Abandoned Cars
Graphic Novel Summary: Now in paperback, this debut collection of short stories are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama. Tim Lane's characters exist on the margins of society-alienated, floating in the void between hope and despair. Visually reminiscent of Al Feldstein and Charles Burns, Lane's idiosyncratic and tense realism weaves between comic absurdity, nightmarish naturalism, chemical hallucination, and ecstatic terror. Lane's America is a haunted Coney Island, made up of lost characters haplessly shooting themselves in the face, and hopping freight trains in search of Elvis.
Codes: JUN083955 JAN100954 1560979180 1560979180
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| Artist: | Tim Lane |
| Author: | Tim Lane |
| Cover Artist: | Tim Lane |
| Estimated Ship Date: | June 12, 2012 | In Stock? | Can be backordered, expected to ship in 7-20 days |
| ISBN: | 1560979180 |
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Customer Reviews
This is a series of vignettes involving angst prone blue collar protagonists drawing heavily from American popular culture in the first half of the last century.
This graphic novel focuses heavily on inner dialogue, and it can sound a bit like a masters thesis in Americana meets a noir mystery, but never is cloy.
The real stand out is the art with a style that wavers between Daniel Clowes and Charles Burns with a stop at Wally Wood. It is very rare to find some one who can so effectively use large black spaces and seemlessly transfer to an articulate and lyrical line that serves the mood of his topic so expertly
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