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Review: X-MEN: Grand Design #1

X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN No. 1
MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel

[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]

CARTOONIST: Ed Piskor
COVER: Ed Piskor
48pp, Color, $5.99 U.S. (February 2018)

Rated T+

X-Men created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

The X-Men are a Marvel Comics superhero team.  The X-Men were created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, and the original and foundation characters first appeared in The X-Men #1 (cover dated: September 1963).  Those characters are Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, and Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) – the X-Men; and their leader, Professor X and their primary adversary, Magneto.

The X-Men and Professor X are mutants, a subspecies of humans who are born with superhuman abilities.  The X-Men fight for peace and equality between normal humans and mutants in a world where anti-mutant bigotry is fierce and widespread.  Magneto and those later allied with him fight to conquer humans so that they can rule over them.

One could say that after 54 years, the X-Men have a fictional history and mythology that is quite convoluted.  However, the X-Men's knotty and tangled state of affairs has less to do with the passage of time and more to do with editorial, publishing, and business decisions regarding the X-Men franchise and line of comic book publications.

Enter cartoonist Ed Piskor.  He is best known for his long running webcomic, Hip Hop Family Tree, through which Piskor chronicles and traces the Byzantine origins and development of rap and hip hop music and Hip Hop culture.  Fantagraphics Books has successfully collected the webcomic into print via graphic album collections and a comic book series.

It was announced earlier in the year that Piskor was embarking on an X-Men comic book project for Marvel Comics.  Piskor would try to condense decades of X-Men comics into a cohesive and linear narrative – X-history as a mega-story.  The result is an announced six-issue miniseries, X-Men: Grand Design, which Piskor writes, draws, colors, and letters in its entirety.  The original announcement said that the series would recount six decades of X-Men (publishing?) history.  I have seen some articles that emphasize Piskor condensing 30 years of X-Men history in Grand Design.  We'll see...

X-Men: Grand Design #1 opens on The Watcher, the classic Marvel character that observes and records events.  One of many, this particular Watcher watches Earth.  His focus is currently on the mutants of Earth, primarily observing the activities of one Charles Xavier, a mutant who will gather a team of mutants that he will name, “The X-Men.”  Together, Xavier a.k.a. “Professor X” and his X-Men will change the world.  But first, Prof. X will have to gather just the right kind of mutants who can become just the students he needs.  Meanwhile, other players, mutants and otherwise, have their own plans for the mutants of Earth.

The first 30 years of X-Men comics begins in 1963 and ends in 1993.  Most of the comics that Piskor references for X-Men: Grand Design #1 were published in that time span, but several were published after 1993, including some that were published in the twenty-first century (a.k.a. “the 2000s”).  Thus, it can be said that X-Men: Grand Design provides a condensed history that it also a detailed list of specific big and consequential moments in X-Men history.

So is X-Men: Grand Design #1 a good comic book, and the answer is yes, but not specifically because it is an X-Men history.  In fact, Marvel Comics has produced X-Men comic books like this in the past, the best being X-Men #138 (cover dated: October 1980), a poignant coda to the “The Dark Phoenix Saga” by the legendary X-Men creative team of Chris Claremont and John Byrne.

X-Men: Grand Design #1 works because of Ed Piskor's aesthetic.  As writer, illustrator, colorist, and letterer, Piskor has created a unique graphical style that recalls comic books of the 1960s and 1970s.  Piskor produces comic books that are a visual, graphics package that is a “hands-on creation.”  Without the help of computers, comic books were once produced by people who used their hands, knowledge, training, and skills to draw, color, letter, cut, copy, paste, and measure in order to produce a physical package that was then sent to the printer to be turned into a physical comics publication.

That “old-timey” quality and Piskor's ability to create large, condensed histories without sacrificing the details of the stories is what makes X-Men: Grand Design #1 a grand comic book.  So it does not matter that this is about the X-Men.  It could be Avengers: Grand Design, Spider-Man: Grand Design or even “Grand Designs” about Superman and Batman; the attraction would still be Piskor.  Because Piskor loves comic books so much, it shows in his fantastic comics.

