MF Grimm article
Posted by: Rich Watson on November 8, 2006 at 8:19 pm
“There’s a lot in common with comics and music, in particular the underground aspect of it… Certain songwriters, certain hip-hop artists, they’re storytellers. That’s the beauty of it. Percy has so easily moved from writing songs to writing a graphic novel. He’s a great storyteller, and he’s now found another medium to tell his stories.”
MF Grimm is the indy rapper who’s coming out with an autobiographical graphic novel next year with Vertigo (that’s Karen Berger quoted above). His is quite a story, to say the least. It will be quite interesting to see how it translates to comics.
Fred November 8th, 2006
Well, looks like Reggie Hudlin was right on this one. At the last Black Panel, he noted how hip hop would be a big influence on comics. Sure enough, DC has bucks its conservative, unhip image by publishing a bio comic on rapper MF Grimm.
The Democrats win back Congress. Now this. We really are living in interesting times.
Always Bet on Bahlactus -- Blog Archive » SHOUT OUT! MF-Grimm Gets Vertigo November 9th, 2006
[...] Rich Johnston over at PopCultureShock cites news about indie-flavored hip-hop artist, MF Grimm, and his autobiographical graphic novel to be published by Vertigo. Get down and check out the post which also links to the main article at The Village Voice. Posted in the shout out! category. [...]
