Hip Hop and Comics: Cultures Combining Flier

I just got an email from pop culture historian/journalist, DJ, and self-identified Hip Hop and Comics guy Patrick Reed, who is moderating a star-studded Hip Hop and Comics: Cultures Combining panel for San Diego Comic-Con's virtual convention next week. 

I'm excited to share the flier he sent me below.

VIDEO- Ron Wimberly talks comics, culture, and his upcoming magazine LAAB

The immortal Ron Wimberly breaks off a small portion of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding for the fine folks at Beyond the Longbox in this fresh bit of YouTubery...

Ron Wimberly drops one page comic about Brooklyn pop-op radio station for The New Yorker

It's been a minute since I blessed you with anything from that dude D-Pi (Ron Wimberly if you're nasty), but I had to take a second to drop this one page comic I swiped off The New Yorker's website.  It's a one page documentary about an independent radio station in Brooklyn...

"The Nib" on Kickstarter? Yeah, that's great... Wait!!! Did you say RON WIMBERLY?!?!?

The Nib is pretty great, and I think you should back their Kickstarter for their sweet anthology EAT MORE COMICS, but I'm too busy to pitch it to you. However, I do have just enough time to post these pages by number one ninja in the chain of command D-pi (look for him on your 2016 Presidential primary ballots as Ron Wimberly). Also, the folks at The Nib made a video or something...

Your man Ron Wimberly attacks GMOs with "Gratuitous Ninja: Tangerine"

 I was just saying something about artists being activists by nature earlier today... Nobody is living it better than the mighty D-Pi (the IRS calls him Ron Wimberly), who fired off this classic Gratuitous Ninja short as a salvo against Genetically Modified Foods. Before you brand him a bandwagon jumper, you should know Gratuitous Ninja: Tangerine was first published in 2002...

"Occupy Shadows" a one-page Gratuitous Ninja joint by the mighty D-Pi (Ron Wimberly to the newbies)

I stole this off Ron Wimberly's Gratuitous Ninja Tumblr, cause I was feeling selfish or something.

"BLACK DYNAMITE the Animated Series" Season One DVD/Blu-Ray Release date! (((airhorn)))

"Prince of Cats" character doodles by Ron Wimberly, plus "Prince of Cats" fan art by Chase Conley

I saw this sketch by D-pi (or as President Obama calls him, " Secretary of Defness, Ron Wimberly") of Balthazar, Ibrahim and Benvolio from his GhettoManga Award-winning Shakespearean hip hop graphic novel Prince of Cats and had to share it...

Brandon Graham, Ron Wimberly, and... Jeru? Yeah, I go there...

He leaps over lies in a single bound. Who is he? The black Prophet! One day, he got struck by Knowledge of Self. It gave him super scientifical powers... Wait. No...  I was thinking of someone else. This is the cover to the new issue of Brandon Graham's PROPHET. Well, the character technically belongs to Rob Liefeld, but Brandon has made the concept his own in a big way!

PREVIEW - new "BLACK DYNAMITE" comic from @IDWPublishing

Here at GhettoManga, we love Black Dynamite. We love the movie. We love the cartoon. We love the one-shot comic that Ars Nova self-published a while back. And now, we're excited to see that they've taken the comic over to IDW for a brand new #1, with that dude Ron Wimberly making nice on pencils. Peep...

"Don’t focus too much on the negative in someone else’s work... Make your work the counterargument to the work you don’t like." -Ron Wimberly

"Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining" Panel from New York Comic Con

Come get an education in the spirit of what GhettoManga is all about via the "Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining" Panel from New York Comic Con. The panel features a who's who of rap and comics cats including Kagan McLeod, Pete Rock, Jean Grae, D-Pi & DMC. Plus, there's a mention of Son of Bazerk. Just Sayin'...

In Stores NOW- "Prince of Cats" by Ron mother-effing Wimberly

It had to happen eventually: Those ruthless bastards at Vertigo have unleashed Ron Wimberly (known in the international intelligence community by his codename D-pi) on that unsuspecting sliver of the public that still reads comics.  The visual assault comes in the form of Wimberly's new graphic novel Prince of Cats, which is in stores right now...

This is some black James Bond type shit... DAMN YOU, RON WIMBERLY!!! (not really)

I'm so mad at myself right now for not being more like Ron Wimberly... I mean, not in a "Damn, he fly, I'ma dress like/ draw like/ talk like him" kinda way... more of a "Fuck! He draws comics all the time and I don't" kinda way. Here's a short story of his called Africa? that I shamelessly snatched off'a Behance...

(Romeo & Juliet) + Samurai sword warfare + hip hop = Ron Wimberly's "Prince of Cats"

I should really be drawing right now. So of course, I am sitting here sweating Prince of Cats, the upcoming hip hop remix of a that hoary olde Shakesperean classic Romeo & Juliet by the bard of the bristol boards Ron Wimberly (known the world over as D-Pi). Since I am not quite important enough to get DC/Vertigo's press releases sent to me directly, I just ripped some art off Wimberly's Tumblr, cuz that's how the eff I roll...

D-pi takes a Katana to Romeo & Juliet

The man who brought you Gratuitous Ninja and Sentences (his editor calls him Ron Wimberly) knows what you need, baby... and he's gonna give it to you...

Start the day off Right w/Ryu Black aka Mecca Godzilla

That dude Mecca Godzilla decided to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Street Fighter II the way any sane rapper should: by making a new Hip Hop opera album Perfect Heaven (天): The Ryu Black Musical, and this is the first video from the record.

Gratuitous Ninja VS Tsunami (Round Three)... FIGHT!!!!

 that dude Ron Wimberly (feared by the saint and sinner alike as the almighty D-Pi) has been representing lately, lending his drawing arm to the relief efforts in the land of the Rising Sun...

Gratuitous Ninja VS Tsunami (Round Two): FIGHT!!

Gratuitous Ninja boss D-pi (the ladies call him Ron Wimberly) continues the grind to assist with disaster relief in Japan. He's creating original art every day to be awarded to fans who donate $35 or more to the Red Cross via his website, and dammit, we think that's fly...

Gratuitous Ninja VS Tsunami: FIGHT!!!

Gratuitous Ninja creator D-pi (his momma named him Ron Wimberly) is urging his fans to join the work to assist Japan, and he will create original art every day to be awarded to fans who donate $35 or more to the Red Cross via his website...