1981-1983 sees the music gain its first commercial success with mega-hits like Afrika Bambaataa’s Planet Rock and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s the Message. Volume 1 covers the 1970’s to 1981 and introduces old school originators like DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. After the success of those serialized comics, the creator Ed Piskor has brought these first strips together in a accessible set of volumes, Hip Hop Family Tree. Originally conceived as a strip that appeared online on the popular website Boing Boing, new one sheet strips are still released regularly in this manner. The content of each volume is the specific history a specific time frame in the evolution of Hip Hop culture, its pioneering, MC’s, DJ’s, record labels, graffiti artists, and break dance crews. It looks like it represents comics that come from another era. It also intrigued me because it has a sort of flat, dated, faded quality to the colors and illustrations. It’s rather large and feels substantial and hefty in your hands. The first thing that caught my eye about Ed Piskor’s graphic novel Hip Hop Family Tree was its size.
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