major influence among black comics creators (including me). series creator Dawud Anyabwile posted this picture on his blog entitled "Hancock/Brotherman - Mysteriously look alike?" implying that the character design for Hancock was ripped off from his Brotherman design.what do YOU think?
-gM
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