Bus Busters: Expanded Edition

What do you get when someone with fifteen years experience driving big Greyhound buses turns into a nationally syndicated cartoonist? You get Bus Busters, filled with cartoons by bus-driver Wally Falk showing the beleaguered drivers, the amusing and often clueless passengers, and the joy and surprises to be found traveling America’s highways. Bus Busters first and last saw print in 1954, but now it’s back, with not only all of the cartoons from the original edition, but also dozens more, selected from the run of Falk’s syndicated newspaper panel “Kickin’ Around”.

About the author: Minneapolis’s Wally Falk spent fifteen years as Greyhound bus driver followed by sixteen years behind the drawing desk, creating two gag panel series for America’s comic pages: first, “Kickin’ Around” (1945-1956) and then “The Family Car” (1956-1961). He was also the original illustrator for the daily adage feature “The Country Parson”.

$12 US

  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 127 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1949996778
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1949996777

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The Family Car Road Trip

The 1950s and ‘60s were the classic era of the American road trip. With cars having become ubiquetous and airfare still unaffordable, we took our vacations in our sedans and station wagons. We traveled endless stretches of asphalt during the day by following the lines on awkwardly-folded maps or AAA Triptiks. We squeezed intogether each night at motels, motor lodges, and campsites at night. The travel time was filled with license plate games and back seat battles, with stops for gas, service station bathroom breaks, natural wonders, bizarre roadside attractions, and if you were lucky, a pecan log.

Wally Falk was there to chronicle it all. A former bus driver, he knew the nation’s roadways like few others. His daily syndicated comic panel The Family Car chronicled our love for and struggles with our vehicles and our destinations. Here is the first collection ever from that series, focusing on those family trips and the adventures of the open road.

$9.99 US

  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 107 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1949996751
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1949996753

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