he gave us for a reading assignment, he gave us james mayain, mayor angelou -- king, allartin lutherf these different books, all of these different writers, and when somebody brought it up to him that they were all black writers, he said to them, they are all american writers. whoi thought, in my head, a, that was so cool. comics thatnt from were funny to comics that meant something. towhen i got the opportunity do it, you know, i had always been influenced by not just stuff like calvin aren't pops -- calvin and hobbes and peanuts, comics.r it was always great to find extra cartoons off of the comics page or the editorial page or the classified section or at a love tell sometimes he had panels or he didn't have panels, and he would do comics just about a lot of different things. not only was it something i liked to do, when i would cover anything i liked to talk about, but this was coming at a time when i really wanted to do a strip that represented me. in the early 90's as a hip-hop , the only people i saw who were into hip-hop were gang members and hoodlums and stuff like that. no,

he gave us for a reading assignment, he gave us james mayain, mayor angelou -- king, allartin luther of these different books, all of these different writers, and when somebody brought it up to him that they were all black writers, he said to them, they are all american writers. whoi thought, in my head, a, that was so cool. comics thatnt from were funny to comics that meant something. towhen i got the opportunity do it, you know, i had always been influenced by not just stuff like calvin aren't pops -- calvin and hobbes and peanuts, comics.r it was always great to find extra cartoons off of the comics page or the editorial page or the classified section or at a love tell sometimes he had panels or he didn't have panels, and he would do comics just about a lot of different things. not only was it something i liked to do, when i would cover anything i liked to talk about, but this was coming at a time when i really wanted to do a strip that represented me. in the early 90's as a hip-hop , the only people i saw who were into hip-hop were gang members and hoodlums and stuff like that. n