Whilest chatting with my pal in comics, Rich Koslowski, last weekend, he sent me a couple of “first look” images from a new graphic novel he’s illustrating, BB Wolf & The 3 L.P.s.
Drawn in the ink wash style of his award-winning Three Fingers, BB Wolf is a spec project, currently being shopped around to various indy publishers by its writer, Johnnie Arnold. The premise from Koslowski’s keyboard: “BB Wolf is a new twist on the old story of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs.
“It’s set in the 1920s and BB Wolf is a poor farmer/blues guitartist and singer. His family is being oppressed by, you guessed it, these three brothers who are some pretty mean little piggies. The story parallels a lot of our country’s unfortunate history of the mistreatment of Black America in the South of that time. It’s a commentary on racial prejudices and ruthless greed… all done with a wicked twist that I really dig!”
No prospective publishing date other than you can expect to see it sometime next year, and it looks and sounds very interesting too…
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Dear lord that looks incredible. If and when this thing is published, I am all OVER it. Folks who dig this sort of thing will also want to check out Vollmar and Callejo’s Bluesman.