A
9 out of 10

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for April 4, 2018

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From KyodoNews:  Manga artist Kazuo Umezu has won the "Heritage Award" at the 45th Angouleme International Comics Festival.

From ComicBook:  Disney has assigned Dark Horse the rights to publish a "Frozen" comic book miniseries, the first of new deal for DHC to publish Disney comic books.

From BleedingCool:  Netflix Comics may publish through Dark Horse Comics... initially.

From ComicBookBin:  New Johnny Bullet episode #152 in English.
From ComicBookBin:  New Johnny Bullet episode #152 in French.

From BleedingCool:  Valiant Entertainment has been bought 100% by an investors group.

From ComicBookBin:  New Johnny Bullet episode #151 in English.
From ComicBookBin:  New Johnny Bullet episode #151 in French.

From WashingtonInformer:  Author Jesse J. Holland talks about updating the Black Panther in a new novel.

From ComicBook:  The manga, "Black Clover" (published by VIZ Media in North America), has announced a spinoff, " Asta-kun's Road to Wizard King."

From WhatNext:  15 obscure comic books that were turned into movies.

From Newsarama:  Writer Matt Hawkins talks about the upcoming "Cyberforce" reboot, entitled "Cyber Force."

From BleedingCool:  Thomas Taylor drew the cover art for the first edition of the first Harry Potter novel, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (1997).  He has written and illustrated a number of books.  He now moves into comic books with the graphic novel, "Scarlett Hart, Monster Hunter," to be published in April 2018.

MEMORIAM - From StamfordAdvocate:  Cartoonist Mort Walker has died at the age of 94, Saturday, January 27, 2018.  Born Addison Morton Walker, Mort is best known as the creator of "Beetle Bailey," a comic strip about the world's laziest U.S. Army private.  Walker had worked on the strip continuously since its debut in 1950, getting help in recent years because of his health.  Prolific, Walker has created the still-running domestic gag comic strip, "Hi and Lois."

From BleedingCool:  Scott Snyder will take over "Justice League" for the "Justice League: No Justice" weekly publishing event.

From BleedingCool:  Fantagraphics Books solicitations for April 2018.

From BleedingCool:  9 hot rumors about Marvel Comics in 2018.

From BleedingCool:  Batman's logo and chest emblem - the yellow oval - is coming back.  It was originally used from 1964 to 1995.

From ComicBookBin:  Johnny Bullet episode #150 in English.
From ComicBookBin:  Johnny Bullet episode #150 in French.

From ICv2:  Richard Corben has been awarded the prestigious Grand Prix d’ Angouleme lifetime achievement award.

From BleedingCool:  WTF?  As a boy Marv Wolfman saved the original art to an unpublished Superman comics story by the character's creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.  It will finally be published in the hardcover edition of Action Comics #1000.

From Vulture:  Last year's hit X-Men franchise film, "Logan" has received an Oscar nomination in the category, "Writing (Adapted Screenplay)" for the 90th Academy Awards.  It is the first film based on a superhero comic book to receive a screenwriting Oscar nomination, but is not the first film based on comics to receive a screenwriting Oscar nom (Ghost World in 2002?).  The "Vulture" articles says that this nomination is a "significant breakthrough."

From ComicBook:  This article takes a look back on Dan Slott's time as writer on Marvel Comics' "The Amazing Spider-Man."

From BleedingCool:  The site has a preview of "The Blue Baron" and information about its publisher, Sitcomics.

From Soundcloud:  The Happy Haven podcasts interviews Marvel Comics artist Jon Malin, in which two relatively young guys talk about the good old days.  Malin is apparently really bothered about "indie comics artists" who get jobs drawing superheroes for Marvel and DC.

From ComicBookBin:  Johnny Bullet episode #149 in English
From ComicBookBin:  Johnny Bullet episode #149 in French

From ComicBook:  The artist Bob Wakelin died Saturday, January 20, 2018.  Wakelin is a legend for his cover art for video game boxes, and he also produced cover art for publisher, Marvel UK.

