American Motels

A single-issue comic from 1978, American Motels is a meticulously observed, deadpan travelogue by the singular cartoonist Rick Geary. Published as a standalone work, it offers a quiet, architectural tour of the roadside motels that dotted the American landscape, capturing their quirky signage and fading neon charm before they became relics. Geary’s precise, crosshatched linework and wry, understated captions make this a distinctive artifact of late-1970s independent comics, a small but essential document of a vanishing vernacular Americana.