Now is a good time to take a look at the longstanding relationship between Hip-Hop culture and comic books. From superhero stage names to comic book style album covers, Hip-Hop has been influenced by comics since the genreās origin. This panel will look at how comic books and Hip-Hop have grown from modest origins to achieve worldwide influence 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.