Sneak Preview: Wreck of the Old 97

Later this year, I have two short comics appearing in an anthology called Work. Work is a collection of adaptations of old folk songs - and some new songs, too - about work and jobs and the union and all kinds of other good stuff. If you’ve checked out Split Lip, you know that I love old-time music and have adapted songs and folk tales into at least four Split Lip stories.

For Work, I’ve written a story inspired by the Billy Bragg song “To Have and To Have Not” and an adaptation of the train-disaster song “Wreck of the Old 97.”

(Art after the jump.)

“Old 97″ is drawn by Neal von Flue, a fellow old-time music enthusiast (even more than me - dude plays the banjo! I’m jealous) who worked with me on the Split Lip adaptation of “The Wind and the Rain.” Below are two pages from the story. Beautiful stuff, right? I love working with Neal.