From FlickeringMyth:  "Robocop" is returning to comics in April via BOOM! Studios.

From BleedingCool:  It seems that DC Comics is not informing that artists that co-created the America's Best Comics line with writer Alan Moore that ABC characters are about to start appearing in mainstream DC Comics titles.  The ABC characters are not creator-owned, but are "creator-participant."

From ComicBook:  The films "Logan" and "Wonder Woman" earned nominations for the 30th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award.  The Scripter Award honors both the writer of the screenplay and the authors of books adapted to film.

From Newsarama:  Superman's classic uniform returns, that would be the one with the red trunks, in Action Comics #1000.

From ICv2:  DC Entertainment promotes its new comics line, "The New Age of DC Heroes" with television ads on cable networks.  There are also ads on certain websites and through The CW app.

From TCR:  GLAAD has named its 2018 Media Award nominees, and there is a comic book category.

From BleedingCool:  "Hunt for Wolverine" is a four-part series due in April, written by Charles Soule and artist David Marquez.

From LaughingPlace:  In April, Marvel is launching a new all-ages comic book, Marvel Super Hero Adventures.  The series will run for five issues and is will be written by Jim McCann and drawn by Dario Brizuela.

From BleedingCool:  Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3, the creators of the hit miniseries, "BLACK" (Black Mask Studio), has announced two new titles, the graphic novel, "BLACK [AF]: America's Sweetheart," and the new miniseries, "BLACK [AF]: Widows and Orphans."

From Manga.Tokyo:  List of anime movies due to be released in 2018.

From BleedingCool:  French publisher Glenat to publish "Conan" graphic novels in Europe.  Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian/Barbarian is in the public domain in Europe.

From BleedingCool:  The "companion" comic book to Frank Miller's "300" will finally appear in April 2018.  It is entitled "Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander."

From BleedingCool:  David Baldeon will be the artist on the "Domino" comic book written by Gail Simone.

From BleedingCool:  Jackie Ormes and Carol Kalish have been automatically inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2018.  Kalish was a pioneer in the development of the Direct Market and moved Marvel into new distribution outlets.  Ormes was the first black women newspaper cartoonist and, for a long time, the only one.

From ComicBook:  Former Wildstorm and Warner Bros. executive, John Nee, is the new publisher of Marvel Comics.  Current publisher, Dan Buckley, is now President of Marvel Entertainment.

From ComicBook:  It is the 50th anniversary of Go Nagai as a manga creator.  What better way to celebrate than with the release of a "Devilman" branded scotch?

From CBR:  What is the future of Miles Morales, the Ultimate Spider-Man, the Spider-Man of color.

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics trademarks the name "Multiple Man."

From ChristianPost:  "Shaman King" manga returns in this spring.

From Crunchyroll:  Masakuza Katsura, the original creator of the manga "Video Girl" has drawn a new one-shot "Video Girl" manga, the first since the series ended in 1992.

From Newsarama:  It's official:  2017 is a down year in Direct Market comic book sales.

From BleedingCool:  Tom King announces "Sanctuary," a DC Comics title about a place superheroes go to deal with the trauma from the violence they experience...

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From BleedingCool:  See Ed Piskor's covers for the second printings of "X-Men: Grand Design #1-2."

From BleedingCool:  John Ridley ("12 Years a Slave") is rewriting (or adding to) DC Comics' history in "The Other History of the DC Universe."

From BleedingCool:  The "Conan the Barbarian" property is returning to Marvel Comics, where it was from 1970 to 2000.  Dark Horse published Conan comic books from 2003 to 2017.  The first new Marvel Conan comic book is apparently scheduled for a 2019 release.

From Syfy:  Brian Michael Bendis says that there will be new issues of his creator-owned series, "Scarlet," with Alex Maleev.  Apparently, there is also a TV series in development.

