Grafscals — An Original Animated Series

An original animated series about a crew of six kids and one dog coming up in New York City during the golden era of hip-hop — back when the trains still ran covered in color. Every member is an artist first: graffiti writers, a DJ, an MC, a producer, a drummer, a guitarist. And every one of them carries something a little harder to explain, tied to the craft they love.

Seven members: Fast (the leader — superhuman speed), Ambidextrous (DJ — both hands at full speed, independently), Acro (muralist — climbs any surface, no rope), Floe (MC — the trance voice), Boost (guitarist and supply-runner — pure stealth), Yung Fry (the youngest — no powers, one homemade Power Glove), and Kilo (the protector — do not make him flip the switch).

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Almost. Six of them carry an ability nobody can fully explain — not magic, not tech, just something that showed up through years of doing their craft. The exception is Yung Fry: no powers at all. So he built his own — a modified Nintendo Power Glove, hand-soldered from salvaged parts, that can talk to traffic signals, train switches, arcade machines... anything with a circuit. In this crew, that counts.

The crew's headquarters — a subway rail yard where rows of steel train cars sit waiting to become canvases. Brick control tower in the middle of the tracks, a graffiti-bombed elevated trestle overhead, and a dark tunnel portal where the tracks dive underground. If the crew isn't on a rooftop or in Manny's shop, they're here.

When the switch flips — yes. No growl, no warning, no buildup. One moment he's a sweet, goofy pit bull Fry rescued from the rail yard; the next he's over a thousand kilograms of protector, ground cracking under his paws. It only happens when Fry or the crew is in real danger. The rest of the time, the biggest threat he poses is to your sandwich.

New York City, mid-80s to mid-90s — the golden era. The crew is spread across the whole map: Bed-Stuy, the Cooper Park Houses in Williamsburg, Harlem, the Lower East Side. Boomboxes, fat laces, corner bodegas, whole-car burners. The city isn't just the backdrop — it's basically the eighth member of the crew.

Episodes premiere as shorts on our YouTube channel and show up in the Episodes section here automatically. If you want to hear about drops first, the newsletter is the move.

Officially? No. Fry was "in the back the whole time." Unofficially... Manny's been looking real hard at that CCTV monitor lately, and he doesn't miss much. Watch the pilot and decide for yourself how long this secret has left.

Everything you'd need — synopsis, fast facts, character bios, logo and key art — is in the press kit. For interviews, festivals, partnerships or anything else, email grafscals@gmail.com. We answer everything.

Watch the episodes, follow us on YouTube and Instagram, join the newsletter, and put a friend on. Crews don't grow by accident — somebody always passes the can.

Burner, throw-up, whole car, cypher, fat caps — the crew talks the way writers actually talked in the era. We put together Block Talk, a plain-English glossary of every term you'll hear in the series.