Have you found many people to be familiar with him? The book is really a study of land rights, notions of trespassing and folk song." It was a time that mirrors ours, not only in terms of economic crash and wealth inequality, but also in terms of my main focus in the book, of capitalism's relationship with ecology. "What I wanted to do was use Woody's eyes and ethics to take a look at a particular time in American history, the Dust Bowl. "From the start I was clear that I didn't want to try and define Woody on paper - by their nature, graphic novels turn small amounts of words into large tomes of images, so any attempt to tell his life story would have either resulted in a gargantuan book, or a story with so many holes and elisions that it would have been pointless, or worse, unfair. While Guthrie’s eccentricities no doubt caused more family difficulty than is shown here, this captivating marriage of art and words offers a revealing, evocative look at this complex, talented American icon.Why did you decide to tell the story of Woody Guthrie? Gorgeously rendered in a sepia-toned palette with broad black outlines, the expressive, woodcut-like illustrations and varied lettering styles quietly evoke the time period, while the stylized figures capture the haunted looks of people with nothing left to lose. This sympathetic portrait offers an engaging and accessible look at Guthrie’s personal life, the political climate of the 1930’s, and the physical landscapes Guthrie loved so much. Increasingly disillusioned with American politics and the government’s abandonment of its poorest citizens, Guthrie was compelled to speak out, tirelessly crisscrossing the nation to entertain and advocate for the nation’s poorest people with his songs, eventually earning himself a permanent place as one of America’s great folk heroes.
This fictionalized biography follows Guthrie through his early, formative years as he and his family struggled to survive the destitute poverty of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. “This land was made for you and me.” Every grade-schooler in America learns the refrain from the popular folk song, “This Land is Your Land,” but not much about Woody Guthrie, the singer, songwriter, and activist who wrote it.
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