Charlamagne Tha God Teams With AWA For Upcoming ‘ILLuminati’ Graphic Novel
Written by djfrosty on September 17, 2024
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Two years ago, Charlamagne Tha God revealed that he would be delving into the world of comic books by collaborating with AWA Studios to develop some new graphic novels. Now, The Breakfast Club co-host will be continuing his work in that field as he will be adding his touch to the upcoming fantasy thriller graphic novel ILLuminati.
Variety is reporting that Tha God will once again be teaming with artists, writers and artisans for their upcoming graphic novel, which will be “playing into the whole Illuminati Secret Society of the of the music industry.” To help fund the project AWA will be utilizing a Kickstarter campaign to get the ball rolling. With the recent Diddy indictment it will be interesting to see if the illuminati angle of the story will help garner that much more interest amongst readers given the rumors that the secret society plays a big part behind the scenes in the Hip-Hop industry.
Variety reports:
Charlamagne helped create “ILLuminati” in collaboration with a group of seasoned comic creatives including Bryan Edward Hill, Denys Cowan, Bill Siekiewicz and Sanford Greene. The plan is for Charlamagne to curate five custom covers for “ILLuminati” that will pay tribute to classic hip hop albums. The Kickstarter campaign launches today and runs through Oct. 22.
He thinks the novel’s twisty story about the death of a young female hip hop star and her psychic twin sister who comes to Los Angeles to find out what happened. It’s billed as following “a dark conspiracy that snakes its way through the pillars of power, fame, and popular culture.”
“Nobody even does satire anymore because there’s nothing satirical about life. Reality is just the most strange thing,” Charlamagne said. “A lot of these stories are just exaggerated things that have already happened, or, you know, our take on things that have already happened. So it’s just interesting to kind of bring that to life in comic books.”
Aside from being a part of the project’s creation, Charlamagne will also be tasked with curating five variant covers for ILLuminati, which will pay homage to some of Hip-Hop’s classic albums. Which albums will be chosen for inspiration remains to be seen, but we can’t wait to see what Tha God has up his sleeve when it’s all said and done.
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