This panel will look at how comic books and Hip-Hop have grown from modest origins to achieve worldwide influence, how they have intersected and blended, and how they have incorporated, encompassed, and inspired other aspects of pop culture- including fashion, graffiti/street art, dance, animation...among other related expressive forms. The relationship between hip-hop and comics has since become two-sided, as seen with a series of Marvel comic book covers that recreate several classic hip-hop albums with the publisher's characters (circa 2015). With that being said, the questions remains: why has superhero culture slowly-but-steadily weaved its way into the overall schema of hip-hop, and vice versa? Let's discuss.
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