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NEW "Oh, Jay..." by Jay Kelley (aka @Doctor_Hue) & @SamaxAmen!

Welcome to the latest installment of Oh, Jay... a comic strip inspired by Houston-based writer/comedian Jay Kelley's social media updates...

"The mask was bright as lightning. Same type of shinin' got them Teen Titans fightin'..." -MF DOOM

SQUEEEE!!! Kool Keith got the supervillain MF DOOM on his single Super Hero which dropped last month, while I was sleeping. But it's still dope now, so here you go...

IN STORES NOW- Cage + Fist #8

The black super hero breaks his best friend out of jail... WAIT! Stay with me now, it's the latest issue of Cage & Fist, also known as Power Man & Iron Fist #8! Peep the free preview (without much ado from me) below.

#NowPlaying- BASQUIAT ON THE DRAW by Apollo Brown & Skyzoo

I can't deal with you right now, America... Retreating back into my black books and brain-rattling street hop, I ran into Basquiat on the Draw by Apollo Brown & Skyzoo... Bars...

"If iron sharpens iron THEN YOUR CREW MUST HAVE ANEMIA!" @iamKRUM x @illmindPRODUCER

Whoa. The Artist Formerly Known as Playdough gets ig'nant and indignant over an ominous !llMind beat for Flare Factor...

"B.I.G. said it was a Dream, now its' a living thing. We true and Living Kings..." -Yasiin Bey

"Hip hop ain't dead. Hip hop's mislead. Instead of a new sound, it went pop instead" @OzayMoore + @th3oryhazit

I don't complain about wack raps. I just listen to dope raps instead. So in case you been sullyin' yourself wit that wack sheet, shutupyouface and wash your ears out with Same Team Suckas by Ozay and Chris (formerly Othello + DJ Vajra) featuring Theory Hazit (still known as Theory Hazit)...

"Brothas like me been waitin' for it since I was eight years old..." @MethodMan, on @LukeCage on @Netflix

The intersection of comics, hip hop, art, and culture that is the LUKE CAGE Netflix show exemplifies everything we stand for here at GhettoManga...

Wanna see that Kevin Owens illustration by Sean Mack? (aka @ShizukaSam)

Jonah Hill's black stunt double, eligible bachelor, and underground funnybook illustrator Sean Mack (Revolutionary Times, RED Series) hooked up a KOMania illustration for all the WWE heads. Art nerds can rock to the speedpaint video below...

The immortal homosapien DEL Jumps on this track with CHUUWEE to give us a FREE EDUCATION

"Precious stones and metals don't equate.

The green paper that they chase is fake."
-DEL

That dude @CFluxSing SMASHED the artwork for that PHIFE "Nutshell" Serato Vinyl!

Some DOPE Cage + Fist cover arts by Eric Canete, @SanfordGreene, @MingDoyle, and more...

Newsarama editor Chris Arrant posted an awesome interview with David Walker and Sanford Greene, the dynamic duo behind Cage & Fist (everyone else calls it Powerman & Iron Fist, but I think Cage & Fist sounds better... plus, I'm stubborn and shit).

That new video for the DJ Shadow/Run the Jewels track NOBODY SPEAK is my SHEET! #HipHopIsALIVE

The diplomat rap battle-turned royal rumble that is the video for the Run The Jewels track Nobody Speak (off DJ Shadow's new album The Mountain Will Fall) caught our attention over here at GhettoManga HQ this week!

How can you NOT love the mighty @AfuaRichardson? #sheGoHard

You're reading this blog because you love comics, hip hop, art, and/or the subculture(s) thereof. So you must love a polymath like Afua Richardson who smashes comics, makes music, and builds bridges for creators on the low, right? Just watch this video and act like you know...

I'm really proud to be involved in that new @Headkrack video TURN ME UP...

I did the illustrations for the video to Headkrack's song Turn Me Up a while back, and I had already seen the video footage and heard the song many times. So you would think I would be already be prepared to the positive response the video has gotten since Krack dropped it last week. I wasn't...

WATCH THIS SHIT! "Swarm (f/@PharoaheMonch)" by AFRO + Marco Polo

You like dope raps, right? Nice beats too, hmm? How 'bout zombies? Everybody likes zombies, yeah? You already fux with Swarm, the new video from A-F-R-O POLO (guest-starring Pharoahe Monch) and you ain't even know! Peep...

PREVIEW- The first chapter of PURGE: A NEW DIRECTION is complete, and ready to go to print!

