HOTWIRE COMICS GN (2025)

"by Various Hotwire Comix is a full-throttle, kick-ass, jolt to the nervous system return to the glory days of underground/alternative comics before we all started to drown in 200-page graphic novels. Kicked off and edited by cartoonist Glenn Head (of the Snake Eyes anthologies)!"

"by Various; edited by Glenn Head The cartoon anthology that puts the kicks back in comics strikes again! Climb on board the Hotwire Express for another electrifying joyride - from the sublime to the ridiculous - and all parts in between. Volume 2 includes some of the strongest narrative comics around. Tim Lane's autobiographical strip, 'Spirit,' portrays the grittiness, desperation, and terror he experienced as a bum, riding the rails. 'Niacin,' by Mary Fleener, is the hilariously sordid story of a hallucinatory date with a drug dealer. Mack White deconstructs the western myth of the OK Corral gunfight in 'Showdown at Hustler's Ridge.' Glenn Head's 'Oozing Dread!' tells the Twilight Zone-ish tale of Wilhelm Reich, madcap genius-inventor of the orgone box. 'Communicable Disease' by Carol Swain shows the descent of a young Scottish lass into impoverished hell. Dutch artist Tobias Tak delivers a fantastical retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk with his comic, 'The Ten Inch Giant.' All this and more, wrapped in a absolute killer cover by Tim Lane!"

"TIRED OF TAME, BORING COMICS? SEE: hoTWIRE! The Harvey and Eisner nominated anthology of action, thrills, chills and trangression is back with a third volume! Anything goes in hotwire, eschewing literary high-mindedness for a pure, gut-wrenching viscerality that you can tune in and rest your brain on after a long day. hotwire the third leaps off the page from the get-go with David Sandlin's 'Infernal Combustion,' about boozing it up in a broke-down caddy, and Tim Lane's bit of freight-hopping grit, 'Spike.' Underground comics legend Mary Fleener returns with 'The Judge,' a true tale about her own life fending off thugs with a .38! Meanwhile, hotwire Captain Glenn Head spins the biog raphy of German surrealist Hans Bellmer as a down and out Vaudevillian in decadent Weimar Berlin. Other creepy delights: Rick Altergott delivers a fable of a child-molesting clown pleasuring himself in the suburbs, while Matti Hagelberg's 'Passion of Atte' is a modern-day dante's Inferno of comics. There's also more knockout work and crazy visuals by Mark Dean Veca, Johnny (Angry Youth Comix) Ryan, Mats?!, Max Andersson, Sam Henderson, Steve Cerio, Stephane Blanquet, Doug Allen, Carol Swain, Craig Yoe, J. Bradley Johnson, Michael (Tales designed to Thrizzle) Kupperman, Danny Hellman, Mack White, Lorna Miller, David Paleo, Christian Northeast, Karl Wills and Jay Pulga. Looking for laffs? A psychic jolt? A partner for your next trip? Look no further than hotwire! "