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Kerry James Marshall: Rythm Mastr. This Is How It Begins

Kerry James Marshall: Rythm Mastr. This Is How It Begins

Marshall, Kerry James
Robecchi, Michele

Hardcover

Individual Artists

Publisher Price: $55.00

ISBN10: 0847835618
ISBN13: 9780847835614
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 3.76
Height: 1.09 Width: 9.68 Depth: 11.79
Language: English
The iconic comic created by contemporary African American artist Kerry James Marshall.

Marshall, widely considered one of America's greatest living painters and inspired chronicler of the African American experience, has sought to diversify the art historical canon. In the late 1990s, he began working on a series of comics in response to the absence of authentic black characters and authors in the mainstream.

Marshall's comic offers an alternative reality focused on the main character, Rythm Mastr, and his young protégé, Farell, superheroes whose powers derive from the seven gods of the Yoruba pantheon. Marshall's characters debate history, philosophy, and politics in vernacular black English using the graphic novel medium to create an empowering, utopian blend of science fiction and Afrofuturism.

Initially serialized in a daily newspaper and presented as a Carnegie International installation, it has appeared in various incarnations over the past two decades, including light boxes, paintings, graphic prints, and drawings. This volume is the most comprehensive look at the character, its genesis, and its evolution.

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