Cypress Hill to Mark 30th Anniversary of Debut LP With Graphic Novel

Cypress Hill are celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of their self-titled debut album with a brand new graphic novel, Cypress Hill: Tres Equis, which can arrive in August by way of Z2 Comics.

Cypress Hill: Tres Equis will recreate the origin story of the trailblazing hip-hop outfit; as a launch reads: “Earlier than they grew to become icons, Louis and Senen have been simply a few teenage cholos from round the best way, attempting to remain out of hassle — till a collection of likelihood encounters with each side of the legislation modified their path without end.” The story will function “visitor appearances” from some characters immortalized in Cypress Hill songs, like Officer O’Malley from “Gap within the Head” and Sister Maggie from “Stoned Is the Method of the Stroll.”

“Simply the concept of doing a Cypress Hill-based graphic novel in itself was thrilling to me,” Cypress Hill’s B-Actual tells Rolling Stone. “The chances of telling the tales on this kind are principally limitless and [the comic] can go anyplace we needed to take it.”

Hip-hop scribes Noah Callahan-Bever and Gabriel Alvarez wrote Tres Equis, whereas Felix Ruiz, Jefte Palo, Juan Gedeon, Damion Scott, Angel Hernandez, and Paris Alleyne supplied the artwork. Los Angeles-based tattoo and graffiti artist Mister Cartoon designed the e-book’s cowl.

“Working with Noah and Gabriel was nice,” B-Actual provides. “[I] assume they took our tales and introduced them to life in a novel approach that’s darkish and humorous, which was very a lot the vibe we occurring on the time of the primary album. Felix, Jefte, Juan, Damian, and Paris have been completely killin’ it! It’s superb to see the items come collectively.”

Cypress Hill: Tres Equis is offered to preorder and shall be launched in three codecs: An ordinary softcover version, a deluxe hardcover version, and a restricted tremendous deluxe version, all of which shall be out there in each English and Spanish. The deluxe and tremendous deluxe variations will include a duplicate of Cypress Hill pressed on inexperienced vinyl with new cowl artwork from Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, plus artwork prints from Ortiz, Scott, and Gedeon.