#NowPlaying at GhettoManga HQ- the BASQUIAT documentary

As a difficult, dreadlocked, black hip hop-soaked painting student at the University of North Texas in the mid-nineties, I was constantly being compared to Jean-Michel Basquiat.  It was incredibly patronizing and irritating, but the more I learned about him, the more I enjoyed the comparison.  But I'm not a huge star getting 5 figures for my paintings, so instead of talking about me, let's look at this documentary about Basquiat that I ran into on YouTube today...

This dude ANDREW HUERTA is SICK with the pen... SICK, I SAY!!!

Because I am obviously a glutton for punishment, I took on the task of being a moderator of a Luke Cage fan art group on DeviantArt, and as a result, ran across this ill drawing by Andrew Huerta (Jinnrise, Pathfinder). Dude is insanely dope! Peep some art below, fam...

Calmplex encourages his peeps to subscribe to GhettoManga! (((airhorn)))

I recently sent out packages of stuff to my subscribers and fan club members, and have gotten some good feedback. This video is by Shadow of the Locust emcee, graf writer and cartoonist CALMPLEX, who encourages his viewers to check my work out, which I totally appreciate...

Blake Lethem speaks on the BIRTH of MF DOOM

My dude Jamar shared this youTube video interview of Blake Lethem, the artist who designed the original and second visages for the everyone's favorite masked microphone master, MF DOOM. As an artist who is infatuated with DOOM's vision and overall place in hip hop culture and history, I enjoyed this four minute clip featuring a well-informed insider's perspective on the super villain's mentality and evolution...

La Pena Second Skin Mural Project

My good friend Robert Trujillo and the rest of the Trust Your Struggle Collective are participating in a very special community art project to remove and replace an historic mural at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkley, California.

"East London Comics and Arts Festival" and "Moebius Tribute" Murals by PROBS

Moebius Tribute Mural by PROBS

Got an email about a couple dope murals today by that dude PROBS of End Of The Line art squadron. First up, a tribute to the late, great Jean Giraud aka Moebius (with love in there for MCA and Jimi as well, I think...).

FOOD ONE + BED HEAD = HELLYES

Bed Head Nylon Magazine ad by FOOD ONE

The beautification specialists at TIGI were not satisfied with their street credibility, so they went out and enlisted graf animal Jim Mahfood aka FOOD ONE to hook up some of their image with some limited edition hair care product bottles...

"Comics comes from graffiti", "Style is a capitalist invention" and other cool stuff Art Spiegelman says

Here's a cool interview where alt-comics juggernaut Art Spiegelman (Maus, Jack and the Box) drops all kindsa fresh quotable snippets o' thought for you to disagree with...

freestyle collective interviews LeSean Thomas

here's a really nice interview of animator and graphic novelist LeSean Thomas.

in this candid interview, LeS talks about animation and anime, his influences and the arc of his work over the last ten years. The image shown above is from CannonBusters, LeSean's opusworthy in-progress graphic novel. In the interview LeS gives a shout-out to two of our favorites here at ghettoManga, Corey Lewis (Sharknife, Peng) and ghettoManga Award-Winner Felipe Smith (MBQ, Peepo Choo).

holla!

samax.

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Watching INFAMY (dope Graf Documentary)

my man Jamar Nicholas (Detective Boogaloo) put me on to this fresh Graf documentary Infamy. check it out! (everybody say 'Thanks Jamar!')

Graf/Animation

this collabo between Italian graf artist Blu and emerging North Carolina painter David Ellis. this joint is sickness personified! peep it on youTube.

Krylon Killz

World-renowned Graf artist, NYC legend Iz The Wiz died from compications of kidney failure (from a lifetime of inhaling paint fumes) that he courageously battled since 1996. Iz has been a graf icon since 1972, and will never be forgotten. make sure your mask is on tight and throw one up for Iz, fam!
RIP...

TAGnificent!

So Much Love In Just One Can #1
by Jay Moreno
A contemporary graffiti and street art coloring book for kids and bombed out black book for their adults. This book features work by Pose2, Sew, Sye, PRVRT, Zimad and many more. Kid's need to learn about graffiti from someone other than the status quo that teaches them it's an eyesore. 50% of the profit goes to Pose2's Graffiti: The Art Form Class and the tri-city B-Boy BBQ. Printing on acid free 80lb paper makes this book a cool, fun activity for a rainy day.

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the Writing's on the Wall (LITERALLY)

Is Your Child a Tagger?
(click to enlarge) fam! this joint had me DYING! i don't know who did it... if you do, let me know and i'll credit it. [UPDATE: according to our clandestined sources, this actually came from a Graf Taskforce website in Cali... that makes it even MORE hilarious!]
holla!
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Deviation of the Day

Hello Graffity by Lysol Jones

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today's Deviation

kaj_elektricharot by ~psila
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this new Graf Doc got me bent!

Piece Of Mind trailer
i copped this off the Jungle45 blog fam! check them out!
-gM

If you remember this...

You Can't Stop The Prophet by Jeru the DamajaIf you remember this, then you're already familiar with the work of NYC-based illustrator Christian Cortes, whose work first reached me based on his ceedee designs for Jeru and other hip hop artists, but his art game is more expansive than that! he started out, like a lotta hip hop visual art cats, tagging. he's expanded into the magazine illustrating, fashion, galleries, and of course ceedee packaging."I‘m a Visual Artist working in New York City. I work as fulltime Art Director for an apparel company, as well as being a freelance illustrator and painter.
I have been working with record companies and the fashion industry for 15 years. Although my work can seem very clean and polished, i like to keep a sense of the hand done techniques still present...
My gallery painting style developed out of my graffitti background. I have been exploring combinations of graffitti typography with surrealism, abstraction, South American iconography and New York culture."
and he does comics too! peep his comicSpace page here. anyways, son is nice! for a peek at his catalog, go here, a'ight?
holla!
-gM

the DIRTY Style!

Dirty Hands The Art of David Choe
(i stole this off Khalid's mySpace profile...)
-gM