One of Hip-Hop’s defining qualities is its very lack of easy definition. It’s a style, it’s a culture, it’s an attitude. Common usages of the term are applied to fashion, to dance, to visual art, to film, to people, to…
Category: Comics
Young Avengers: Now And Forever.
Last week, Marvel Comics released Young Avengers #15, the concluding issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s teen superhero saga. Over the last year, the series built a passionate fanbase for its blend of emotional drama and sweeping action, for…
Interview: Creators Vivek J. Tiwary And Andrew Robinson Discuss “The Fifth Beatle”
Vivek Tiwary and Andrew Robinson’s The Fifth Beatle is a new graphic novel that tells the story of Brian Epstein, a man who discovered and managed The Beatles, and built them from a modestly popular local band into the most…
New Comic Reviews: Sex Criminals, Numbercruncher
I love comic books. I love the medium, I love the format, I love the potential inherent in words and pictures, of stories bound only by the creators’ imagination. And right now seems to be a particularly good time for…
Hip-Hop Comics: Jim Mahfood part one (Los Angeles Ink Stains and various early works)
My first exposure to Jim Mahfood’s work was a single-page story in The Song Of Mykal, an anniversary comic published by one of my favorite comic shops (Atlantic Fantasyworld, in Santa Cruz, California). The strip followed a heroic pooch named Smoke…
From The Archives: Rolling Stone UK on Marvel Comics, 1969.
Rolling Stone’s 1971 cover story on Marvel Comics (discussed here) is one of the best-known and most-referenced documents of the comic book industry in that era. It’s a glimpse inside Marvel at a seminal moment, from an era when comics…
Art Baltazar & Franco’s all-new Aw Yeah Comics!
My adoration for the work of Art Baltazar and Franco is no secret. I was pleased to hear of the wild success of their Kickstarter campaign to produce their new comic book series — Aw Yeah Comics! (They even managed…
C2E2 2013: The weekend in words and photos.
After the wonderful time we had at C2E2 in 2012, it was never in doubt that we’d return to Chicago this year for another round of multi-media excitement (and delicious deep-dish pizza). We looked at art, attended programming, presented a…
Depth Of Field’s Hip-Hop & Comics panel at WonderCon Anaheim 2013 – photos, video, and recap.
On March 30th, 2013, Depth Of Field went to WonderCon in Anaheim, California to present the latest in our “Hip-Hop & Comics: Cultures Combining” panel discussions. We assembled a selection of notables from the world of comics and music: Toni…
Hip-Hop Comics: James Reitano’s Nineteen Eighty-Five
James Reitano grew up in Santa Cruz, California, and Nineteen Eighty-Five is his semi-autobiographical tale of a teenager attempting to experience and participate in graffiti culture while living in a small seaside town. It’s a unique kind of historical Hip-Hop…