ghettoManga: June 2012

This... video... is... HARD!!!

3 time Wushu Champion Hao Zhi Hua aka Patti Li

Okay... About the new Aesop Rock video... even if you don't like Aesop Rock you should still watch the video for ZZZ Top. If you have to, turn the sound down and play some Wu-tang or Johnny Cash or whatever, but PLEASE watch this!

RZA writes, directs and stars in "Man with the Iron Fists" #RedBandTrailer

I am SOOOOO watching this! Peep the red band trailer below...

SLICK RICK Live Performance @ Howard Theatre in DC

Big shout out to DJ Fusion of Fusebox Radio for hooking me up with this footage of the the mighty Slick Rick in concert...

La Pena Second Skin Mural Project

My good friend Robert Trujillo and the rest of the Trust Your Struggle Collective are participating in a very special community art project to remove and replace an historic mural at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkley, California.

#IFWT--> CHEW:SECRET AGENT POYO!

If you read the award-winning science hero comic CHEW you're already familiar with the series' breakout supporting character, POYO, the fighting rooster. Everybody knows how much I love chicken, cybernetic organisms, and kicking the crap out of Satan's minions, so you know I'm already counting my pennies to get this one...

Jim Mahfood on G4's AOTS + Food's new "LA Ink Stains" TPB & Liquid Television teaser video.

Peep your manz Jim Mahfood aka FOOD ONE on G4's Attack of the Show, then feast your eyes on some pages of his webcomic- turned- autobio- trade paperback Los Angeles Ink Stains. You can also get a peek at concept art for his upcoming Liquid Television show Disco Destroyer. I should'a made 3 separate posts about all this, but I got shit to do. You're welcome.

"Still drop more jewels than schools do, or either tv news that's designed to fool you..."-MF DOOM

Phoenix Jones captures FBI fugitive #ScreamPhoenix

Scream Phoenix: Not in My City © Samax Amen

In this episode of Scream Phoenix, Seattle based costumed activists ("real life superhero") Phoenix Jones and Midknight Jack ~~stalk~~ track and help police catch an FBI fugitive wanted for his alleged involvement in the so-called Mayday Riots...

"Dammit! I already told the second b**ch no!" -Black Dynamite

Man, I might take that Monday off...

Just bought "The Last Prince of Atlantis" for my Kindle Fire

So my lovely wife bought me a Kindle Fire for Christmas, but I had yet to buy a book on it until now. I bought The Last Prince of Atlantis by Leonard Clifton today. I'm excited to read it, even though I haven't read a novel in years...

Godzilla, Orc Stain, and why everyone ♥s James Stokoe

I snagged you a couple of the covers and raw pages from Godzilla: Half Century War, the upcoming IDW mini-series by monster making man of mystery James Stokoe. There's also some Orc Stain pencils and a grip of pages from the unreleased sequel Wonton Soup: War below. Peep it. tough guy...

NEW VIDEO- "Crown" by StaHHr

I just dropped StaHHr's new album on you over the weekend, and now here's a video for the anthem track Crown, and I embedded the album again, 'cause that's how I roll...

preview- "GLORY: DESTROYER Part Two"

The Cast of Glory by Ross Campbell. left to right: a tail belonging to a mysterious soon-to-be-introduced character, Glory's dad Silverfall, Glory's mom Demeter, Henry, Riley Barnes, Glory herself, and Gloria West...

Yup. I'm on the edge of my seat or whatever...

KICKSTART THIS- "The Garlicks" by Lea Hernandez

Lea Hernandez has a Kickstarter campaign in its 11th hour... Well, there's three days left. I guess it's like 10:15... ANYWAYS, she's got a long way to go and a short time to get there, okay? Lea is working on a fresh all-ages vampire family comic called The Garlicks starring Pandora, a middle school aged vampire who wants to be a graphic novelist. The book has a great cast of characters and fun supernatural sit-com style, so I pledged $25 to get a signed copy of the book when it comes out, and I think you should too...

#np "Mother Nature With a Molotov" by StaHHr

So much to say, so little time... There's more dope hip hop out there than I could possibly buy. If you need some rootsy true-school hip hop to put loot on, I gotchoo...

#ScreamPhoenix- Phoenix Jones broke this kid's finger! Sorta...

This kid learned the hard way not to f*** with mixed martial artist turned real life superhero Phoenix Jones. Lesson learned...

#np Black Milk LIVE at Third Man Records in Nashville

Black Milk @ Third Man Records

"East London Comics and Arts Festival" and "Moebius Tribute" Murals by PROBS

Moebius Tribute Mural by PROBS

Got an email about a couple dope murals today by that dude PROBS of End Of The Line art squadron. First up, a tribute to the late, great Jean Giraud aka Moebius (with love in there for MCA and Jimi as well, I think...).

D3rt + Theory Hazit = THR3E

Peep this video for Ol D3rty Hazit by Kentucky native Theory Hazit off his new album THR3E.

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...