Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree Comic

In my estimation these [first] five books [for Fantagraphics] will probably finish around the time of Scott La Rock’s death, maybe a little bit after.

And Amazon just emailed me saying: “Estimated arrival date: December 11, 2013 - December 13, 2013”.

083 - White Lines

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TheBigSleep · Post by **TheBigSleep** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:59 pm

Guessin' everybody who ordered one initially has got theirs by now. What does everybody think? Volume two is done and should be out around the fall of next year.

Ed's Tumblr has some insight into some of the inspirations, from Frank Miller to Jim Steranko to Dick Tracy's Rogues' Gallery, as well as rough sketches of other possible considerations for the front image and the breakdown of the cover he went with in the end.

084 - Run-DMC Releases Their First Record

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085 - Rockit & Grandmixer DST

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086 - Run-DMC's First Performance

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087 - Response to Run-DMC

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088 - Beastie's Party at NYU

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089 - Run-DMC Inspires Dr. Dre

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TheBigSleep · Post by **TheBigSleep** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:10 pm

Bambaataa

Slick Rick

Personalized Drawing for Chief Rocker Busy Bee Starski

Personalized Drawing for Spoonie Gee

Burners for Volume Two:

DMX by Benjamin Marra

Kool DJ Red Alert by Toby Cypress

Kool Moe Dee by Johnny Negron

Kurtis Blow by Jarrett Williams

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:41 pm

yessur got mine a couple weeks ago, dope shit

TheBigSleep · Post by **TheBigSleep** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:08 pm

Awesome man. Here's a drawing and signature in my book:

090 - Beastie Boys and DJ Double R

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foobar · Post by **foobar** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:29 pm

How many volumes will there be? Im thinking about order the first 2 volumes, But it would be better to wait until its complete and order them all in the same order to save shipping costs!

TheBigSleep · Post by **TheBigSleep** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 6:32 pm

Right now Ed is thinking at least five.

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 12:56 am

^that would be dope, i'd cop them all.

foobar wrote:How many volumes will there be? Im thinking about order the first 2 volumes, But it would be better to wait until its complete and order them all in the same order to save shipping costs!

that will probably be a long time tho, like years, since part 2 isn't scheduled for another 9 months from now and this first one took a while to drop. Definitely worth copping though, imo.

Ho1ogramz · Post by **Ho1ogramz** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 12:49 pm

Got started on this last night. Not a massive comic book fan myself, but this is something I can get down with. Love it so far and looking forward to the next installments. Props to Big Sleep.

TheBigSleep · Post by **TheBigSleep** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 1:42 am

Verge wrote:That would be dope, I'd cop them all. ...part two isn't scheduled for another nine months from now and this first one took a while to drop. Definitely worth copping though...

Fantagraphics signed him to a five book deal and they are happy with his work, he's talked about doing five, one book a year, especially since his last comic, Wizzywig, about hacker subculture was five books and he thinks that this is the better comic of the two. So it sounds like at least five, hopefully more. Code name for Volume 3: Roxanne Creates a Def Jam (according Ed's Twitter). Volume 2 is due out sometime in the fall of next year, so starting in September:

Ho1ogramz wrote:Got started on this last night. Not a massive comic book fan myself, but this is something I can get down with. Love it so far and looking forward to the next installments.

Glad to hear it. Ed seems well aware that this is going to get some comic book fans interested in rap history as well as get hip hop heads to read a comic book, there's something there for both demographics. I appreciate that he incorporates tributes to other comic panels as a form of sampling.

TheBigSleep · Post by **TheBigSleep** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:19 pm

Download Volume 1 ('73 - '81) [001 - 044]
Download Volume 2 ('81 - '83) [045 - 088]

TheBigSleep · Post by **TheBigSleep** » Tue Dec 31, 2013 4:22 pm

Volume 2 Both Covers:

TLC by Natalie Andrewson

091 - Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant

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TheBigSleep · Post by **TheBigSleep** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 2:31 pm

Apparently he's actually signed up for six books and is now beginning to tackle more films, such as: Style Wars, Breakin' 'N' Enterin', Graffiti Rock, Beat Street and Breakin', to name a few.

092 - Run-DMC Adds a Third Member, & More

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093 - B-Boys Chuck Chillout and Donald D

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094 - The Earliest Rap TV Shows

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TheBigSleep · Post by **TheBigSleep** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:19 pm

095 - Tuff City Records

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TheBigSleep · Post by **TheBigSleep** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:27 pm

Burners for Vol. 2:

Body Count by Tom Neely

Cold Crush Brothers by Kagan McLeod

096 - The Documentary Film Breakin' and Enterin'

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