Abandoned Cars

Abandoned Cars by Lane, Tim. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781560979180.

America depicted as a subdued and haunted Coney Island, made up of lost characters―boozing, brawling, haplessly shooting themselves in the face, and hopping freight trains in search of Elvis. An impressive debut of a major new talent Graphic shorts in a Jim Thompson vein. Abandoned Cars is Tim Lanes first 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 its pages. Lanes characters exist on the margins of society--alienated, floating in the void between hope and despair, confused but introspective. Some of them are experiencing the aftermath of an existential car crash--those surreal moments after a car accident, when time slows down and youre trying to determine what just happened and how badly youre hurt. Others have gone off the deep end, or were never anywhere but the deep end. Some are ridiculous, others dignified in their efforts to struggle to make sense of, and cope with, the absurdities, outrages, ghosts, and poisons in their lives.