Stress Magazine’s Comics from New York City’s Golden Age of Hip Hop
In New York City in the early ’90s, during the Golden Age of Hip Hop, a group of friends who ran around the streets of the five boroughs as graffiti vandals, revolutionary thinkers, artists and pot dealers were assembled by Alain “Ket” Marideuna to launch Stress, a hip-hop magazine credited for breaking such artists as Jay-Z, Foxy Brown, Eminem, and Raekwon, among others. One of the originals members of this crew was Steve Marcus, and since the premiere issue in 1995, Marcus’ comic graced its back page. His comic was called The People’s Comic and in later issues he created another comic to replace the People’s Comic titled, B-Baby. These comics were known throughout the hip hop community for expressing revolutionary ideas and for that Marcus acquired the nickname in the streets of New York as The Rev or The Reverend and later went on to create comics for The Source and release the independent underground Hip Hop animated classic, Three Thug Mice. It’s been 23 years since Stress Magazine’s last issue and in celebrating the 50 years of Hip Hop this year, Marcus’s Stress Magazine comics are on exhibition for the first time at the Comic Museum in Krakow, Poland.
Muzeum Komiksu (Comic Museum)
UI. Sarego 7/10A
Krakow Poland
https://muzeumkomiksu.eu/index_eng.html