Comicbook World #66 - Cougar's son goes Wolverine on roommate!

In comics, a hero's greatest enemy is often a friend gone bad. From the looks of it, life is imitating art again in Vernal, Utah where 19 year old Kristofer Ryan Huff allegedly attacked his roommate with Wolverine claws for giving his moms the ole fastball special...

(DOOM x Jneiro Jarel) + (Moredcai x Rigby) = GUV'NOR #doTheMath

Neither Mordecai nor Rigby of the Cartoon Network hit Regular Show makes an appearance in the video for the JJ DOOM single Guv'nor, but I'm sure they are bumping this in between funny internet videooos...

PREVIEW- VOODOO #12

 I forgot all about this comic. I have no idea what's going on, but the art is pretty. So there you go...

"Sullivan's Sluggers" Wraparound cover, Baseball Cards, and more preview art

 If you're one of the three or four people in the universe that didn't back Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe's limited-edition baseball horror graphic novel Sullivan's Sluggers, you probably don't care about the front and back cover art (above) or any of the other preview art I posted below. But I'm showing it anyways, because I'm excited and stuff...

#IFWT- "Soda Girl and the Sugar Scouts" by Whitney Gardner

Whitney Gardner is in one of the million Facebook groups I participate in. She posted this hilarious mini-comic she made.  I honestly felt like Soda Girl and the Sugar Scouts is way too good not to share it... Check it out below...

Sanford Greene on "Heroes for Hire"..?

Chris "Crazyhouse" Miller debuts his "Action! Magazine" at Onyxcon 4

Peep some preview art from Chris "CrazyHouse" Miller's new all-ages cartoon anthology Action! Magazine

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...

Official Video to "Grown Up" plus a few words about that dude Danny Brown

I just snatched this video for the Danny Brown track Grown Up off Crazy Al Cayne's website. It's what I do...

Is it possible? A Darius Davidson cartoon?

I already posted this drawing of my teenage adventurer Darius Davidson on Facebook, but I haven't said much about why.

(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...

In Stores NOW- "GODZILLA: HALF CENTURY WAR" by James Stokoe!

In case you didn't know (or you forgot, like me), the first issue of James  Stokoe's Godzilla: Half-Century War mini-series came out this week. Peep the 8 page preview below...

#nowPlaying "WHOOP ASS" by Oh No f/Sticky Fingaz

If you can look at the cover to Oh No's new plate OhNomite and not want to buy it on sight, well... I can't be your friend anymore. Don't take it too hard, but if this cover art by Charles Munka (art direction by the mighty Jeff Jank) doesn't make you wanna buy this record... you know, put ACTUAL MONEY down for it... then we have nothing in common. This relationship's not going anywhere, so it's best that we part ways now. No hard feelings...

VIDEO: BLACK DYNAMITE PANEL from SDCC

Feast your eyes on the people that get paid to make folks mad on the large and small screens with their blaxploitation sensation Black Dynamite. There's 22 and a half minutes of panel, about 6 minutes of which is the introductions. But they're pretty funny too, so peep...

"This ain't Gene Wilder, muthaf*cka! This is BLACK DYNAMITE!" -Richard Pryor (sorta)

Okay, so for those of us that don't have cable, here's the Get Him to the Sunset Strip episode of Black Dynamite...

"Ride to the rescue. They say the truth come to the light. I prove it half true..." King Ra

Here's a new video for That Look by King Ra Da Almighty.

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...

I can't stop listening to "Empire State" by MIGHTY JOSEPH (Vast Aire & Karniege) #nowPlaying

How could I possibly resist Mighty Joseph? Vast Aire and Karniege, two of my favorite emcees? both equally comfy spitting that special blend of nerdcore New York thug genius that I am so enamored with? Conversational flows smuggling weapons-grade wordplay? Plus, one of the illest album covers ever? Once I start bumping Empire State, how the hell can I stop listening to it?

The easy answer is I can't!

Happy Thor's Day!

Sanford Greene interviewed at Comicon about "1,000" and "Rotten Apple" (plus peep lotsa art!)

Sanford Greene speaks on his upcoming comics projects 1,000 and Rotten Apple, why Black Panther should be in Captain America 2 and lots of other stuff you definitely wanna hear...

Brandon Graham + Gaiman + CBLDF + Tee Shirt = Yes

That dude Brandon Graham has a new tee shirt on Threadless benefiting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The shirt is based on a Neil Gaiman poem, too... and you KNOW how chicks dig Neil Gaiman! Yep. 25% of your purchase will go to the CBLDF! Peep...

KICKSTART THIS- "reMIND Volume 2" by Jason Brubaker

I can't say enough good things about the highly sophisticated all-ages webcomic- turned- hardcover reMIND by indy phenom Jason Brubaker. The first volume blew my mind when I copped it via Kickstarter last year. Now volume two is locked and loaded, with a new chance for you to get in on it. Here's a preview

I FUX WITH THIS---> "Halloween Eve" by Amy Reeder & Brandon Montclare

Halloween Eve is a magic-filled joint starring a sista who hates Halloween.  I saw this on Kickstarter today and couldn't resist...

