Woody Guthrie’s “Tom Joad” #1

I’ve been playing this story-song all spring, & feeling like it’d make a great graphic novel or comic strip series. This mini-comic adapts the first six verses of Woody Guthrie’s lyric adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Some of Guthrie’s lyrics show up in the text, & some show up in the images.

Issue #2 will present the family’s journey to California (“the Promised Land”) & what they find there…
Whenever I get around to drawing it!

• Project notes & printables @ Patreon →
• How to set up a 1-Sheet Mini-Comic >>

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SOURCES & CREDITS: 

• WORDS & MUSIC = © 1960 (renewed) &1963 (renewed) by Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. & TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI) / https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Tom_Joad.htm 
  / MUSIC SYNCHRONIZATION LICENSE #550-920-5723 – INTERNET STREAMING (7 May 2020)  
• AUDIO = Woody Guthrie / Rounder Records   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZ04AlFMk0