IN STORES NOW- INVINCIBLE #92

Kirkman's Invincible continues to be one of the best books on shelves, and if all the superhero franchise movies are actually converting anyone to reading superhero comics (yeah, right) Invincible is the book they should get into. The current story has Bulletproof filling in for the real Invincible, with mixed results. Here's a preview...

NEW Video- "Godspeed" by Napoleon Da Legend and Crazy Al Cayne

Here's the video for Godspeed, another banger by the dynamic duo of Napoleon Da Legend and Crazy Al Cayne...

#np "Mother Earth, Still Life" by Agartha Audio & Taiyamo Denku f/ Vast Aire, Illogic & Perseph 1

I got a long day ahead of me, but I got this in my email this morning and I just HAD to share this with you...

I totally missed it- "GENIUS" by Afua Richardson

I first came across Afua Richardson years ago on the Artxilla message boards back when that was my primary method of scouting talent and sharing my own work. She was going by the name Lakota Sioux back then, and her work was pretty good. I went through period where I was spending less time socializing with artists and more time prospecting for clients (with mixed results), and she was one of the people who I just lost track of.  In that time, Afua's work REALLY took off, including doing the art on Genius for Top Cow's Pilot Season, which eventually spawned a mini-series. Here's the Pilot issue of Genius, in it's entirety.

DOWNLOAD THIS! "#autonomy" by the mighty BUKUE ONE

we jumping for joy with you, Bukue...

Rhyme-sayer, graf-writer and crate-digger Tion Bukue Torrence has successfully funded the vinyl pressing of his self-produced album #autonomy via the magic money machine called Kickstarter! I met Bukue when he came through town with Del the funky homosapien and my homegirl Allana! He is cool people and I am mad thankful for the opportunity to support! You can listen to the whole album below...

#BegBorrowSteal- "Princeless Book One: Save Yourself"

I've been promising to write a review of the Action Lab Comics fantasy adventure title Princeless for a minute. I bought the first issue last fall and eventually copped all four issues, and was really excited by it. Now that this fresh tale of a fed up young princess taking matters into her own hands has swept the Glyphs and been collected into the trade paperback Save Yourself (yes, I bought that too), I guess I need to get in gear and review this thing...

C.Truth gets at @KharyRandolph for CAC-TV and @thermalSoundwav

You know we cuts for that dude Khary (like Atari) Randolph here at GhettoManga, so when I was cruising through Crazy Al Cayne's site and saw this interview C. Truth did with Khary, I had to get my embed on...

R.I.P. Milestone Comics writer Robert L. Washington III

KICKSTART THIS- "Princess Lucinda" Channel M's Anti-Disney Princess graphic novel

You may already know we're taking pre-orders and getting support for our comic about the world's greatest kid hero, but we also wanna let you know about those crazy cats at Channel M...  They're Kickstarting their urban fantasy book starring a young lady from the other side of the moral divide...

Wet Moon Vol 6 release date on the Horizon

I'm glad to hear that the 6th volume of Ross Campbell's genre-bending girl-centric OGN series Wet Moon will be out a little earlier than expected! Previews has the book scheduled to drop in awesome comic shops like mine on September 5th, which is only three shorts months away. Let's look at some preview pages to celebrate! Remember, if you haven't read volume 5, you might learn something you don't wanna know, so proceed with caution...

"Listen to my song before I strong arm the industry, blow up like a bomb, don't even forewarn the enemy..."-Myth #strangeFruitProject

Maybe it's just the Texas in me, but I love me some Strange Fruit Project. Which makes it all the more shocking to me that I totally missed A Dreamer's Journey when it came out in the fall of 2011. Totally...

Save the Date, you TREACHEROUS MOTHAF---AS!

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...

Webcomic (P)review: "Vacant" by Heather Nunnelly

Heather Nunnelly contacted me today to promote her sci-fi mystery webcomic Vacant, which follows Commander Hayze, an agent of "The Eye" a powerful alien government/ corporate agency. Sent on a seemingly simple rescue mission, Hayze stumbles upon a possible explanation for the near extermination of the human race that had taken place over 100 years prior...

and now, Some Cannon Busters teasers by LeS

 Here's some screencaps from CannonBusters, the perpetually upcoming animated feature by producer, director, and international man of mystery, the mighty LeSean Thomas.