Walt Simonson + Red Hulk = Yes, Please!

I'm actually pretty impressed by my own indifference to the whole Avengers VS X-Men crossover going on at the so-called House of Ideas... but I might actually buy Avengers #28, because my favorite artist of all time looks to be in rare form judging from this preview...

PREVIEW- "XOC: The Journey of a Great White"

 Everybody loves sharks. Especially the so-called Great White Shark. Like ferocious living attack submarines, this high-powered carnivore is a hold-over from the time when giant beasts ruled the Earth. For some reason, we humans can't get enough of these aquatic troublemakers. Get a load of XOC: The Journey of a Great White by Matt Dembicki...

Missed the Black Dynamite debut? Watch it here!

In case you just came out from under a rock, the Black Dynamite Animated Series hit the airwaves last Sunday. The episode which parodies the many faces of Michael Jackson held down that 11:30 time slot. If the quality of this episode is any indication, Adult Swim's got another hit on their hands...

PREVIEW- "Glory: Destroyer part three" by Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell

It's that time of the month... you know, time for me to remind you that Keatinge and Ross Campbell's run on Glory is rocking my world! Monsters are all up in the little French village Glory's been hiding in... But is Glory the most dangerous beast of them all?

"You think critics are haters. They just doin' they're job (though they're job f*cking sucks) -Willie Evans Jr.

My facebook friend Evelyn Kalubi sent me down the rabbit hole over the weekend by linking me to Willie Evans Jr's video Nerd English. It was like meeting a childhood friend...

PREVIEW: "Infernal Man-Thing" #2 by Steve Gerber & Kevin Nowlan (with a fresh Art Adams cover)

 Here's another preview of the late Steve Gerber's final Man-Thing story, illustrated by Kevin Nowlan with a cover by Arthur Adams.

“Today we are cancelling the apocalypse!” -Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba)

an awesome short comic by Simon Roy

 Since I decided to tradewait on Prophet, I haven't read that much of Simon Roy's comics by way of books in hand. I have read many pages of his work online, and they are always a real treat. Peep this awesome 6 page joint starring a couple birds....

Felipe Smith's dropping a new book at BOOM Studios... sorta

As you might have guessed, we are as pleased as can be to have high-octane cartoonist Felipe Smith (MBQ, Peepo Choo) back in the States after spending the last few years in Japan. In that Meltdown interview I posted a while back, Felipe let slip that he was working on several projects. The first promos have started dropping for Freelancers, the action comedy he co-created with BOOM Studios editor-in-chief Matt Gagnon.

JULY 15th CANNOT COME FAST ENOUGH!!!

Today's Deviation: 12 page preview of "Potential of Nine" by Taylor Garrity

I discovered indie cartoonist Taylor Garrity through one of the comics groups I follow on DeviantArt. Aside from creating tons of great fan art of the usual pop culture icons, he also crafted a 110 page sci-fi action graphic novel called Potential of Nine that dropped in 2011. check it out...

Preview the hilarious all-ages comic "PANTALONES, TX: DON'T CHICKEN OUT" by Yehudi Mercado

I'm a huge fan of Yehudi Mercado (Buffalo Speedway) so when I saw this trailer for Pantalones, TX: Don't Chicken Out his upcoming all-ages graphic novel, I had to check it out. Peep the youTube trailer and some preview pages below...

start the day off Right w/ Chief Kamachi

My buddy Sheila hipped me to this dude Chief Kamachi. Dude is nice... peep the video for City Blocks off his album Rise & Rhyme Vol 1.

Start the day off Right w/ Manchild

All my fellow Mars ILL fans will be happy to know that Dust and Manchild are hard at work on a new album. While we wait patiently, Manchild is happy to hook us up with Thunderspeak, the new joint he recorded with Mista Min.

Deviant of the Day #118- Beefy-Kunoichi aka James Stanley

If you like manga and hip hop -and lets face it, you probably do if you're reading a blog called GhettoManga- then you need to save a space on your rss feed, bookmarks and whatever other ways you keep track of hot shit for young comics dude James Stanley (aka Beefy Kunoichi), author of upcoming webjoint Part Time Shuffle...

LeSean Tomas's documentary series SEOUL SESSIONS: Episode 2- "The Foreign Exchange"

LeSean's documentary series Seoul Sessions returns detailing his time in South Korea working with arguably the greatest animators on the planet. In this episode LeS builds and destroys with super-talented anime director Kim Kidoo (Madhouse, AIC), working on an animated version of CannonBusters.

PREVIEW- Infernal Man-Thing #1 by Steve Gerber & Kevin Nowlan

Although Marvel's unfortunately named swamp-dwelling monster the Man-Thing was created by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway and artist Gray Morrow, he is probably most associated with the late horror and superhero scribe Steve Gerber. After writing the character in 39 issues of the horror magazine Adventure Into Fear and subsequent series and guest appearances, Gerber also wrote Man-Thing:  Screenplay of the Living Dead Man, a graphic novel illustrated by Kevin Nowlan. Gerber did not live to see it published, having passed in 2008. Part one of the story is dropping this week as the first issue of The Infernal Man-Thing...