Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree has been a global phenomenon and
perennial bestseller since the first (of four) volumes was published in
2013, spawning multiple printings, fourteen comic books, and the
author's wildly popular YouTube comics channel, Cartoonist Kayfabe (with
fellow cartoonist Jim Rugg). Yet the series has never been collected
under one cover. Until now.
This omnibus collection includes the original 360-page series with over
140 pages of extra material: a cover gallery of every HHFT book and
comic book cover and back cover Piskor ever created, pages from the
HHFT comic book series that have never been collected, new annotations
of the entire series by Piskor, and much more. Plus a foreword by
Charlie Ahearn and an afterword by Bill Adler.
Hip Hop Family Tree is the entertaining, encyclopedic history of the
formative years of the music genre that changed global culture. Piskor's
cartooning crackles like Kirby and takes you from the parks and rec
rooms of the South Bronx to the night clubs, recording studios, and
radio stations where the scene started to boom, capturing the flavor of
late 1970s New York City in panels bursting with obsessively authentic
detail. With a vigorous and engaging Ken Burns-meets-Stan Lee approach,
the battles and rivalries, the technical innovations, the triumphs and
failures are all thoroughly researched and lovingly depicted. Like the
acclaimed hip hop documentaries Style Wars and Scratch, Hip Hop
Family Tree is an essential cultural chronicle and a must for hip hop
fans, pop-culture addicts, and anyone who wants to know how it went down
back in the day.
