MIDDLE-CLASS FANTASIES
middle-class fantasies
Last Gasp 1973-1976
Jerry Lane produced the first issue of this brief series as part of his Masters thesis in art at California State University at Fresno. It’s his first effort in comics and I think he did a hell of a job. Middle Class Fantasies #1 provides the first chapter of “The Frogman,” which is about a mysterious man in a diving suit who floats into a young woman’s life on a recurring basis. The first issue also has a terrific homage to one of my favorite comedy teams (read “old people’s favorite dead people”), the Marx Brothers. In Middle Class Fantasies #2, Lane gives us the last three chapters in the Frogman story and several other tales, including the intriguing “Cantua Creek.”