DAMN YOU, MARVEL!!! DAMN YOOOOOU!!!!

hey everyone! hope you guys are having a great day! i promise NOT to ruin your day complaining about how Marvel is keeping me from buying The Destroyer by slapping the camel's-back-breaking price of $3.99 on it. i'm not even gonna go into how at a time like this they don't need to try and bleed dry the people who are basicly holding the industry on our shoulders... what i AM gonna tell you is that CBR has posted a SWEET 5 page preview of issue #3 up for your viewing pleasure, all for special recession price of FREE! click the pic to claim your stimulus, cousin! in case you want to spend four bucks on a freaking comicbook (after all, it is pretty freakin' AWESOME), The Destroyer #3 is in stores now!

holla!

-samax

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Battle ROYALLE... this would be 2 FRESH!!

Mos Def innerview with Angie Martinez. Mos challenges "the greatest" to do BATTLE... wait til you hear who would be on his 5 man team (yeah, i'm GEEKIN'!)

Quote of the Day

"Go forward!!! Fail... So what? Fall... So what?!

Fall better!! Fail better!

Just keep movin! Relentless..."

-Rev Run

heeere we go (again)

i'm on to the next comic. this is for the same client. since they REALLY liked the digital drawing/coloring style, i'm sticking with it.if some of these characters look familiar to you, it's because this is a prequel/spin-off story from the one i drew for them this Spring (The World as You Know It, Vol 2)... this one stars some of the supporting cast from that previous story, but about 15 years earlier. this is going in a totally different direction, so don't sweat the fact that you haven't read the other one...
if you're tuning in to vote on the MF DOOM ART CONTEST, relax, you didn't miss it... voting will start tomorrow. daddy needed to focus on making that money today!
holla!
-samax
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Your Evolution on Wax

that dude DT from Clan Destined dropped his new plate Nowhere, NowHere on Domination Recordings. this highly conceptual album has tracks with Icue, Roderick Stewart, and Mitch D. a sampler of the album is available for free download here, and you can cop the record on iTunes, Emusic, Rhapsody, and Amazon.com.
don't miss a chance to cop some dope hip hop!
holla!
-samax
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MM...FOOD!

here's the final entry by Chanson Presley.
check back tomorrow for voting. polls will be posted on the blog sidebar on the left!

holla!

-samax

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Villain Get The Money Like Curls!

Villain Get The Money... by Pacman23
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Much Obliged for the Beat, god...

DOOM Worldwide by I Grade

peep the DoomsDay Device!

MF DOOM by ZEES

man, i can't tell you how much fun it's been to do this contest. it will be my pleasure to shoot the winner the $100... just opening my email and finding rediculous artwork (instead of spam pimping suspect Cialis) has been a blast. as expected, my Inbox is overloaded today with last-minute HEAT, so i may still be posting them tomorrow...

-samax!

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Comicbook World # 30

Good News everybody! scientists found some dormant 120,000-year-old bacteria minding its own business 2 miles beneath a glacier. since they just couldn't leave well enough alone, they did their super-scientific alchemy and brought the lonely li'l microbes back to life on some jurassic park shit. don't worry though! i'm sure they are friendly little microbes...

anyways, even if the microscopic li'l jokers want beef, i'm sure the scientists have multiple anti-ancient microbe warfare scenarios on tap for just such an occasion. cause it's not like science has let us down so far right?if all else fails, and scientists unleash some kind of microbiological anti-god, i'm sure we can count on superheroes to shrink down and go into our bodies and kick their little micro-tails from here to... hold on someone's handing me a bulletin... THIS JUST IN: there's no such thing as superhero shrinking rays! we are soooo screwed...

-samax

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You're A Slave to a Page in my Comic Book...

to get the full effect of Stacey Robinson's MF DOOM ART CONTEST entry, you really need to click the pic to enlarge. dude is the writer/artist on Abraham The Young Lion, right... so this is a page from the 2nd book (which i don't have yet 'cause i have a 9-month-old eatin' my wish list money... but i'ma get it!). strangely appropriate for the contest. there's still a little time left for the rest of ya'll to polish your pieces and get 'em in!

holla!

-gM

The Best Superhero Comic in the Universe...

i guess it's possible that some of you aren't reading Invincible, but if so, it isn't MY fault... this comic consistanly supplies more WTF, OMG, and LMMFAO than the next three comics combined for $2.99. i be tryin'a tell ya'll but you don't hear me... or maybe you do (sales on that joint are prrrretty good)... anyways, click the pic for a free 5-page preview, courtesy of the fine folks at CBR.

holla!

-samax

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Real Recognize Real

illustrator Angelina Greenwood sent this piece in for the MF DOOM ART CONTEST, and i'm excited to see what the reaction will be. today is the last day for contest entries. that means soon, people will be able to start voting on a winner! if you're working on a piece, you can still get 'em in today until midnight.

