Rythm Mastr: Every Beat of My Heart

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This is an issue of the comic book “RythmMastr: Every Beat of My Heart" formed out of two newsprint sheets folded together to create an eight-page unbound booklet. The top sheet (a) cover page has a single scene in the top two-thirds of the image, and an image gallery of eight characters in the bottom third. The top image depicts an urban scene of an apartment building in the process of being knocked down by a wrecking ball. There is vertical and horizontal text within and next to the wrecking ball that reads “RYTHM / MASTR.” The upper stories are already exposed, showing one room with the silhouette of a woman and child in it. Flying up to intercept the swing wrecking ball is a figure in a red robe and headdress, holding a golden machete-type objects in his hand.

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