Brandon Breaux is everywhere.
The Chicago native invaded millions of iPods in recent years, and this past week alone has seen him wheat-pasted onto building walls across the country. Chance The Rapper’s go-to designer quietly created some of the best cover art in recent memory, and with the newly unveiled artwork for Coloring Book, he’s done it again. The man behind the imagery for 2012’s 10 Day and 2013’s Acid Rap has become a storyteller in his own right.
Together, the three pieces chronicle Chance The Rapper’s rise, functioning like subsequent panels in a comic strip. For the first time, hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of people are seeing his work on billboards and in bus stops thanks to a nationwide guerrilla campaign that puts his work in the spotlight. No copy, no slogans, no logos.
Breaux began to dabble in the arts at an early age. Fascinated by multiple mediums of expression, he immersed himself in Chicago’s hip-hop culture. Time not spent doodling, drawing, and illustrating was spent breakdancing.
We talked to the Windy City artist about working with Chance over the years, the importance of comic books, Acid Rap, and the art that’s now popping up in public places across the country.