PHILLY COMIC CON: Stan the Streetfighting Bowler

Because he didn't tell me, I wasn't able to warn inform you that Jamar Nicholas (Fist, Stick Knife, Gun) and his art slaves were repping their as-yet-unborn webcomic Stan the Streetfighting Bowler at Philly Comic Con. I am not at the show, but I can confirm that they are totally in the house and stuff... and I got pitchers to prove it, buddy... 

"I will OWN any challenger, high level or amateur. It really doesn't matter, you challenge me, I'ma damage ya" -DaShade

The myth that there are no spitters in the South amuses me. As an underground head, I know better, and I gave up arguing about it long ago... I prefer to show not tell, ya dig? Da'Shade MoonBeam is sick with beats AND rhymes, so eff your stereotypes, labels and backhanded compliments, tough guy! Now listen... 

LeSean Thomas' documentary series "SEOUL SESSIONS Episode 1" is here!

This week, the fine folks at Creative Control finally debuted their documentary series Seoul Sessions, starring that dude LeSean Thomas, teevee animation Producer/Director on shows such as The Boondocks, The Legend of Korra, and Adult Swim's upcoming joint Black Dynamite: The Animated Series. Peep the first episode below as LeSean explains why he moved to South Korea, and how he acclimated himself to a new language and culture...

Start the day out Right w/@Murs & @SkiBeatz

Here's the video for Epic Salutation, a single off Murs' latest album Love and Rockets... I'm not sure if there's any relationship to the long-running indy comic of the same name by the Hernandez boys... but there SHOULD be!

INTERVIEW- Felipe Smith on Meltcast!

That dude Felipe Smith (Peepo Choo, MBQ) sits down with the Meltcast kids to break rocks about his smoking hot comics, working in Japan and coming home to America... and the NEW SHIT he's working on...

Deviant of the Day- SaintChase aka Chase Conley (trust me, you wanna see this, fam!)

I never heard nothin' about this dude Chase Conley (aka saintChase on deviant art) until iFanboy dropped this article on 'im. It was enough to send me a'lookin' at his stuff. Well, er um... he's pretty good...I mostly posted character designs and experiments from his in-progress OGN Kinetic Kartel (cause that's how the eff I roll), but there's some comics isht in here, too...

Fresh Caricature speedpaint by the mighty Dawud Anyabwile

Here's another speedpaint video below by cartoonist, father and volunteer black superman Dawud Anyabwile (Brotherman).

Start the day off Right w/ Billy Woods and MIGHTY JOSEPH (Vast Aire & Karniege)

I came across this track Drinks (off Billy Woods' indie hip hop record The Chalice) on YouTube a while back, and it quickly became my mother effing JOINT thanks to hardbody verses from Vast Aire and Karniege! Hot stuff for your speaker...

Brotherman speedpaint for the process junkies out there...

Here's some video of Dawud Anyabwile tightening up a Brotherman storyboard/concept piece. Always interesting to see how another artist gets down...

(p)review- "CHAINED GUN" by @DonnyFrank

I've been looking in on Donny Frank for years. I think I first saw his stuff during the mySpace era, then started watching him on Deviant Art. Today, Donny dropped a link on the GhettoManga Facebook page to his new 170 page western comic Chained Gun volume 1 which came out on Amazon.com last month.

PREVIEW- Powers #10 by Bendis and Oeming

 I haven't read Powers in a long time, but this comic about cops who specialize in superhuman homicide cases was at the very top of my must-read list back in the day. The combination of Oeming's signature cartoon style and Bendis' potty-mouthed Tarrintinoesque dialogue has been sorely missing from my life, as my reaction to these preview pages reveals...

Giant Monster + Funk vinyl + Comics + Hot Peas and Butta = Kodoja: Terror Mountain Showdown!

