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If You Love 'Hamilton', Try These Comics Next
If You Love 'Hamilton', Try These Comics Next
If You Love 'Hamilton', Try These Comics Next
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop broadway musical Hamilton is one of the biggest crossover success stories in recent memory, and everyone’s going crazy for its stunning music, compelling narrative, and diverse cast. The musical is about the rise of founding father Alexander Hamilton, from impoverished immigrant, to George Washington’s right hand man, to his downfall following America’s first major sex scandal. If you’ve spun that record a million times already --- or, I guess, streamed it on Spotify a bunch --- and you’re still not satisfied, we’ve got five of the best independent comics that can meet your cravings for more great entertainment in the Hamilton mold.
27th Eisner Awards: Full List of Winners
27th Eisner Awards: Full List of Winners
27th Eisner Awards: Full List of Winners
The 27th Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards took place at the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront San Diego on Friday night, and it was a great night for diversity, for women in comics, for comics aimed at a younger audience, and for the future of the industry.
'Hip Hop Family Tree' Becomes Fantagraphics' First Monthly
'Hip Hop Family Tree' Becomes Fantagraphics' First Monthly
'Hip Hop Family Tree' Becomes Fantagraphics' First Monthly
Ed Piskor's Hip-Hop Family Tree, the ongoing hip-hop-history series from Fantagraphics that has til now come out on an irregular schedule, will this August become the first monthly series published by the company. Both written and drawn by Piskor, each volume of the series has traced a few years in the history of hi-hop, covering the rise of performers including Run DMC and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Watch Ed Piskor Visit His Childhood Home, Reflect On Success
Watch Ed Piskor Visit His Childhood Home, Reflect On Success
Watch Ed Piskor Visit His Childhood Home, Reflect On Success
Graphic novelist Ed Piskor grew up in Pittsburgh at the intersection of hip-hop and comics. That's one of the takeaways from the mini-documentary that accompanied a recent profile of the Hip-Hop Family Tree creator in Pittsburgh Magazine. In it, Piskor visits his childhood home -- now totally dilapidated and overgrown -- and finds his old sketches on the walls. He talks about the playgrounds nearby where hip-hop found a footing in Pittsburgh, and visits the comic shop that helped launch his career.
Marquee Top Shelf Titles Available In New Humble Bundle
Marquee Top Shelf Titles Available In New Humble Bundle
Marquee Top Shelf Titles Available In New Humble Bundle
Image Comics' Humble Bundle offer, which ended about two weeks ago, was a notable success with tens of thousands of readers naming their price for contemporary comics. Top Shelf Productions is part of the site's newest book offer, which will benefit Doctors Without Borders and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Buyers can snag three Top Shelf books through the site: March Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell; From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell and Ed Piskor's Wizzywig.
Ed Piskor Draws The Rob Liefeld/Spike Lee Levi's Commercial
Ed Piskor Draws The Rob Liefeld/Spike Lee Levi's Commercial
Ed Piskor Draws The Rob Liefeld/Spike Lee Levi's Commercial
If you've ever wanted to see the entirety of culture in the early 1990s captured in 35 seconds, then you could do a lot worse than to watch the famous Levi's Button Fly Jeans commercial starring Rob Liefeld, directed by Spike Lee. It's a testament to the overwhelming popularity of comics in general and Liefeld in particular during that era, but more than that, it's a snapshot of the time in pop cu
Best Art Ever (This Week)
Best Art Ever (This Week)
Best Art Ever (This Week)
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwor
Ed Piskor Hip Hop Family Tree Interview
Ed Piskor Hip Hop Family Tree Interview
Ed Piskor Hip Hop Family Tree Interview
Ed Piskor has been having a good year. His hacker culture graphic novel telling the story of Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle, Wizzywig, was nominated for an Eisner Award for the cartoonist's distinctive book design, and was recently translated into a handsome French-language edition from Dargaud. Piskor also became the second recipient of the Columbus Museum of Art and Thurber House 2013 Gra

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