Cornbread the Legend (2nd edition)

Cornbread by Cornbread the Legend is a publication released alongside the typeface Cornbread, both celebrating the legacy of Darryl “Cornbread” McCray, one of the first modern graffiti writers and a pioneer of the Hip Hop movement. The book traces McCray’s legendary story from his beginnings in North Philadelphia to his rise as a cultural icon in the late 1960s. When the Philadelphia Tribune mistakenly announced his death in 1971, Cornbread made headlines by tagging an elephant at the Philadelphia Zoo and even a TWA jet, turning an anonymous wall writer into a public figure. The book unfolds in four sections: 36 pages of archival newspaper clippings, 48 pages of Cornbread’s drawings, 48 pages of historic photographs, and a revealing interview with Cornbread by Maxitype.