In the pines
Subtitle: 5 murder ballads
By: written and drawn by Erik Kriek ; lettering by Fritz Jonker
Contributors: Jonker, Fritz, letterer
Edition: First Fantagraphics book edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781683960119
Subjects: Murder; Death in music; Comic books, strips
Description: "The murder ballad holds a rock-solid position in US roots music and the Great American Songbook for decades. Telling the stories of sometimes true and often not-so-true-crimes and other horrific events, they are raw stories full of unrequited love, betrayal, life, and death. The song form stems from the Anglo-Saxon ballad tradition, where stories were orally passed on to a mostly illiterate population. Dutch cartoonist Erik Kriek was inspired by five old and new murder ballads -- including songs by modern masters such as Nick Cave, Steve Earle, and Gillian Welch -- and used them as a launching point for five special and ruthless graphic narratives that dig deep into the darkness of Americana, in which guns and religion maintain an uneasy balance" -- provided by publisher.
Notes: Translated from the Dutch.
Table of contents: title: Pretty Polly and the ship's carpenter --; title: Long black veil --; title: Taneytown --; title: Caleb Meyer --; title: Where the wild roses grow --; title: Murder ballads -- Jan Donkers.