Hip Hop Family Tree

Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree is a vibrant, meticulously researched comics history of hip-hop culture, published by Fantagraphics across 12 issues from 2015 to 2016. Written and drawn entirely by Piskor, the series traces the genre’s evolution from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, chronicling key figures, breakouts, and rivalries with a dense, newspaper-inspired art style. It stands as a definitive, lovingly crafted visual document of hip-hop’s formative years, blending archival accuracy with the energy of underground comix.