Next Stop: Troubletown

Culled from the pages of big city weeklies, Next Stop: Troubletown reveals all the facts about slackers and suits; fast-food waitrons and their corporate overlords; down and out losers, sleazy plutocrats, and moussed-up TV commentators - in a truly shocking portrait of power, passion, deception and delirium!

"Sizzling cartoon tales of desperate men and women lost on a road of calamity and chaos." People who are into alternative comics or cartoons know that the really cool comic strips aren't in the Sunday papers; they're in the free alternative weekly papers. Troubletown is one such example: Lloyd Dangle's work on the strip is top notch. The art is simple and direct. The stories cut a nice slice through the melodrama of city life from the suits to the slackers. The collection Next Stop: Troubletown has a hip retro look to it, though it never seems dated. And speaking of hip, the introduction is by Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith.