Hager, Steven. 1984. Hip Hop: The Illustrated History of Break-Dancing, Rap Music, and Graffiti. New York: St. Martin’s Press. [ Google Scholar] Weingarten, Christopher (2014-08-26). "See a Raw, Edgy Spike Lee Comic From 'Hip Hop Family Tree' Box Set". RollingStone . Retrieved 9 April 2015. In fact, Ed Piskor has only recently entered his third decade, and is far from being bitter. Growing up in Pittsburgh, PA, at a time when the Steel City was hit hard by the decline of its main industrial branch, Piskor started publishing small underground comics at a young age. Undeniably gifted, Piskor attended the Kubert School, and earned early underground success with his mini-series Deviant Funnies and Isolation Chamber, as well as his collaborative efforts with Jay Lynch. That’s an impossible thing for me to answer because as I keep writing and putting stuff together, I keep finding things that are visually interesting and need to be put in the book. So the better way I can answer that question whenever it comes up is I can tell people I’m signed up for six books, and I’ve finished two so far, and I’m well over halfway done with book three. So just by gauging the way things are moving and how much information is being put into this stuff, the end of the sixth book probably will not get beyond ‘87.

This is a cool idea, exploring the birth of hip hop as a comic book, but either goes into too much detail or not enough.Feitas essas considerações e ponderações, me sinto pronto pra rasgar todo meu estoque de seda: o valor jornalístico e histórico desse trabalho do Ed Piskor é zika! É o tipo de leitura que precisa ser ativa porque cada quadrinho acaba sendo verdadeira janela para o passado! Piskor, Ed (2016). Hip Hop Family Tree Book 4 (1984-1985). Seattle: Fantagraphics. ISBN 978-1606999400. Yet, with some characters, you pull no punches in terms of depicting negative traits. The early Russell Simmons, for example, who is nowadays best known for being a rather Zen person. Nonfiction comics seem to have undergone a flourishing, of sorts. Do you have any opinions about that? Cooper, Martha, and Henry Chalfant. 1984. Subway Art. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. [ Google Scholar]

Brown, Hillary. 2013. Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor. Paste. December 5. Available online: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/12/hip-hop-family-tree-by-ed-piskor.html (accessed on 8 December 2018). Some of these stories have been told before and clearly belong in a book like yours, I’m thinking of Melle Mel and the recording of “The Message,” or the story of the Sugarhill Gang. Others are less obvious, like when Basquiat met Rammellzee. How did you filter these anecdotes? And what are your main sources for your research?

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This first volume covers a decade while the subsequent volumes only cover a year or two each, so I have hopes those might be better.