This kind of schizophrenic publishing might be career suicide for some writers and, my guess is, it was a hard climb at some points, but Joe’s refusal to stay in one genre worked in his favor. There were no real specialty shops in my area. Joe published in the small presses back then, as he does today, but it was difficult to find that stuff for guys like me. Joe wrote horror fiction, and might be there near all the Stephen King books. That’s where you probably would have found The Magic Wagon. Or maybe he would end up in the Western area. That’s where you were likely to find his first novel, Act of Love. Maybe one would end up in the Mystery/Suspense section. His books could be found in any given spot in a store. Plus, Lansdale was a tough nut to pigeonhole. You looked in bookstores, searched the used shops, and maybe if you were lucky you could find a catalogue of stuff you wanted to order.

It wasn’t so easy to find books in those days. The reviewed works in question were Act of Love, The Nightrunners, and Dead in the West. So when I read a triple review by the great Stanley Wiater in Fangoria magazine about a writer named Joe R. It was a heyday, and it seemed like every new author on the scene I heard about was well worth my time and money. And there was a new, streetwise style of horror breaking barriers, from writers like John Skipp, Craig Spector, David J. Writers were migrating from the SF field. Newer writers like Dennis Etchison, Richard Christian Matheson, Ramsey Campbell, and Michael McDowell were getting into high gear. Big names, legends, were still publishing: Robert Bloch, Ray Russell, Manly Wade Wellman, Hugh B. I had been a serious horror reader for years and things were really starting to get interesting. Filled with Lansdale's razor sharp whit and black humor, The Drive-In is a darkly humourous masterpiece! For fans of Garth Ennis, Joe Lansdale will be just what you are looking for and this series is further enriched by the stunningly detailed art of Andres Guinaldo and cover by superstar artist Jacen Burrows.The year was 1988.

As a mysterious force traps all the patrons inside the Drive-In, the worst in humanity comes out. When a group of friends decide to spend a day at the world's largest Drive-In theater horror fest, they expected to see tons of bloody murders, rampaging madmen, and mayhem- but only on the screen. Joe Lansdale's epic of insanity finally comes to comics, 10 years in the making! The original novel has a huge cult following as it personifies the best in Lansdale's writing, and this comic adaptation is true to the original- it's undiluted, unaltered Lansdale at it's finest adapted by top scribe Chris Golden. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Collected here is the complete four issue series with bonus material including a new interview with Lansdale himself about the writing of The Drive-In.

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