Abandoned Cars

Abandoned Cars

Graphic ed

Paperback (06 May 2010)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A collection of graphic short stories, noir-ish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate their pages. Lane's characters exist on the margins of society: alienated, floating in the void between hope and despair, confused but introspective. The writing is straightforward, the stories told in a pulpy idiom with an existential edge, often in the first person, reminiscent of David Goodis' or Jim Thompson's prose or films like Pick-Up on South Street.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781606993415
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: Graphic ed
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 168
Weight: 546g
Height: 241mm
Width: 177mm
Spine width: 18mm