WAIL unveils Limited edition RZA & HIERO prints

WAIL (When Art Imitates Life, the Cali art massive behind the monumental RZA and Hieroglyphics art pieces I told you about a while back) unveiled some ILL new prints for your art collection...

Hieroglyphics limited edition Canvas joint

yeah, that's Del standing next to The Valley of the Kings, WAIL's new limited edition print featuring the mighty Hieroglyphics crew.

Celebrate 20 Years of the RZA

what up fam! here's the promo for RZA's mysterious new 20th Anniversary Canvas project Victory or Death/When Art Imitates Life click the pic to sign up for the email promo. It also signs you up for all kinds of contests, and leaks little snippets and hints as to just what the project is. What it does reveal is that there will be a limited run of canvases by and/or featuring the RZA, and that more will be revealed later. peep the youtube doc for more interview and movie clips w/RZA and King Tech (from The World Famous Wake Up Show) talking about hipHop, movies and his book, The Tao of Wu. 

bong bong...

-gM
UPDATE! Here's the commemorative poster and the painting:

 you're welcome. to cop 'em, click here.

Better LATE than Never...

the seeds of ghettoManga were laid back when Wu-Tang Clan first dropped Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) circa 1993, with it's heady mix of radio-unfriendly beats, grimy street life stories, and massive roster of emcees who clearly consumed more cartoons, comics and kung-fu flicks than the recommended daily allowance! my first exposure to the Wu was the video for M.E.T.H.O.D. Man, which starts out by naming the Clan members one by one. i immediately said to myself, "These guys need to be in comics!"

When Wu-Tang was at the height of their popularity, heads were clamoring for a Wu-Tang comic, which they did with the 1999 Image effort The Nine Rings of Wu-Tang. only problem being, it was wack... Nine Rings took place in a fantasy setting, not the Staten Island hood their music grew out of, and the characters bore little resembblance to the Clan we knew and loved... i mean, why didn't they just take these guys as-is and throw them into supernatural circumstances, creating a comic firmly grounded in their ghetto appeal?
well that's exactly what they did in the new 96 page OGN Method Man, from Grand Central Publishing. like that video that turned me on to Wu-Tang so long ago, this book takes advantage of the grimy, hood texture of the Ticalion Stallion. Method hooked up with David Atchison (Occult Crimes Taskforce) and Sanford Greene (ArtXilla Tasty Treats, Army of Darkness)to create a a tale that mostly satisfies where previous Wu comics let me down. the new joint casts Method as a disgraced and exiled member of an order of killer priests who uses his arcane skills to keep the hood safe from things that go bump in the night. while the book is far from perfect, i feel safe saying that if this kinda book had come out back when Wu held hip hop in their hand, it would'a been a home run! as it is, the Method Man creative team turned out a book that would make a great movie... you can't ask more from a graphic novel than that! COP IT on amazon.com
holla!

-ghettoManga.com
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Somebody Ring the Fire Alarm When Johnny Storms...

your man John Blaze, aka Johnny Storm aka Iron Lung aka John-John Phenomenon (otherwise known as rapper Method Man from the mighty Wu-Tang Clan) hooked up with David Atchison (Occult Crimes Taskforce) and Sanford Greene (ArtXilla Tasty Treats, Army of Darkness)to drop Method Man, a 96 page OGN last summer. i had no idea about this until today, but i just ordered it on amazon, so once i get a chance to read it I'll let you know how it was. but the reviews on Amazon.com were pretty good, so i wanted to make ya'll aware, in case you needed some good ghettoManga-style joints to read right away.

here's the sales pitch from amazon:

An ancient evil of unfathomable power plots the unspeakable--the destruction of the mortal realm and beyond. Man's only hope lies in Peerless Poe, a hard-luck private eye with a taste for booze and a magnetic attraction to danger. A former member of the clandestine Order of the Sacred Method, Poe must forge an uneasy alliance with those who exploited him against enemy bent on global annihilation...

so look for that review of the book soon. if you can't wait, click the pic to order your own, cousin!

-ghettoManga.com

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