This week's Hip Hop Family Tree on how we were introduced to colorful MCs like Roxanne Shante.

This week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip highlights the famous photo-book by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant. By Ed Piskor

This week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip features the first national rap music tour, the Swatch Watch New York City Fresh Fest `84, by Ed Piskor.

Building toward the NYC Swatch Watch Fresh Festival in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor

The recording debut of young LL Cool J starts off the infamous Def Jam label. A new Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor.

Factoids and trivia about one of the most popular rappers in history. New Hip Hop Family Tree strips begin next Tuesday.

Hip Hop Family Tree trading card #23 by Ed Piskor

Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons conspire to create their own record company in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor,

A Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor.

A Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor.

Introducing the future CEO into the Hip Hop Family Tree. By Ed Piskor

This week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip introduces LL Cool J into the fold. By Ed Piskor

Check out Hip Hop Family Tree Trading Card #122 from Ed Piskor. The trading cards feature will be the best place to see your favorite rappers who come later on in the timeline in the HHFT comics series. Whose card would you like to see next?

The week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor about the origin of the famous Kurtis Blow anthem.

Ed Piskor presents his rejected teenage submissions to Marvel Comics, from a time when all he wanted to draw was superheroes. Now all he wants to do is draw comics about rap music: a new Hip Hop Family Tree is coming next week.

A cautionary Brain Rot strip about digging for Christmas presents and seeing things that cannot be unseen. By Ed Piskor

A Brain Rot strip by Ed Piskor about a cartoonist accumulating his first 10,000 hours worth of experience and the incentives and rewards that abound.

A new tale in the Hip Hop Family Tree, by Ed Piskor

A Brain-Rot, coming of age tale about a young Ed Piskor.

Capturing a key moment in Hip Hop History with the meeting of the Def Jam originators in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor.