In stores NOW- LADYCASTLE #3

 Please tell me you're checking for Delilah Dawson's fantasy joint LADYCASTLE...

Lando Chill releases lead single for upcoming album "The Boy Who Spoke to the Wind"

If you've been paying attention, you know I fux wit indie hip hop label Mello Music Group.  So when they dropped Lando Chill's new single Break Them Shackles in my inbox, I had to at least give it a spin...

Oddisee is the hero hip hop needs right now...

I been bumping this OddIsee song Like Really for a minute, so I was pleased to stumble across the minimalist video for the track on the COLORS YouTube Channel...

A few words about the CLOAK & DAGGER trailer

This is a drawing I did of the street-dwelling vigilante duo Cloak & Dagger for a client, just so you can feel the love I have for the characters.  So now that you know that I rides for Tyrone and Tandy, watch this trailer Marvel dropped last week...

Who want some #GodHop from Black Thought and David Banner?

Everybody knows I cuts for David Banner, and on Who Want It? he got a sick verse from Black Thought too.  So yeah...

#NowPlaying LOOPS TWO by MidaZ the Beast

Rhymer/Illustrator Gift Revolver did artwork for this guy MidaZ the Beast, which would be reason enough to encourage you to listen to MidaZ's 2016 album Loops Two.  But as it turns out, Loops Two is a fabulous blend of true-school street hop and nerdcore wordery.  Stream the record below, and read some words from me, if you're so inclined...

OH SNAP! @HOODRATZinSPACE is LIVE on KICKSTARTER!

 Here's the promo video and some unlettered pages from the Kickstarter campaign for Hoodratz in Space #4 by the homie Erik Reeves...

"No longer picking cotton. Niggas stitching cotton. And I sell that shit dirt cheap to Sam Walton..." @Griffen

Chicago rhyme animal Griffen goes in on your prison industrial complex in this video for Economik Splendor...

I didn't care about THOR: RAGNAROK, but then I saw the trailer...

I was not particularly interested in THOR: RAGNAROK... until I watched this trailer.  Now, I'm on board like Tony Hawk...

ECBACC Returns to North Philly!

#nowPlaying MOOHAMMADEEN by Obadiah ONE

I first discovered Obadiah One years ago, via one song on a mixtape one of my co-workers slid to me.  Somehow me and Obadiah became friends on Facebook recently, and he linked me to his soundcloud, where I found this song MOOHAMMADEEN,  which is now officially my new sheet...

Just a one panel I drew last night...

In stores now- LADYCASTLE #2

The second issue of Delilah S Dawson's postmodern princess tale LADYCASTLE has arrived!  Peep some preview art below...

Funk Doc makes an appearance in "MENTHU: The Anger of Angels" plus your man Pythagoras got a comic coming out too!

 This post is guaranteed to move you fam!  I got updates for you courtesy of the Operative Network from their Egyptian demigod superhero webcomic Menthu, which features a cameo by New Jersey's favorite son, Redman... sorta.  Also, do the knowledge with that dude Pythagoras in Irrational Numbers...

Tweet of the Week- "Forge Be Like..."'

Forge be like:
"I ain't hatin', but that shit ain't gone last..." pic.twitter.com/AkcvJTU86o

— GhettoManga Magazine (@ghettoManga) March 26, 2017

NEW VIDEO- "HOT DAMN" by Venomous2000 & Trilian

Yeah, you should already know this song Hot Damn, because I should have already dropped my review of Venomous2000 & Trilian's dope ass collabo album Sounds of the Great Ones.  But I didn't.  So you don't.  Blaming me is not gonna fix anything, so let's just dive into the new video, and we can all agree that I helped by showing it to you...

Oeming is DESTROYING the art on CAVE CARSON!

DC's handed the keys to some lesser characters to Gerard Way for his Young Animal label of books, and he is making some damn good comics.  My favorite is the incredible Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye with incredible cartoon art by the mighty Mike Oeming (Powers, Mice Templar, Hammer of the Gods).

The Ladies of DC go HARD in BOMBSHELLS

I have absolutely no idea what's going on in with this comic BOMBSHELLS, othern than the fact that DC has Laura Braga and Richard Ortiz churning out some serious art on this book...

IN STORES NOW- Odyssey of the Amazons #3 by Kevin Grevioux, Don Ho and Ryan Benjamin

With the Wonder Woman flick on horizon, DC is smartly raising the profile of Diana's mythos with a sweet series Odyssey of the Amazons written by that dude Kevin Grevioux (Underworld, The Blue Marvel, Spider-Man vs Vampires).

Oh, Jay #6

Mascot for the Obamacare repeal appears on Late Night with Stephen Colbert

It warms my heart anytime I see teevee shows are employing artists to draw stuff to go with their programming.  Here we are introduced to SuckIt, the Don't Care Bear -new Mascot for the Republican's Obamacare repeal- in Colbert's monologue...

Samax runs the gamut of emotions in "Stream of Consciousness"

Stream of Consciousness by Samax Amen 16x20 Acrylic & India ink on canvas

"The only currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool..." -Lester Bangs (Almost Famous)

Here's a montage of the late great Phillip Seymour Hoffman's scenes as Lester Bangs in one of my favorite movies: Almost Famous.

Black Dynamite: "Diff'rent Folks, Same Strokes" or "The Hunger Pang Games"

Watching Black Dynamite on my lunch break.  Join me, won't you?

In Stores Now- LADYCASTLE #1 by Delilah Dawson and Ashley Woods

 If you trust me to tell you who to keep your eye on, you should already know about rising star artist Ashley Woods (Millennia War, Niobe), but if you haven't been listening, she goes extremely hard with this art shit.  She supplied the art to Delilah S Dawson's postmodern princess tale LADYCASTLE.  Peep some preview art below...

Get your hands on KID CARVERS & The Backyard Bike Bandits #1

Check out this preview of KID CARVERS & The Backyard Bike Bandits #1, the latest offering from New Orleans based publisher 133Art.

#nowPlaying RNDM BEATS ALL STARS

MegaRan has earned his spot as a nerdcore mogul the hard way, so I always check for his new drops.  He just dropped this mixtape RNDM BEATS ALL STARS on bandcamp today, and I'm only a few minutes into this 51 minute mix, but I'm diggin' it so I figure I ought'a share...

Tweet of the Week

Donald Trump's presidency is proof that no one in the future ever invents a time machine.

— GhettoManga Magazine (@ghettoManga) February 16, 2017

PREVIEW- Fight of the Century

 I ran across this science-fiction mixed martial arts comic Fight of the Century on Facebook over the weekend, and was blown away by this incredible unlettered five-page preview they dropped yesterday...

A few words about Run The Jewels, and that Machiavelli shit

"Jewel runner, bitch! Make the name stick. Not for sale, but I'm taking payments..."
-El Producto
of Run The Jewels

Dem Atlas barely appears in his new video. SWEET!

Soulful rhymesayer Dem Atlas barely appears in this video for his melancholy alcoholic-rap joint In the Mud, which is one of the things I like about it...

Tweet of the Week

You wanna impress me, Donald? Fix Flint's water. Executive order that shit. No trash talking. No grand standing. Just fix that shit.

— GhettoManga Magazine (@ghettoManga) February 7, 2017

#KickstartTHIS- HEROES OF HOMEROOM C

Check out this press release  and preview art I got from that dude Anthony Ruttgaizer for the release of Aristocrats Comics' new all-ages comic Heroes of Homeroom C.

This episode of #KickstartTHIS has something for everybody!

So I get hit with a TON of Kickstarter campaigns and I generally don't get time to individually address each one.  That sucks, because I started GhettoManga to help get the word out about awesome independent projects.  So now I am rolling out #KickstartTHIS as a recurring feature here on GhettoManga, so that I can hip you to great projects you can back.  So let's dive into it!

Myth Smith concept art by @SamaxAmen

 Whaddup, fam! Check out this concept art I made for Mythworlde Media's monster smashing characters Myth Smith and Makeba the Unconquerable!

Catch DISTRAKT on GENESIS SCI-FI RADIO!

#nowPlaying ONIOMANIA by GOAT (cover art by Samax Amen)

Building and destroying with Napoleon da Legend and Deepak Chopra.

"AZ in 'Doe or Die', I'm rather unique. I'd rather teach you how to fish, because I'd rather you eat..."
-Napoleon da Legend

"I feel like as an artist I need to start drawing pictures of super heroes beating up Nazis..." @OlaBetiku

Peep the new MADVILLAIN track and figure, AVALANCHE!

You swear you stay fresh, but you ain't even know about that new MADVILLAIN figure did you? The one that comes with the 7" vinyl release of MF DOOM and MADLIB'S single AVALANCHE? Oh, you did? I guess I was the only one who didn't know...