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A review by saidtheraina
Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America by Pete Friedrich
3.0
A collection of short sequential art pieces arranged by region of the United States. It seems to have been a project that came out of the 911 national trauma. According to the Introduction, each of the artists were asked "to capture the moment in which they realized they were Americans."
As such, it is NOT (as the cover might imply) a collection of actual road trip stories, but instead a collage of tales from places across America. Virtually all of the pieces are original, and by artists I already know and love (Hernandez! Tyler! Kuper! Kelso! Sala! Kindt!.....). A few of them do include travel in some way. Most of them tell stories rooted in their various childhoods, which generally took place somewhere between the 1950s and the 1980s.
A nice anthology from a particular place and time.
As such, it is NOT (as the cover might imply) a collection of actual road trip stories, but instead a collage of tales from places across America. Virtually all of the pieces are original, and by artists I already know and love (Hernandez! Tyler! Kuper! Kelso! Sala! Kindt!.....). A few of them do include travel in some way. Most of them tell stories rooted in their various childhoods, which generally took place somewhere between the 1950s and the 1980s.
A nice anthology from a particular place and time.