#sarah litt

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I still dislike Sarah Litt!

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BLACK: Exploring A World Where Only Black People Have Superpowers

We sat down with the creative team behind BLACK to talk process, design, and how the world reflects back through their book.

The state of the world is such that the pace of history is on internet time, where news and current events, like memes, go from breaking to overanalyzed to precambrian in the space of three months. That’s why it is reasonable to ask the creative team behind Black Mask’s hit comic BLACK if the year that has passed since they launched their Kickstarter has changed their perspective on their work at all. No, said co-creator Kwanza Osajyefo, but “I feel like I’m going to have some new inspiration the next four years to work off of.”

Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3, Khary Randolph, Jamal Igle, and Sarah Litt actually started advertising their series at New York Comic Con 2015 with stealth ads greeting con-goers around the city. So they built up a considerable buzz for the launch of their Kickstarter the following February, where they announced that they were putting together a book that asked “what if only black people had super powers?” As proof that 2016 wasn’t entirely a swamp of despair, their proposal blew past and eventually tripled their original goal, enabling the team to add pages of just fight scenes (Editor’s note: yay!) and gaining the notice of Black Mask Studios, a punk rock comic company built with the express goal of screwing with the traditional model of comics production...