Hip Hop Family Tree 1975-1983 Gift Box Set [Paperback]

To celebrate the resounding critical and commercial success of the first two volumes of Ed Piskors unprecedented history of Hip Hop, we are offering the two books in a mind-blowingly colorful slipcase, drawn and designed by the artist. As if thats not enough, in addition to the two books and the slipcase itself, Piskor has drawn a 24-page comic book Captures the personalities, imagery and milestones with a hilarity and efficiency that no other medium could.Ed PiskorsWhen cartoonist Ed Piskor decided to unspool the labyrinth history of one of Americas greatest artistic accomplishments, he spared no effort to immerse his readers in the era of jump suits and scarred vinyl. Everything inAn avid lover of hip-hop music and superhero comic books from a young age, Ed Piskor has combined his two passions to create a remarkable reading experience...&[P]henomenal & Piskor is constantly exploring fresh ways to capture the intensity of the music and the hip-hop scene in his artwork. His storytelling is evolving as the world of his narrative gets better, and the wild growth of the hip-hop industry in the mid-80s suggests that Piskors best is yet to come.One of the defining histories of hip hop& Ed created a portal into the beginning of hip hop, and just saying that a picture is worth a thousand words is a poor way of explaining why its impact is greater than that of a detailed book.The amount of research and history Piskor packs into this book isThese stories are carefully researched and detailed along withAn astonishing feat of cultural archaeology, in both ambition andexecution. The project somehow doesnt seem quite real: a comic-bookhistory of hip-hop going back to the very beginning  the late 70s where lore is thick and documentation scarce. To tell this story in anylanguage would be a challenge; to tell it in the language of comicsfeels like a magical summoning.This isBeing in an Ed Piskor comic isThese are dookie-gold-chain d-o-p-e.The closestl#K