Paul Kirchner’s surreal cult classic strip The Bus has another sequel. The Bus 3 is new from Tanibis Editions, which published The Bus 2 a decade ago along with a collection of the original Bus strips.
From my review of The Bus 2:
Paul Kirchner’s cult classic comic strip The Bus originally ran in Heavy Metal from 1979-1985. The (anti-)story of “a hapless commuter and a demonic bus” (as Kichner put it himself in a recent memoir at The Boston Globe), The Bus, at its finest moments, transcends our expectations for what a comic strip can and should do. Sure, Kirchner delivers the set-ups, gags, japes, and jests we expect from a cartoon—but more often than not The Bus surpasses the confines of its form and medium. Its protagonist The Commuter is an allegorical everyman, a passenger tripping through an absurd world. Kirchner’s strip often shows us ways to see that absurd world—which is of course our own absurd world—with fresh eyes.
Here is the first strip in The Bus 3:
More thoughts to come.
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