Creannotators #5: “Bitter Root” Deep Dive With Artist Sanford Greene
06/23/20 • 32 min
This week on Creannotators, I talked with artist Sanford Greene about the Eisner nominated Bitter Root!
On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio/visual annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!
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Bitter Root is one of my favorite ongoing comics of the last couple years, and a current Eisner nominated work for best continuing series of 2020. Greene, Walker, Brown and team are telling the story of a black family of monster hunters in 1920’s Harlem, quite literally fighting racism and the depths of man’s hate, while trying to carve out hope for a future.
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I talked with Greene about how work on Marvel’s Power Man & Iron Fist with David F. Walker led to Bitter Root, and a wide variety of topics including the complicated process of how the artist designs hate and fear manifesting in literal monsters, firstly seen via out-and-out racism, and later in the text through a more complicated legacy of generational trauma.
Bitter Root Is:
Writers: David F Walker, Chuck Brown
Artist: Sanford Greene
Colors: Sanford Greene & Rico Renzi, Sofie Dodgson
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Editor: Heather Antos
Backmatter: John Jennings
Publisher: Image Comics
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This week on Creannotators, I talked with artist Sanford Greene about the Eisner nominated Bitter Root!
On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio/visual annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!
Related Guides:
Bitter Root is one of my favorite ongoing comics of the last couple years, and a current Eisner nominated work for best continuing series of 2020. Greene, Walker, Brown and team are telling the story of a black family of monster hunters in 1920’s Harlem, quite literally fighting racism and the depths of man’s hate, while trying to carve out hope for a future.
Support For Comic Book Herald:
Comic Book Herald is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a qualifying affiliate commission.
Comic Book Herald’s reading orders and guides are also made possible by My Marvelous Year club support on Patreon, and generous reader donations.
Any size contribution will help keep CBH alive and full of new comics guides and content. Support CBH’s My Marvelous Year on Patreon for exclusive rewards, or Donate here! Thank you for reading!
I talked with Greene about how work on Marvel’s Power Man & Iron Fist with David F. Walker led to Bitter Root, and a wide variety of topics including the complicated process of how the artist designs hate and fear manifesting in literal monsters, firstly seen via out-and-out racism, and later in the text through a more complicated legacy of generational trauma.
Bitter Root Is:
Writers: David F Walker, Chuck Brown
Artist: Sanford Greene
Colors: Sanford Greene & Rico Renzi, Sofie Dodgson
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Editor: Heather Antos
Backmatter: John Jennings
Publisher: Image Comics
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Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com.
To learn how you can support Best Comics Ever and receive more exclusive content from Comic Book Herald, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookherald
For the Comic Book Herald reading club through every year of Marvel Comics, check out mymarvelousyear.com
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Creannotators #4: “Little Bird” Deep Dive With Writer Darcy Van Poelgeest
This week on Creannotators, I talked with writer Darcy Van Poelgeest about Little Bird and the upcoming sequel Precious Metal.
On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio/visual annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!
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Little Bird: The Fight For Elder’s Hope, one of my favorite comics of the last few years, explores a dystopic but parallel earth where the United Nations of America rules via theocracy, in a world rampant with “dark science” and genetic modifications including a resurrection gene. It’s a gory, visceral, poetic exploration of resistance against theocratic fascist regimes.
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Little Bird Is:
Writer: Darcy Van Poelgeest
Artist: Ian Bertram
Colors: Matt Hollingsworth
Letters: Aditya Bidikar
Design: Ben Didier
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Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com.
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Creannotators #6: “Kill A Man” Deep Dive With Writer Steve Orlando
This week on Creannotators, I talked with writer Steve Orlando about his upcoming MMA graphic novel Kill A Man, as well as his comics career and what comes next for Wonder Woman and creator-owned work.
On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio/visual annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!
Kill a Man, a new 2020 graphic novel out from Aftershock comics, is the story of an MMA fighter on the road to a championship belt when he’s outed by a competitor during a press conference – ultimately, this leads the fighter to turn to the former fighter who killed his father in the ring, a queer black man himself, for help on his road to return and conquer the sport.
As Steve said in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter:
“We want to give the Rocky-type narrative to the LGBTQ+ community and say, loudly and unflinching, that we to deserve a hero that overcomes, goes the distance, and finds victory on their own terms.”
The graphic novel will be released October 2020, and as Orlando mentions in the interview, alongside National Coming Out Day, which is October 11th.
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The Kill A Man Team Is:
Writer: Steve Orlando
Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Artist: Alec Morgan
Letters: Jim Campbell
Publisher: Aftershock
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Music for Best Comics Ever by Anthony Weis. Check out more music at anthonyweis.com.
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