The Art of Tim Lane’s Abandoned Cars on Display at SHQ Until March 1st

Secret Headquarters in Los Angeles is currently holding an exhibition of the artwork of Tim Lane‘s graphic novel Abandoned Cars, which will last through March 1st. Below you will find SHQ’s official announcement, as well as details on the show:

Secret Headquarters is proud to showcase original art from Tim Lane’s Fantagraphics book ABANDONED CARS.

This collection of original comic pages depict my first experience freight train hopping, and are from the story SPIRIT in ABANDONED CARS. They are my favorite pages in the book, mainly because they represent a past experience that changed my life. Since I drew them a decade after the initial experience, they required a great deal of research to depict accurately, since the details of the locations were no longer fresh in my mind. To make sure that those details were accurate, I traveled back to all the relevant locations in an attempt to insure the authenticity of the story. To my great relief, things hadn’t changed much since 1995, and it turned out that geography and architecture proved that my memory was in pretty good working order - my recollections hadn’t become embellished too much over time.

This is the only story in ABANDONED CARS that is completely autobiographical, a form with which I don’t feel very comfortable, and for that reason SPIRIT is atypical. But I think it serves an important purpose in the greater context of ABANDONED CARS because it places me among the cast of characters portrayed in the other short story selections. I hope you enjoy the original drawings from that story.

This picture (above) was taken in 1995, around the same time SPIRIT took place. Here I was in the Mission in San Francisc o on Florida Street. At the time, I had been casing the West Oakland Yards (jumped only once but the train aborted to a sidetrack, where I spent a very cold night sleeping on the floor of a metal boxcar). Around this time I gave up freight hopping after reading and article in the San Francisco Chronicle a bout Robert Silveria, Jr, the hobo serial killer, who had recently been caught in the Bay area. He’d killed something like fourteen people along the rails, and murdered their dogs, if they had them, as well. One bad dude, no question.

-Tim Lane

The Art of Tim Lane’s Book
ABANDONED CARS
now on display at
Secret Headquarters
until March 1st, 2011

Secret Headquarters
3817 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
323.666.2228
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