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ILLuminati: A Thriller Where Hip-Hop & Comics Collide

Created by AWA Studios

Charlamagne Tha God & AWA present a supernatural story by groundbreaking Black creators — featuring homage art to seminal albums!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Week #3 Update — Variant Art Revealed!
about 2 months ago – Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 03:57:21 PM

HIP-HOP HOMAGE ART REVEALED!

The ILLuminati campaign features 5 hip-hop variant covers created by world-renowned and fan-favorite artists. Scroll down to see the art!

Axel Alonso, AWA Chief Creative Officer, launched the revolutionary and highly acclaimed hip-hop variant cover initiative at Marvel and Charlamagne personally selected the albums to celebrate the groundbreaking music and album art of each record.

The art will be featured in the book as chapter breaks, but they are also available as an add-on bundle where you receive the entire ILLuminati story as single-issue comics with the hip-hop variant art as the covers!

What’s your favorite hip-hop album cover? Tell us in the comments!

STRETCH GOALS

We’ve reached our first stretch goals — let’s keep it rolling!

If we reach our next goal, we will add a free KERON GRANT Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of My Blood DMX Homage Art Print to everyone’s order. Upgrade your order or share this with a friend to get us to our next stretch goal!

Stretch goal rewards are available for anyone backing a physical tier.

DENYS & AXEL ON TRAP NERDS

“On today's episode, we’ve got two legends in comics on the show: legendary artist and Milestone co-founder Denys Cowan and former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, who is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of AWA Studios.”

Listen as Denys and Axel talk to the Trap Nerds team about how ILLuminati came together, their past work at Marvel and DC Comics, what they want adapted from comics to TV/film, and so much more!

Listen to The Trap Nerds podcast.

Week #1 Update — Stretch Goals!
2 months ago – Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 02:49:15 PM

Killer First Week

Thank you! We reached out initial goal a day after launch! 

Not only that, we are getting close to reaching 20 countries around the world with this campaign! Charlamagne and the creative team are excited to see this campaign continue to grow and reach hip-hop and comics fans everywhere. 

We reached our initial goal — but we're not stopping there!

STRETCH GOALS

Now you can help us get to our stretch goals!

Reaching our next goal means that we can add free rewards to your orders — anyone on a physical tier can get free 6x6 inch prints of the hip-hop homage art, exclusive sticker sheet, and more. As we hit our stretch goals, everyone benefits!

Hip-hop homage art will be revealed...

EXCLUSIVE MERCH

Have you checked out the exclusive merch?

Limited-edition ILL hat and ILL sweatshirts, featuring a signature logo piece, make these unique for the 20 backers lucky enough to add these to their order.

You know who else will have this merch? Charlamagne himself! These exclusive pieces will be produced with high-quality materials at a specialized printers to make this a showcase item. If these sell out, we might drop some new exclusive merch soon!

Charlamagne Tha God rocking ILL hat on The Breakfast Club!