From BleedingCool:  The first Brian Michael Bendis Superman story will appear in Action Comics #1000 and it will be drawn by Jim Lee.

From TCJ:  An interview with Terry Nantier, the founder of NBM, and the company's four decades of publishing European and American graphic novels.

From BleedingCool:  Mat Johnson talks "Incognegro."

From BleedingCool:  A sort of Brian Michael Bendis DC Comics debut.

From CBR:   10 comics books unfinished and missing in action: Miracleman, SHIELD and More

From JapanTimes:  In the Japan's national legislature, the Diet, a bill has been proposed to build of a national media arts center to collect and store original editions of manga and anime cels to prevent them from being taken out of the country.

From TheBeat:  Bendis revealed that his last issue of Defenders will be #10, last issue of Spider-Man will be #240, last issue of Iron Man will be #600, and last issue of Jessica Jones is #18.

From BleedingCool:  Shannon Wheeler, author of the book of cartoons, "Sh*t My President Says: The Illustrated Tweets of Donald J. Trump," will exhibit his cartoons in an exhibition named after the book - in Palm Beach not far from Trump's resort, Mar-a-Lago.

From PGA:  "Wonder Woman" among the nominees in the "best theatrical production" category for the 2018 Producers Guild Awards.  "Deadpool" was among the nominees in the same category at the 2017 Producers Guild Awards.

From BleedingCool:  The version of Valkyrie that appeared in the recent hit film, "Thor: Ragnarok," as played by actress Tessa Thompson will appear in Marvel Comics, beginning with "Exiles #1."

From TheBrownsvilleHerald:  The California-based Latino Comics Expo will hold a sister event in Brownsville, Texas in early February 2018.

From ComicBook:  "One Piece" creator, Eiichiro Oda, pens coming-of-age message to adolescent fans.

OBIT: From BleedingCool:  American Cinamon Hadley inspired artist Mike Dringinberg when he designed the iconic Sandman character, "Death of the Endless," co-created by Neil Gaiman for "The Sandman."  Hadley died Saturday, January 6, 2018 after a battle with cancer.

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics is overseas looking for new talent.  [Hopefully, they will find new talent in marketing, as well.]

From TheGazette:  An article about two books:  “Slugfest: Inside the Epic 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC”  Reed Tucker (Da Capo Press) and “Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel” by Bob Batchelor (Rowman & Littlefield), that talk about the rise of Marvel and DC Comics and the clash between them.

From BleedingCool:  See the "pop-up" comic book shop that DC Comics will open in Washington D.C. for the "Martin Luther King Jr."

From BleedingCool:  Here is the Christmas card Alan Moore drew and sent to friends and family.

From BleedingCool:   Hot (and overrated) writer Donny Cates wants to write a "Deadpool" that Rob Liefeld, the creator of the character, would draw.

From BleedingCool:  Marvel is giving stores free bundles of "Black Panther Starts Here" to stores to help introduce new readers to the character.

From AVClub:  The site lists is "10 most anticipated comics of 2018."

From Tennessean:  Cartoonist Guy Gilchrist is darting the venerable comic strip, Nancy, after producing it for 23 years.  Here are "five, funny reflections" as he departs in February 2018.

From ComicBook:  Brian Michael Bendis officially started at DC Comics Jan. 2nd, 2018.

From TCR:  Tom Spurgeon re-posts a 2010 interview that he conducted with Jaime Hernandez, the co-creator of "Love & Rockets" and North America's best comic book artist.

From BleedingCool:  "The Top 5 Marvel Screw-Ups of 2017" by Jude Terror.

From BleedingCool:  "The Top 5 DC [Comics] Screw-Ups of 2017" by Rich Johnston.

From ComicBook:  Robert Venditti and Tony S. Daniel talks about "Damage," the new comic book that is part of DC Comics' "New Age of Heroes" banner.

From TheDailyDot:  10 fascinating facts about the manga/anime, "One-Punch Man."

From ComicBook:  Hiro Mashima is the creator of the recently ended manga, "Fairy Tail."  He posted a sketch of his upcoming, still-unnamed new manga.