45 sleeve art (mad limited!) by Elroy Jenkins

Philly funk band Big Pimp Jones and the 70's pop-culture-fueled party machine Hot Peas and Butta have joined forces with illustrator Elroy Jenkins and comicbook artist Recs (his momma named him Rory Smith) to create the city-smashing Kodoja: Terror Mountain Showdown, which will debut at Philly Comic Con. Peep the fresh Skeme Richards mix and more art below...

#nowPlaying The Talking Drum f/ Wise Intelligent & Foluso Mimy

Some cats emcee. Some rap. Some spit spoken word. A few (like the mighty Wise Intelligent) do all three...

Quotable...

"Crown of Horns" a novel illustrated by Shawn Alleyne, to debut at Philadelphia Comic Con

That dude Shawn Alleyne (Street Team) was excited to see copies of John Cullins's fantasy  novel Crown of Horns arrive on his doorstep. And he should be, since he drew the cover (with colors by Blair Smith) and the lushly illustrated chapter breaks.

Come rock with us at TITAN this Thursday night in Dallas!

The mighty Ghostwerks crew is having a party Thursday night at Titan Comics in Dallas

In Stores Now- Prophet #25 by Brandon Graham & Giannis Milogiannis

I've spent the last few days geeking over the work of Brandon Graham and James Stokoe, both of whom seemed to burst fully formed into my field of vision like Athena from Zeus's dome. Another dude I found whose star is sure to rise Is Giannis Milonogiannis (Old City Blues), who is handling art chores on this issue of Prophet, which Brandon is writing.

New Video- "Wikileaks" by Marq Spekt & Kno

That dude Lex Boogie from the Bronx posted this brand new video for Wikileaks, the single off that MarQ Spekt & Kno banger Machete Vision. Nuff respect to that dude Flux who smashed the cover art (fooooosh!)

almost done- My Misty Knight painting...

Misty Knight by Samax (in progress... more after the blah blah)

 Yeah, it is well known that I heart me some Misty Knight. I try not to complain when she is drawn weird or treated like a sidekick or silly wimpy girl, but y'all know she is still dope, and a great representation of the surviving spirit of black women. Plus, she's HAWT! so anyways, I painted her. Peep...

Black Widow watercolor by Brian Stelfreeze

My buddy Mike texted me to let me know he picked up this hella fresh Black Widow painting by Brian mother-effing Stelfreeze (Hardcore, The Ride/ Gun Candy) at the Wounded Warriors Live Art Auction, 'cause that's the kinda guy he is. I demanded pics to share on the blog, 'cause that's the kinda guy I am...

#nowPlaying - "Forever" by GensuDean, f/ the mighty Large Professor

                                                                                                                                                                            

Yeah, I need to cop this... It's off Gensu Dean's album Lo - Fi Fingahz.

PREVIEW- "GODZILLA:THE HALF CENTURY WAR" by James Stokoe

 For all the James Stokoe fans out there, I just got a few pages from his upcoming IDW Godzilla comic, The Half Century War, as well as some pages from his creator-owned book, Orc Stain, which has slowed down lately. At least now I know why...

"The Legend of Stagolee" by David Walker and Rusty Beach

That dude David Walker (BadAzz Mofo, Blind Monkey Style) has recently dropped this Blaxploitation joint The Legend of Stagolee on Issuu, and I figured I'd share it with you...

Brandon Graham ♥s Marian and other sketchbooktivities...

 Love. It's good for you. Besides expressing his undying devotion to his award-winning lady-half Marian Churchland (Beast, Elephantmen, Northlanders), the mighty Brandon Graham obviously loves comics too. Both of these things are praise-worthy. Here's some of his recent drawings...

KICKSTART THIS- "Sullivan's Sluggers" by Mark Andrew Smith & James Stokoe

Unlike our's, Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe's Kickstarter campaign  for their baseball horror graphic novel Sullivan's Sluggers doesn't need you. Sure, when I checked the link for it and put in my little $30 pledge, they had already raised something like 450 bucks of their $6,000 goal. By the time I got home from work, got my three year old fed, bathed and in the bed and sat down at my computer to drop this blog about it, it was at over $16,000 (a little less than three times the goal for those keeping score at home). So I know they don't need me to promote it, or you to pledge on it. But what the hell? Let's do it anyways...