The Bus continues to be a really entertaining look at the commute. It’s very basic and completely silent, but the punchlines always make sense and completely subvert expectations.

Finding a comic that very well could have been a syndicated Sunday cartoon in a counter-cultural anthology magazine aimed at people who were as far from that experience as it was possible to be at the time is very strange. Even weirder is the fact that I can find the collected edition of these cartoons in Amazon France for a reasonable price, but if I want to buy in English, I have to fork over twice that price for a low end copy.

(Heavy Metal issue #51, June 1981 – Pages 4&96 The Bus by Kirchner)