From ComicBook:  Eiichiro Oda shows off a sketch of "One Piece" character, Nami.

From BleedingCool:  Apparently, Mile Morales will no longer be called "Spider-Man," but what the new name is...

From Previews:  Warren Pleece talks about the "Incognegro: Renaissance," the sequel to the graphic novel, "Incognegro."

From ComicBook:  Sana Amanat, the creator of Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, talks diversity in comics.

From VICE:  The site pissed off some comic book industry people with this not-quite Top 10 comics of 2017 list.

Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 3, 2017

MARVEL COMICS

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Review: HIP HOP FAMILY TREE #1

HIP HOP FAMILY TREE No. 1
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS – @fantagraphics

[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]

CARTOONIST: Ed Piskor
EDITOR: Eric Reynolds
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (August 2015)

“Birth of a New Culture!!”

Cartoonist Ed Piskor combined his two great loves, comic books and Hip Hop, and began chronicling the history of Hip Hop culture and rap music.  This was done in the form of a webcomic, Hip Hop Family Tree, which he as been serializing in weekly installments at the website, Boing Boing (boingboing.net) since January 2012.  This is the history of Hip Hop as told through comics – the who, what, when, and where of a culture and music that, from the beginning, refused to be marginalized and relegated to the ash bin of history by its haters.

Fantagraphics Books first collected Hip Hop Family Tree in print in a graphic novel format with Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 (December 2013), the first of three volumes, with a fourth nearly published (to date).  In the summer of 2015, Fantagraphics began reprinting the contents of the graphic novels as a monthly comic book series (the first monthly comic book in the company's four-decade history).

Hip Hop Family Tree #1 (“Birth of a New Culture!!”) reprints contents published in Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1: 1970s-1981.  Welcome to the very beginnings of Hip-Hop.  See the DJs, starting with DJ Kool Herc, who gave birth to a new music and culture in the tenement recreational rooms of the south Bronx in the 1970s.

A Bronx-based party DJ, Herc discovers that during his show, the audience really likes the instrumental “breaks” in the records.  An experimenter, Herc uses loops and mixing to extend the breaks and soon a talented core of other DJs begin to build upon the foundation that Herc develops.  Soon, emcees (or MCs) are “rapping” over the breaks and a new culture is born.  Also, pioneers Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa appear and see the man who invented the term, “hip-hop.”

I first heard about Hip Hop Family Tree in a press release I received from Fantagraphics Books.  I immediately knew that I wold be interested in reading it.  Hip Hop Family Tree is an excellent example of the comics medium as journalism, biography, and history  Hip Hop Family Tree as a comic book is a marriage made in heaven because both comics culture and Hip Hop culture are born of outside art forms.

Creator Ed Piskor’s vintage graphic design style, compositions, and graphical storytelling (complete with Zip-A-Tone and brown paper texture), gives Hip Hop Family Tree that distinctive 1970s comic book look.  His work has a dated feel, which is not a bad thing.  This striking visual and graphic aesthetic makes Hip Hop Family Tree look like a vintage, low-wattage documentary from the 1970s, while giving it the timeless sparkle and sense of fun that comic books (even old comics) have.

Hip Hop Family Tree #1 often reads like a college freshmen history essay written the night before its due.  It is all over the place and jumps from one historical figure and/or place to the next, but this is right process for the subject.  The history of Hip Hop is fast and furious; who did what and when is not always clear and agreed upon.  This is a story, and the story of Hip Hop is like a comic book story – brash and bold and against all the other proper and serious storytelling mediums (like novels, stage drama, poetry, etc.).  Do your thing and break the rules.  The fathers and mothers of Hip Hop did it their way and so does Hip Hop Family Tree.

Hip Hop Family Tree the monthly comic book offers new covers and splash pages drawn especially for the series.  Ed Piskor also presents a “director's commentary” that sights sources for the history of Hip Hop and also gives details on his motivations and processes and also on the research involved in creating each page.

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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