On the Bus

(Slave Labor, 1994)
™ and ©1994 F. Andrew Taylor

If you have a car, you would drive that instead. If you can afford it, you would fly. But if you have little money and need to get from one end of the U.S. to the other, chances are good that you’ll end up traveling the hard way—in the back of a Greyhound bus as it rumbles down the open road.

Life threw F. Andrew Taylor a curve ball one year and he wound up taking three such trips. In this one-shot from Slave Labor Graphics, Taylor relates the whole sordid tale: the bus terminal Gestapo, the drivers who dozed off in the middle of the highway, and the horror of chatty seatmates. Perhaps because bus travel is a strange enough experience in itself, Taylor feels no need to use exaggerated comix angst to tell his story. As a result, On the Bus is an engaging and accessible work. It neatly captures the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of seeing America the slow way.

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August, 1994
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F. Andrew Taylor