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Like a warm, flat beer on a hot summer day

The assignment was a slap in the face. A car slams into an out-of-work artist at 2am and veteran NYPD Detective Abe Marion gets stuck with the case. But the more Marion poked around the less he understood, and what started as a simple hit-and-run quickly produced a dead body, a bunch of angry thugs, and some uneasy higher-ups within the New York City Police Department.

Deer in the Headlights is a story about booze, guns, drugs, cops, hookers, mobsters, thieves, and an unemployed cartoonist who gets tangled up with all of them. It’s Episode One of the Smalltime Comics series, halfway between a graphic novel and a noir crime thriller, with raw, primal language and art scrawled out onto a stack of cocktail napkins.

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“Love, love, love this work.” “WOW. What a ride!”

“The artwork is crazy.” “I got so lost in this book.”

“Each character really jumped off the page.”

“The voices are spot-on, the humor lands every time.”

“Love, love, love this work.”

“WOW. What a ride!”

“The artwork is crazy.”

“I got so lost in this book.”

“Each character really jumped off the page.”

“The voices are spot-on, the humor lands every time.”

Drawing - Guy

YOU DREW IT ON A WHAT?

The art for this book was done on cocktail napkins, as if one of the characters got shiftfaced in a dive bar and put it all down on paper. I used a BIC pen and Chartpak AD markers to get as close as possible to the feeling of watercolors.

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Drawing - Girl
Drawing - Guy

I'M NOT LIKE OTHER GUYS

Even the voices in my head are abnormal. They're a bunch of violent, belligerent idiots who drink too much, make terrible decisions, and will not shut up until I get them down on paper.

So, yeah, I've got issues. Instead of putting my feet up on some beach, I spent the first six years of my retirement doing comic book drawings on cocktail napkins and perfecting the art of talking like a guy with a crowbar in his jacket.

But the truth is, there's nothing I'd rather do. Smalltime Comics isn't just a second career for me, it's a calling: "Hey! Shithead! Get over here, I got something for you."

Welcome to my world.

Mitchell Reichgut started as an art director at Grey Advertising in New York City. He spent his early career making TV commercials and digital ads for brands like Nike, Walmart, McDonald's, Budweiser, Chrysler, and Coca-Cola. He wrote two national comic book series, Manik and Sparrow, for Millennium Publications, and wrote and produced a streaming series for Comcast called Stream, starring Whoopi Goldberg. Mitchell founded an ad tech firm called Jun Group, which was acquired by a major media company. Smalltime Comics is his second career and his dream job.

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There's plenty of greed, corruption, and theft in my writing so I don't need any more of it from a publishing platform.

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