Ed Piskor’s Eisner-nominated Hip Hop Family Tree has been a music-geek favorite since Boing-Boing began running the serialized comic in 2012. For those unaware, Piskor — whose lifelong love of rap was ...

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Depending on who you ask, the words "hip-hop" were invented by Lovebug Starski or Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins or maybe even the Sugarhill Gang (but probably not). "In the first Hip Hop Family Tree book ...

Hip Hop Family Tree may soon be coming to a TV near you. Transforming Hip Hop Family Tree into an animated series seems like such a good idea, it's shocking that no one has done it sooner. A Hip Hop ...

In this mini-comic from the Hip Hop Family Tree box set, Rob Liefield and Spike Lee make an unforgettable moment in comics history, joining forces for a Levi's commercial that blew the mind of artist ...

Hip hop as an art form turns 50 years old in 2023. That means it's a perfect time for Fantagraphics to release a new hardcover collection of Ed Piskor's seminal Hip Hop Family Tree, a comic that ...

Hip-hop turned 50 this year — and to mark the occasion, publisher Fantagraphics is putting out a new hardcover omnibus edition of Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree. Check out the exclusive excerpt from ...