Abandoned cars - Tim Lane

Abandoned Cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic shortstories, noirish narratives that are united by their exploration of the greatAmerican mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters thatpopulate its pages. The writing is straightforward, the stories mainstream buttold in a pulpy idiom with an existential edge, often in the first person,reminiscent of films like Out of the Past. Visually, Lane's drawing is ina realistic mode, which heightens the tension in stories that veer betweennaturalism on the one hand and the comical, nightmarish, and hallucinatory onthe other. It's an America depicted as a subdued and haunted Coney Island, madeup of lost characters boozing, brawling, haplessly shooting themselves in theface, and hopping freight trains in search of Elvis.