Ed Piskor is a professional cartoonist whose work has been in print since 2005. He began by illustrating comics for the acclaimed writer Harvey Pekar. His artistic interests later led him to explore the history of hacking and phone phreaking, inspiring a significant self-published project that delves into these themes. Beyond his comic work, Piskor has also contributed his distinctive character design skills to animation for television.
Ed Piskor’s acclaimed graphic novel series continues! Book 3 highlights Run DMC’s rise to fame and introduces unassailable acts like Whodini, The Fat Boys, Slick Rick, and Doug E Fresh. The Beastie Boys become a rap group. Rick Rubin meets Russell Simmons to form Def Jam. The famous TV pilot to the dance show Graffiti Rock and the documentaries Style Wars and Breakin’ and Enterin’ are all highlighted in this comprehensive volume spanning 1983-1984.
Book 4 charts the rise of Dr. Dre and Def Jam records, and introduces new branches on the "tree": Will Smith, Salt-N-Pepa, Rakim, and Biz Markie. This volume is also jam-packed with films Hollywood released in an attempt to cash in on the phenomenon, like Breakin’, Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo, Beat Street, Krush Groove and more.
Originally serialized on the hugely popular website Boing Boing, The Hip Hop Family Tree is an encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop capturing the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars
Tak, tak, ziom! Sławny młody rysownik Ed Piskor chce Was trochę podszkolić w
oldskulu i dlatego przygotował totalnie rozrywkową i encyklopedyczną kronikę
najbardziej amerykańskiej ze sztuk, która podbiła cały świat. Genealogia Hip
Hopu, która debiutowała w sieci na portalu Boing Boing, poprowadzi Was swoimi
obsesyjnie szczegółowymi kadrami przez parki i domówki południowego Bronksu po
kluby, studia nagraniowe i radiostacje, gdzie rodziła się nowa scena. Na
planszach tego komiksu ożywają tak magnetyczne i wspaniałe osobowości jak
Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, DJ Kool Herc, The Sugarhill
Gang i Funky 4+1. Poznajemy też obdarzone wcale nie mniejszą charyzmą szare
eminencje hip hopu: Russella Simmonsa, Sylvię Robinson, Ricka Rubina oraz
manhattańskich mistrzów graffiti pomagających przebić się hip hopowi do
mainstreamu: Fab Five'a Freddy'ego, który ziomił się z Debbie Harry, Keithem
Haringiem i Jeanem-Michaelem Basquiatem.
The sequel to the critical smash hit X-MEN GRAND DESIGN is here - and it's ALL-NEW and ALL-DIFFERENT! Witness Wolverine, Thunderbird, Colossus, Storm, and Sunfire suit up as X-Men for the very first time all over again! And then the Shi'ar! The Brood! The Starjammers! Watch as Marvel's merry mutants take to the stars. See the first X-Men adventures of Kitty Pryde and Carol Danvers. Marvel at the conclusion of the now-classic DARK PHOENIX SAGA. All through the lens of indie auteur ED PISKOR, who lovingly researches, writes, pencils, inks, colors and letters every page just for you! This volume also includes an issue of Giant Size X-Men and pinups by Art Adams, Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee and Joe Madureira masterfully recolored by Ed. Presented in the same dynamic, oversized format of the best-selling Hip Hop Family Tree (9" x 13"). COLLECTING: X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN - SECOND GENESIS 1-2
Over six tumultuous decades, the X-Men have carved a singular place in comic book lore and popular culture. Now, New York Times best-selling author Ed Piskor (Hip-Hop Family Tree, Wizzywig) takes you on a pulse-pounding tour of X-Men history unlike anything you've ever experienced before - an intricate labor of love that stitches together hundreds of classic and obscure stories into one seamless X-Men masterpiece! All three of Piskor's GRAND DESIGN series are collected in a single volume for the first time - taking you from Professor X's formation of the original team, through the Second Genesis of the All-New, All-Diff erent X-Men and the devastating Dark Phoenix Saga, to the 1980s epics like Inferno that pushed mutantkind to the brink of X-tinction! COLLECTING: X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN (2017) 1-2, X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN - SECOND GENESIS (2018) 1-2, X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN - X-TINCTION (2019) 1-2
Over six tumultuous decades, the X-Men have carved a singular place in comic
book lore and popular culture. From their riotous birth in the '60s, to their
legendary reboot in the '70s, to their attitude adjustment in the '90s, to
their battle against extinction in the '00s, the X-Men have... číst celé
In this second Red Room collection, fan-favorite the Decimator presents… The Rat Queens! And unfortunately for them, they’re front and center in the Decimator’s most horrific red room broadcast yet! Also, hoodie horror comes to Red Room by way of the Punkinz: two sociopathic, aspiring red roomers who quickly make a name on the scene with their amateur snuff films. Fueled by a mutual passion and talent for murder, the young sweethearts aim to be the most notorious and wanted killers on the dark web… Plus, much more, including the mysterious island of Pitcairn, home to a native civilization that has been sacrificing their people to the gods for generations in hopes for a good crop season — until bitcoin pirates discover the uncharted island and hatch their own plans. The book also includes Piskor’s exclusive "Director’s Commentary" for virtually every page, tons of process art, sketchbook material, and other surprises exclusive to this collection.Red Room’s first "season," The Antisocial Network, was the breakout smash-hit comic book series of 2021, with over a quarter-million copies sold of the series to date. Who are the red room killers? Who are the victims? Who’s watching? Who can stop it? Trigger Warnings escalates the stakes, with Piskor pushing his masterpiece of modern horror in new directions and delivering the cyberpunk, outlaw, splatterpunk goods as no one else can.
Collects X-Men: Grand Design - X-Tinction #1-2 - plus the classic Uncanny X-Men (1981) #268, masterfully recolored by Ed. Presented in the same dynamic, oversized format of the best-selling Hip Hop Family Tree. The series that has critics and fans raving returns for its final installment! The fall and rise of the X-Men revisited! Relive the now-classic storylines of the 1980s - including the Mutant Massacre, the Fall of the Mutants, Inferno and the X-Tinction Agenda! And it's out with the old and in with the blue and gold as the X-Men enter the '90s! An explosive era of X-Men history is revisited, expanded and polished for a new generation - including the debuts of such 1990s mainstays as Jubilee, Gambit, Psylocke, Mister Sinister and more! The final chapter of this best-selling prestige series caps off the first three decades of X-Men lore in one neat package - all of it brought to life by the master of graphic fiction himself, Ed Piskor!