Roosevelt Pitt has assembled an impressive team to produce his afroturist superhero comic Purge: A New Direction#1 that includes Larry Stroman, Mshindo Kuumba I, and the Xong brothers. The issue is ready to go to the printer, with preorder loot from Kickstarter backers. Peep some preview pages below...

DANG! Have y'all seen that Disney + Salvador Dali animated short DESTINO?

In my middle and high school art classes, I always cut for Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali, whose paintings always seemed to have a cartoon-like quality. So it makes sense that Dali collaborated with Disney and them back in the day. Peep this incredible animate short Destino below.

This would be the best @AdultSwim or @ComedyCentral cartoon show ever...

"I'm gonna SMOKE you..." Emperor Zombie

I'm not sure what I was doing back in 2006 when the Sci-Fi Channel dropped this pilot episode for a cartoon series based on Mike Mignola's Eisner-winning historical action comedy horror comic The Amazing Screw-On Head, but somehow, I missed it. Well, I finally saw it this weekend via the copyright-disregarding magic of YouTube, and it was JUST PERFECT!

FOODIE COMIX ALERT! Peep this 10 page preview of 'SPACE BATTLE LUNCHTIME' by Natalie Riess!

Hungry? Check out this phat 10 page preview of Space Battle Lunchtime! It won't satisfy your hunger, but your eyeballs will thank you!

Three words: LUKE! CAGE! TRAILER!

"I'll never get tired of seeing a bulletproof black man."
-executive producer Cheo Coker

Start the Day right w/ Pharoahe Monch, Busta Rhymes, Redman, Method Man, Shabaam Sahdeeq and Lady Luck

If you like Eminem but you don't like Pharoahe Monch... Well, I'm not gonna say you racist, but you got some 'splainin' to do. Anyways, here's a ~~all-star~~ mostly-star posse remix of Pharoahe's classic jawn, Simon Says...

"I'm from the very same block where glocs get popped, yet the kids play ball and hopskotch..." @DaShade

Here's a couple music videos from one of my favorite emcees, Da'Shade Moonbeam. You know... Just because.

That dude Joe Quesada's Poster art/ Concept sketch for the Luke Cage Netflix show

"Stuck within a system pathway from school to prison. Substituting racist concepts for words & euphemisms" @TeamNDL

5 Reasons Why we LOVED this @Snickers Ad from this week's @DCComics lineup!

This slick one panel Doomsday gag is from DC's new SNICKERS ad campaign, in books this week. This is a great ad strategy for comics for several reasons:

The upcoming Genndy Tartakovsky comic CAGE points to serious opportunity for MARVEL

Y'all already know we love Blaxploitation era Marvel super hero LUKE CAGE (we did a tribute issue of the magazine dedicated to him after all...). We also fux with visionary animation heavyweight Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory). So rocking with this new miniseries CAGE is a no-brainer...

Cage and Fist #6 comes out this week, so I guess I should figure out what Civil War II is about...

My two biggest pet peeves about buying mainstream comics are Fill-in Artists and company-wide Crossovers, and wouldn't you know the latest episode of my favorite Marvel comic is burdened with both. Hashtag AintThatAbitch. You're lucky my dude David Walker wrote you, Cage & Fist #6, or you better believe I would gladly leave your monkey ass in the store...

Check out this 10 page preview of THE MIGHTY ZODIAC #4

Oni Press's anthro martial arts epic The Mighty Zodiac returns to comic shops this week with issue 4. I got a whopping 10 page preview for you below.

This chick Katie Longua is SICK with the comics, friend! SICK, I SAY! #SHEGOHARD

(Morpheus voice) No one can be TOLD how dope Katie Longua's comic Munchies is. You must see it for yourself.

"Nose so big you can smell what the Rock is cookin'." @CRANKLUCAS, teaching rappers how to freestyle #lol

Emcee, producer and comedian Crank Lucas is back teaching these rappers how to freestyle...

Epic urban fantasy "Legend of the @Mantamaji" to Return with Fourth Volume this winter!

"It's a constant war walking with enlightenment. That's the life you symbolize like the heiroglyph." @Venomous2000

Jersey bred emcee and educator Venomous2000 dropped the new video for Warrior Ways in my inbox today, so I figured I'd bless you...

#WednesdayWebcomic of the Week BOUNCE! by Chuck Collins

This week I wanna spotlight BOUNCE, a fictionalized semi-biographically inspired webcomic by talented and hardworking cartoonist Chuck Collins. Chuck uses his hefty drawing arm to wrangle the tipsy and entitled at a New York bar to pay the bills, then turns it into comedy gold...

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