Tim Lane's The Lonesome Go

In The Lonesome Go, comics artist and graphic illustrator Tim Lane profiles familiar, typically unshaven folk: bar flies, train-hopping drifters, biker types.

Lane’s subjects aren’t often shackled to homes or jobs, and in turn, the artist doesn’t weigh them down with backstories or peripheral details.

Travel and highways are frequent motifs in the book — everybody’s moving. There are buses, boats, rail lines, gas stations, pickup trucks, and long road trips. Lane’s weathered characters lumber in and out of motels and half-empty saloons on these big, black-and-white pages; they slip suddenly into surreal predicaments, where the pen strokes prove elastic and unpredictable.

My new piece on Tim Lane’s The Lonesome Go is live at Hyperallergic.