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‘Prince of Cats’ Creator Ronald Wimberly Puts His Own Spin on Static Shock and Ninja Turtles [Art]
Ronald Wimberly's Prince of Cats pulls Romeo and Juliet into the 20th century by recasting Juliet's cousin Tybalt as the leader of an '80s street gang, mashing up Shakespeare with hip-hop culture and Japanese martial arts. And that's certainly not his first riff on popular culture; he's written about organic food-loving ninjas living in Brooklyn and designed characters for the blaxploitation send-