King City is in PREVIEWS!

you should go ahead and sweat your comic shop to order Brandon Graham's King City. The first of the jumbo-sized issues is in this month's issue of PREVIEWS, so go to your comic shop and tell them you want it! if they won't order it, tell them to kiss your black ass (even if you're not black) and find a comic shop who will! Tokyopop's King City OGN rocked my world last year, so i know you'll dig this series now that Image is relaunching it... it's SO ghettoManga (read my review here). anyways, this post is really just an excuse to run some of Brandon's artwork, so i'll just tell you to click to enlarge and all that...

holla!

-samax

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Deviation of the Day

April by *biz02

Quote of the Day

"The Bad artists imitate, The Great artists STEAL..."

-Pablo Picasso

WorldWide, Baby!

click to enlarge and swoon over Sanford Greene's cover to the French release of the Method Man graphic novel i reviewed a few months ago. in light of all the excitement being generated by Tyrese's upcoming comics project, consider how huge Mef's book COULD have been if the Wu promotional machine had been put behind this the way Tyrese has fully invested in his book.
Far from using Mef's book as some kind of cautionary tale, i think he should gear up and use the new media to push this book again, not primarily at comics fans (like me) but at Method Man fans (also, like me... as it turns out)! consider what he could do in terms of multi-task media attention (beef, the new Blackout album, etc have people calling on Iron Lung to chime in... why not throw the elevator pitch for the OGN while they listening?). even better, he should task Atchison and Green with smashing out a follow-up (maybe including Redman in the fun this time) and then swing for the bleachers! if you haven't read this book, peep my review. i think the book's worth giving a look!
holla!
-samax
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There's Only ONE DAY LEFT!!!

my homegirl SmoovArt came with it on her entry in the MF DOOM ART CONTEST, as evidenced by this portrait of the Villain. Monday June 13th is the last day to submit, so wrap it up and get it to my Inbox by tomorrow night if you want a crack at that $100. as you can see, competition will be fierce! expect voting to start on Wednesday!

-samax

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Deviant of the Day

Dexter Dodgeball by *sircle

"Today is a GREAT day for SCIENCE!"

-gM

can't get ENUFF DOOM!

that dude Ron One broke his foot off in his entry for the MF DOOM ART CONTEST! if you didn't already know the attitude of the supervillainous MF DOOM, now you know! there's one more day to get in your entries, then i'm closing it up to get ready for the vote! so if you're noodlin' on something, get it in my inbox by monday night!

Get that Ricotta, Bada-BING, Bada-BOOM!

your boy Seni Oyewole of Oyetoons came with this fresh joint for the MF DOOM ART CONTEST. Seni opted to drop a DANGERDOOM piece for this one, just so you know (peep his first entry here)! if ya'll wanna drop in an entry for a chance to win that $100, ya best get your entries in my inbox quick. Monday, June 15th is the last day i'm taking entries!

Serenity NOW!

Serene by samax.
here's a portrait i did for my girl Serena Wills, a poet and arts activist, and one of the coolest chicks you'll ever meet... this joint is PLATINUM on Facebook. for whatever reason, cats is going straight GONZO for this piece over there... go figure. anyways, i'm a man of the people and FOR the people, so expect prints and teeshirts made with this image this summer...
holla!
-samax
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Deviant of the Day

Not Akira by brockrizy (artist of the comic Emily Edison)
dope, huh?
-gM

Quote of the Day

"I figured if they don't like it, fuck it, I do. And as all artists should know, that's all that matters."

-Dave Johnson (cover artist 100 Bullets, Unknown Soldier)

go POP like Snot Bubbles

that dude Raisin Cane came with the bang zoom on his entry in the MF DOOM ART CONTEST! you got four more days to get your entries in if you wanna challenge for the $100 First Prize, 'cause June 15th is the last day!

holla!

-samax

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Runnin' through Haze Like Rush Week on you Freshmen...

Change Your Style by AmDex f/Supastition and Elevader Dan. Lead Single from AmDex's solo EP, The 7 Scrolls.
i first heard of this dude on mySpace. he's a deejay/producer/emcee for a crew called Clan Destined outta ATL. he's not one of these producers with substandard rhymes, either. cat is mustard... props to that dude goldi for lettin' me know this was on youTube! peep it and speak on it...
-samax
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Tyrese is on a Mission!

that dude from the coke commercial, 2Fast2Furious, and that poster on your girlfriend's wall is looking to have the highest presales in comicbook history! yeah, Tyrese Gibson is apparently the only person who knows how to promote a comic! when i found out he was doing his own comic, i started following him on Twitter, and i can tell you for sure, i have never seen anyone work harder to promote a comic before!

besides the fact that he is actually PROUD to have a comic in the works, Reesey also has recorded a song for free download titled Mayhem, Take Me Away, secured a relationship with the largest comicshop in the Los Angeles to serve as the home base of his comics operation, and created a website dedicated to putting the word out and empowering fans to street team for the book, and shamelessly plugs the book while promoting the new Transformers movie. most people who make comics don't even tell their co-workers, but Tyrese is doing it GODZILLA big, and he's getting results.

