“When I started seeing his visual art pieces channel that rage and power through a new lens it really shook me,” Pizzolo says of why he wanted to work with the artist. “Everybody’s a ‘screenager’ now and the masses tend to listen with their eyes,” he says. Last year, the artist worked with comics imprint Z2 on Chuck D Presents Apocalypse 91: Revolution Never Sleeps, a book that took cues from the album that’s home to protest songs “Shut ‘Em Down” and “By the Time I Get to Arizona.” Chuck also has an art book, Livin’ Loud, due out next month.įor Chuck, doing more with visual art is just another way of reaching people. Pizzolo, who remembers recommending Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back to customers at the New York City record store where he worked, reached out to Chuck after seeing the artwork the rapper has been producing in recent years. “Comics has a legacy of really daring, personal, radical stories that wouldn’t exist without the autonomous zone that comics can be, and I think it’s crucial for creators to seize the opportunity to create comics that really shake things up.” “I really believe that not only can we address things like a Supremacist Court through comics, but I believe we actually have a responsibility to use this platform for radical art because there are so few platforms left to tell stories like this, so it’s a waste to use this space to just tell the same old genre stories you can tell anywhere else,” Pizzolo tells Rolling Stone. “Plus, it had a throwback to the last century kind of vibe mixed in.” “I thought the concept that there are good people out there but are surrounded by adversaries, even though they might look normal, was radical,” Chuck D says. When Pizzolo reached out to collaborate, the story spoke to Chuck. 'The Sandman': Neil Gaiman's Twisted Dark Fantasy Is Finally Brought (Almost) to Life
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