HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the mighty LANCE TOOKS!

I just wanna take a second to give a birthday shout to cartoonist and former Marvel Comics assistant editor  Lance Tooks (the Lucifer's Garden of Verses series, Black Panthers for Beginners, Graphic Classics, Danger Funnies, Floaters)!

"One day, I got struck by knowledge of Self. It gave me super-scientifical powers..." -Jeru

One of my favorite clients that I don't get to work with enough is mixed martial artist D'Juan "Dirty South Owens.  

The other day he posted a quote by Pan-African scholar Dr. Amos Wilson.  

For whatever reason, that made me think of You Can't Stop the Prophet, hip hop classic by golden era emcee Jeru The Damaja ("damager" because alternative spelling is a hip hoppers prerogative).  You will find both below.

Are You Honoring People's Time Or Wasting It?

"Waste their time, not yours!"

I shared this sketch in my Daily Sketches email with some thoughts about lame marketing tactics this week .  I got some pretty strong words sent back to me.  I still stand by what I wrote, though, and figred some of the GhettoManga readers might wanna see.

Napoleon Da Legend is on his Nerdcore Sheez Again... AND WE LOVE IT!!!

The main reason I don't care about your favorite nerdcore rapper is that real emcees are into all the same cartoons and comics we are... 

#SheGoHard- AFUA RICHARDSON talks GENIUS, BLACK PANTHER, and The Space for Women in Comics

Y'all know all of us here at GhettoManga love the mighty multi-talented artist, musician, and cos-player Afua Richardson, so watching this interview on TVONE's SISTER CIRCLE just gave me an excuse to drop some photos from the Afuniverse...

Hey fam, Check out this old 9-11 tribute from the comic I was self-pushing back in 2002

#ThrowbackThursday indeed...

Hey fam, Since Wednesday was the 18th anniversary of September 11th terror attacks, I decided to share the memorial drawing I made the following year.

I Like Powerful Women #SueMe #SheGoHard

"Give the homeless homies money, so they eat well. 
Went and copped the Audi. Gotta go and get it detailed."
-RAPSODY 

This preview of BLACK HAMMER: Age of Doom #12 is FULL of SPOILERS for the series. #JustSaying

My favorite comic over the last year is probably Black Hammer, the award-winning story of an assemblage of superheroes stranded in a pocket universe that includes only one sleepy farm town.  As Age of Doom (and I assume the entire series) comes to a close, I will take this occasion to speak on my experience as a fan of the series.

Start the day off RIGHT w/ Big Daddy Kane

Who Flattop Rules in '89?

STICK or MOVE?

Make Like a Tree...

Start the day off Right w/RAPSODY #SheGoHard

Let's get going this morning with a couple jawns from that chick Rapsody.

NEW INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM- SOUL EVER LIFT by M.Slago #MusicToDrawTo

Had a weird day today... but I got some new instrumentals from the homie M.Slago in my email.  So it was a good day!

How I Finally met Jeremy Biggers (and Why You Should Care)

#ThrowbackThursday do you know who originally said this quote?

IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!

If someone can let me know where this quote originated, I'll update the posters before I go to print...

Start the Day off RIGHT w/MURS + 9th Wonder

Yooooh! MURS + 9th Wonder together?!?! Now you KNOW you in trouble...

Panel-to-Panel commentary- "BORN AGAIN THUGS: ROOTZ OF TRUTH "

 Here's my Artist Commentary for the new Born Again Thugs short story I worked on for my client Tyger Ra-Seth.  The script was by my GhostWerks bredren Corance Davis.  I did the art and lettering.

“What I had in mind was to make her the most powerful and the most beautiful woman in comics, and I think I’ve succeeded,” -Dave Cockrum, on Co-Creating STORM

Real quick: I saw this on DJ FUSION's FB timeline and had to share! Dave Cockrum was too real, fam!

Former Image sci-fi wet dream VESCELL is on WEBTOONS!

As we're closing in on the end of this decade, one of illest comics of the last ten years just became available to read online.  

I'm talm'bout VESCELL, the urban sci-fantasy mind-bender by Enrique Carrion and John Upchurch.

Here's some preview pages I copped from a post I wrote in 2012:

Our Pain is Real: Racial and Gender Bias in the Medical System

Click it.  There's a drawing in it for ya

A Skrull's gotta eat, fam

[Throwback Thursday] Spidey V. Mysterio by Samax Amen

fam, do you like this kinda stuff?

fam... John Oliver WENT IN on my old J. O. B.

The Ebony Owl Returns...

[SUNDAY COMICS] Sketchbook Wisdom overload, 3 Secrets for Artists, and more

Artists: Time-Sensitive Offer inside

I have a loaded issue of Sunday Comics for you this week, so let's get to it...

Michonne Departs THE WALKING DEAD after Season 10

According to the fine folks at ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, everybody's favorite dreadlocked badass zombie-smashing ronin Michonne will only appear in a few episodes of The Walking Dead's tenth season this fall, as actress Danai Gurira's career enters its next stage...

#NowPlaying- Protestant X "OUTTA PSYCHLE"

(album art by you know who) 😎

End of an Era...

As I mentioned in SUNDAY COMICS, it was recently announced that the hit comic The Walking Dead is officially over, with the release of issue 193.

(P)review- EVENT LEVIATHAN by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev

Check out this brief review of EVENT LEVIATHAN by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev (Daredevil)

[DAILY SKETCH] "It's not that life is better than you think. You are WAY TOUGHER than you think."

Just another Black Book Drawing

As you probably know, I love Spider-Man. So if you give a speech about Responsibility, I'm gonna draw Spidey in the margins (or in my Big Black Book)...

Jeremiah Dirt drops Limited Edition CD w/ promo Poster Art by Samax Amen

Shadow of the Locust frontman Jeremiah Dirt is back with a new record The Cross and the Switchblade, this time a collabo with Khonsu, under the moniker SOLOMON CAIN.  The first 100 fans to purchase copies of the CD will get a promo poster with art by me.

[SUNDAY COMICS] The Brother vs Trump, Samax Sketches Miles Morales, More Ebony Owl, BBWW News, and more

[SUNDAY COMICS] Trombone Soul, The Walking Dead is RIP, FREELANCER LIFE, Dirt poster, and more

Happy Independence Weekend

ALMOST GONE: Limited Edition BBWW 3x3 Vinyl Stickers

Just wanna quickly let you know that we are getting super-low on these Limited Edition BBWW 3x3 Vinyl Stickers, and expect to sell out this week.

HEADKRACK + 100 or So Hot Women + Weird Science + Femme Fatalery = ABRACADABRA

I just got an email from that dude HeadKrack featuring a new video for his song ABRACADABRA.  Krack made a little short film around it, like a Black Mirror version of Weird Science.

My life, according to Jay Electronica...

Rough day creatively you guys. 
but then, Jay Electronica...

THROWBACK THURSDAY: GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1

I ran across this audio dramatization of Giant-Size X-Men #1 today while I was writing my Daily Sketch email, and I just HAD to share:

Robophobic #30- DOMINO'S Robot Pizza Delivery

Christian Rap Album Covers, Poster Art, Comics, and More

Blasts from the past!

#nowPlaying AFRO SAMURAI CHAMPLOO Episode 1

Aww yeah!  The debut episode of Team Red Productions' live action anime mashup Afro Samurai Champloo has hit the internets!  Let's watch it!

Is THIS How the Robots Take Over?

I'm calling it: The first salvo in the robots' attempt to overthrow the human race was fired on Father's Day weekend.  

At Target.

Which Target, you ask?

ALL THE TARGETS!