ghettoManga: August 2012

Michael Jai White & Arsenio Hall talk about "Black Dynamite"

Brandon Graham covers Elephantmen #43

Peep the wraparound cover Brandon Graham did for Elephantmen #43. SPOILER ALERT! Nah, just kidding, I don't know anything about the issue... I just snatched this off'a Facebook...

HOLY CRAP! That WolfSmoke "Bat Man of Shanghai" joint is HARD!

I haven't watched television in months. Not bragging or anything, but I don't think I've seen anything everyone's bugging over since before the Olympics... but this DC Nation Bat Man of Shang Hai short is on YouTube now, so there you go...

DVD REVIEW- "White Scripts and Black Supermen" directed by Jonathan Gayes, PhD

White Scripts and Black Supermen cover art by John Jennings.

In college I minored in Social Science, a combination of Sociology and Psychology. This facilitated lots of ruminating on race, and the the many ways we talk about it as individuals and as a society. Also being a card-carrying comicbook ~~nerd~~ enthusiast, I jumped for joy at the thought of White Scripts and Black Supermen, a documentary featuring scholarly discourse focused on the genesis of black superheroes at all-white companies like Marvel and DC...

"Prelude to Scrap Mettle" by Columbo Black #DownLoadThis

Shout out to that dude Lex Boogie from the BX for dropping this link on the Twitter machine. True-school Compton emcee Columbo Black is dope. Peep these tracks that didn't make it onto his upcoming album Scrap Mettle, and download via the miracle of Bandcamp!

Preview Video and Art: "CHRONICLES of PIYE" a new African Fantasy by Richard E. Gaskin & Chris "Crazyhouse" Miller

Looks like Chris Miller (Chris Crazyhouse, Nukkullheadz, ACTION! Magazine) is getting his black Jack Kirby on. Here, he's working with writer Richard E. Gaskin on Chronicles of Piye, An African inspired fantasy graphic novel they are looking to release in late 2012 in both digital & print form.
peep some promo materials I found below...

PREVIEW- "Infernal Man-Thing" #3 by Steve Gerber & Kevin Nowlan

Man-Thing #3 cover art by the mighty Art Adams

Guru + Common + Bob James + Fritz the Cat = Yes

Somebody shared this youTubery of the late great Guru's State of Clarity with me today. Love the Fritz the Cat animations...

"You must protect your nuts at all times, no matter how minute or hairless they are..." -Black Dynamite

Here's some promo clips from the next episode of Black Dynamite: 'Apocalypse This!' Or 'For the Pity of Fools,' AKA 'Flashbacks Are Forever...

Preview some Multiple Warheads interior and cover art by Brandon Graham!

Multiple Warheads (Whale Restaurant) by Brandon Graham

That dude Brandon Graham dropped a new blog post this week, including a link to the Prophet #28 preview I posted yesterday. Anytime Brandon links to my blog, traffic spikes dramatically. I'll show my gratitude by stealing some of his art and posting it here, 'cause that's how the eff I roll...

TEDxTALKS : Sinchon- LeSean Thomas talks about Successful Failure in the Korean Animation Industry

In this 15 minute TEDx Talk, animated TV producer LeSean Thomas (The Boondocks, Black Dynamite) is very open and honest about his decision to move to Korea.

PREVIEW "Prophet #28" by Brandon Graham & Giannis Milonogiannis

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...