This is a great little story. It starts with a bus full of tourists who are taking pictures of the stretch of abandoned road where James Dean died. Among the tourists is a young girl, whose grandfather claims to know what actually happened. Over the course of the next several pages, that grandfather presents a series of one-page takes on what really happened, all of them in conflict with each other.

What’s really interesting – and a thing that comics does very well – is that the conversation between grandfather and grand-daughter takes place in the desert, despite the fact that the grandfather is in his hospital bed. The reader is left to understand that the grandfather’s presence in his bed is meant to be read as symbolic, not realistic.

(Heavy Metal issue #175, May 1998 – Page 27 James Dean, Cora, And I by Fages and Chauvel)