A collection of flash fiction and illustrations celebrating the hardscrabble underbelly of Americana.

In this book, Lane remasters milieus, attitudes, and cultural touchstones of the 20th century: wry slice-of-life vignettes are depicted in moodily crosshatched, noir-inflected drawings.

Jazz clubs and pool halls, ballparks and graveyards, casinos and coffeehouses, back alleys and bus stops are populated by roughed-up boxers, bleary gamblers, rowdy winos, philosophical rail-riders, acrobatic fire-swallowers, and femme fatales - woven together into a uniquely designed collection of images and prose.

Author/Artist: Tim Lane
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Pages: 240pp
Size: 9 x 11 x 1
Notes: hardcover
Release Date: August 4, 2020
ISBN: 978-1683961925