| Edition |
First Fantagraphics book edition |
| Descript |
132 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Pretty Polly and the ship's carpenter --
Long black veil --
Taneytown --
Caleb Meyer --
Where the wild roses grow --
Murder ballads /
Jan Donkers
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"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 |
| Subject |
Murder -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Death in music -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Death in music.
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Murder.
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Comics (Graphic works)
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Graphic books
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Döden
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Tecknader serier
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| Classmark |
741.5/9492
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| Alt Auth |
Jonker, Fritz, letterer
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9781683960119 |
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1683960114 |
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