Brain Rot: Beastie Boys, Hip Hop Family Tree

[M|X|Y]

http://boingboing.net/2013/03/05/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-49.html

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[Micodin]

Is this a ongoing series? I saw you post like something like this before. I like the old school comic print.

[M|X|Y]

i think its an overall series about hip hop. i read the beastie boys ones when i see em - havent gone in depth

[Jiberish]

Is this a ongoing series? I saw you post like something like this before. I like the old school comic print.


It is 100% incredibly worth your time. It's a mostly weekly series. It doesn't tell many things people like us wouldn't already know, but it is one of the most concise and fun tellings of the history of hip hop I have ever come across. The first 32 pages are being collected by fantagraphics.

http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/hip-hop-family-tree.html?vmcchk=1

I know from reading an interview with the artist that his plan is to tell the story up to the Death of Biggie & Tupac.

also read the interview to find out how he gets the comic print. It's a really bad ass design idea and pretty hip hop in it's execution.

[Jiberish]

i think its an overall series about hip hop. i read the beastie boys ones when i see em - havent gone in depth

go in depth. It's so worth it. Ed Piskor is one of my favorite cartoonists now. I liked some of his stuff before, he did a book on the Beat Poets with Harvey Pekar, but this is the shit.

[Micodin]

It is 100% incredibly worth your time. It's a mostly weekly series. It doesn't tell many things people like us wouldn't already know, but it is one of the most concise and fun tellings of the history of hip hop I have ever come across. The first 32 pages are being collected by fantagraphics.

http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/hip-hop-family-tree.html?vmcchk=1

I know from reading an interview with the artist that his plan is to tell the story up to the Death of Biggie & Tupac.

also read the interview to find out how he gets the comic print. It's a really bad ass design idea and pretty hip hop in it's execution.

Awesome! I gotta check it out. I'm a comic nerd. My first job was working at a comic book store in NJ. Good times as a youth.

[Jiberish]

Awesome! I gotta check it out. I'm a comic nerd. My first job was working at a comic book store in NJ. Good times as a youth.

Start at the beginning then! It's not until the 10th or maybe further along episode that he gets into the"history of hip hop" but there is an amazing issue where he looks at the similarities of MC's and Super Heroes. Just all around amazing work.

[Jiberish]

http://boingboing.net/2013/08/13/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-69.html

Rick Rubin and hardcore era Beastie Boys feature in this week's episode.

[Brass Monk]

Oddly, the comic book interpretation of the Beastie Boys' punk career is about 10 times longer than their real-life, actual punk career.

[Jiberish]

That Hose sleeve reminds me a lot of the cover of Hot Sauce Part II [The Legend of Curly's Gold]

[beasties#1fan]

This is hella cool

[tt5brevisited]

Yo, that's fresh.

[Jiberish]

This past week was Cooky Puss if anybody cares.

[Jiberish]

B-Boys Makin' with the freak freak, gets a illustrated shout out in this weeks issue.

[Brass Monk]

B-Boys Makin' with the freak freak, gets a illustrated shout out in this weeks issue.

Wow, that's a somewhat obscure track to reference!

[Jiberish]

Wow, that's a somewhat obscure track to reference!

Well this weeks is about Beat Bop, so it's only fair that it got mentioned. I would have been incredibly impressed if he also added a panel of MCA saying "still got love for a record called Beat Bop" off of Nonstop Disco Powerpack.

Still if you are a fan of hip hop, I implore you, read this comic. Go back to the beginning and just sink the time in. Ed knows his shit and I have heard so many cool tracks I never knew existed because of him.

[Brass Monk]

Well this weeks is about Beat Bop, so it's only fair that it got mentioned. I would have been incredibly impressed if he also added a panel of MCA saying "still got love for a record called Beat Bop" off of Nonstop Disco Powerpack.

Still if you are a fan of hip hop, I implore you, read this comic. Go back to the beginning and just sink the time in. Ed knows his shit and I have heard so many cool tracks I never knew existed because of him.

Seems like it could be really good.
All I've seen is the strips posted on this thread that exhaustively document the Bboys' brief punk years, which I really don't find all that interesting (since they sucked as a punk band in my opinion, and the Boys themselves have stated this too).
It sounds like other strips have been made that document the Beastie Boys when they actually became the Beastie Boys and a great group. I'd like to see those.

[Jiberish]

It's exhaustively documenting the "viral propagation of a culture" and it's called Hip Hop Family Tree. It's very nature demands that it talk about stuff that some of us might find boring. But he is masterfully tying it all together.

A new strip comes out just about every Tuesday.

[JohnnyChavello]

Are they all posted online somewhere? Link?

[Brass Monk]

Are they all posted online somewhere? Link?

I was just going to ask that.....

[YoungRemy]

http://boingboing.net/tag/hip-hop-family-tree

in loose chronological order, it doesn't look like they are in the mid to late 80's yet...

[Jiberish]

This link goes in backwards order to how it was posted. If you didn't notice that for yourself. He's mostly up to 1983. The first 30 or so posts are collected in Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. I which I ordered a couple of months ago from fantagraphics, but won't be shipped until November because of back ordering.

[JohnnyChavello]

These are really cool. Kate's expression in the first two Cookie Puss panels is pretty fuckin' hilarious.

The art is really great too - for the most part - but I think the illustrator might suffer from face blindness. None of the artists look like their depictions.

[Brass Monk]

I really enjoyed the Whodini one.
I'm sure the Beastie Boys strips will eventually get good (probably great) at some point.

[phatal82]

anyone else notice they have Mike D doing the prankcall on cookypuss, but from what I have read, it's actually Adrock. To be fair, I thought it was Mike D before I read it too...

[Jiberish]

anyone else notice they have Mike D doing the prankcall on cookypuss, but from what I have read, it's actually Adrock. To be fair, I thought it was Mike D before I read it too...

I noticed that and I have always thought it was Adrock doing the pranking too.

But I know Ed Piskor does a lot of research for each of these strips. So I went back and really really listened. It now sounds like two different voices to me. I think that Mike does the first bit [shown in the strip] and Ad Rock does the majority of the rest. I've always assumed that MCA is saying "These pussycrumbs are making me itch..." etc. And it's clearly not all the same phone call. So maybe they all did bits and it was chopped up?

[Jiberish]

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/10/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-80.html

[Brass Monk]

I noticed that and I have always thought it was Adrock doing the pranking too.

But I know Ed Piskor does a lot of research for each of these strips. So I went back and really really listened. It now sounds like two different voices to me. I think that Mike does the first bit [shown in the strip] and Ad Rock does the majority of the rest. I've always assumed that MCA is saying "These pussycrumbs are making me itch..." etc. And it's clearly not all the same phone call. So maybe they all did bits and it was chopped up?

Pranker is definitely Adrock and only him.

[Jiberish]

Pranker is definitely Adrock and only him.


Brass Monk has spoken.