Gibson's book Mayhem! (you gotta include the exclamation point) is the Gem of the Month in the Image Comics section of Previews (the catalog shops use to order comics). his bottomless enthusiasm is evident and effective... "In the COMIC book world" the singer says "getting GEM OF THE MONTH is like getting Album of the MONTH! Very BIG DEAL!" and the enthusiasm is spreading. while he's doing interviews in other countries, people are already asking about Mayhem! before he can bring it up. his stated goal is to break the preorder record, and if his attitude is any indicator, he's gonna do it! many celebrities have made a foray into the medium, but Tyrese is writing the book on how to launch a comic. if others follow his lead, making comics (and reading them) could take a step towards being something that isn't considered uncommon, for fans only. and as a lifelong fan, i'm here to tell you, that's exactly what the medium needs!

holla!

-samax

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Dave Dalton Does DOOM!

here's a couple submissions to the MF DOOM ART CONTEST by David Dalton! more and more people are throwing their hats into the ring, and time is running out to join the fun! get your piece(s) in by June 15th for a crack at the $100 prize!

holla!

-samax

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Benefit Hip Hop/Art Show Saturday in Dallas!

i'll be in the house doing live art for this Hip Hop show benefitting The Genesis Women's Shelter in Dallas. If you're gonna be in Dallas June 13th, swing by the Bone and drop $5 to help stop Domestic Violence. among others, look for ArtLoveMagic, Playdough, Solomon Infinite (and prrrobably the Boondox), and more art, rapping and assorted what not to make it a steal. let your weekend boozing serve a purpose! sponsored by mad folks... click the flyer to enlarge. click the widget below for a PDF.
holla!
-samax

Comicbook World #29

i don't even know what to say... a 1:1 replica of a Gundam. i don't have time right now to explain what a Gundam is to the uninitiated, so hit the Wikapedia.
ichiban!
-samax
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Limited Time Turtle Power

props to your man Philip Tseng for designing this fresh Ninja Turtle parody teeshirt. cop it for a lowly $9 bucks. This joint is available for only one day, then it's gone forever. you'll be kicking yourself if you miss it, so save the drama and cop that joint from the fine folks at Tee Fury!
holla!
-samax
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Deviation of the Day

Audrey 09 by mooncalfe aka gMa winner Ross Campbell (Wet Moon, Mountain Girl)
-gM

What The FAUX?!?

my man Jamar put me onto this mess! Kung Faux is a comedy series that remixes classic kung fu movies with popular music, comic book style editing and video game special effects, and new voice-over dubbing from hip hop personalities ranging from Gang Starr's Guru, Queen Latifah, Jean Grae, Mr. Len, Lord Sear, Roc Raida, Biz Markie, Masta Ace, Sadat X, Afrika Bambaataa, Crazy Legs and Elephant Man.
this mess will have you DYIN', guaranteed!click the pic to watch "Box Cutter"...
holla!
-samax
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In Stores NOW...

okay, so i already supplied you with two tracks FREE from ghettoManga 2007 Man of the Year the mighty Mos Def's new plate The Ecstatic, with the likes of Kweli, Slick Rick, Dilla and Madlib on the helpout. Now here's snippets from the whole joint, available for download now on Amazon ($3.99!). tell the world!

holla!

-samax

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There's Only 6 Days Left!

HeavyMetalFaceDOOM by GoldiGold

There's Only 6 Days Left! Rappers Screaming All In Our Ears Like We're Deaf! that dude GoldiGold returns to make sure everything remains raw with a 2nd entry in the MF DOOM ART CONTEST! (peep the first entry here) He has his mind on that money and the money on his mind... if you still wanna try and win that $100, get your entry (or entries) in by June 15th!

holla!

-samax

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Deviant of the Day

Lil' Mad Skills by *Roboworks

here's a pin up for Champion of Children that was done back in the day by long-time friend of ghettoManga Kelsey Shannon (no one just goes by their name on Deviant Art but me!). seein' as we are coming out with new Champ stuff soon, maybe this ill joint will see print!

holla!

-samax

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OYE Does DOOM!

MF DOOM! by Seni Oyewole of Oyetoons

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A True Master

click the Pic to read Swallowing the Earth by master cartoonist Osamu Tezuka.

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Hood GRAPHIX!!!

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I just had a run-in with BLADE!!

what's up daywalkers? i been up all night drawing! in addition to my freelance comics gig (pages soon come) i knocked out another commission. this time, it's Blade for my internet homey JR Lemar! we got into a conversation on Facebook that had me ready to submit a treatment to Marvel. this character was nailed in movies by Producer/Star/NumberOneNegro Wesley Snipes, and hasn't ever been done nearly as well in comics. if i get a chance to do a Blade comic, i promise i'll KILL it...
anyways,
-samax
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