Ed Piskor’s X-Men: Grand Design Is a Comics Cliffs Notes for X-Men

Ed Piskor, 8,000 pages of X-Men comics, and Professor X’s tighty whities.by Suzette SmithIf Ed Piskor’s name wasn’t recognizable before, it will be now. After gaining recognition for the illustration work he did on American Splendor with writer Harvey Pekar, and Piskor’s own four-volume comic book history of Hip Hop Family Tree, the comics artist convinced Marvel to let him apply the same packed, gossipy, modern-eye view that we saw in Hip Hop Family Tree to the X-Men&rsq