Sin City High

This Friday, May 7, from 6 pm to 9 pm, Phil Cummings' show featuring illustrations from his new novel, "Sin City High" will open at Gallery 839.

Fighting to survive and graduate high school in 1960’s Las Vegas under the shadow of Vietnam, anti-hero Paul must learn to cope with brutal cops, conniving snitches, lubricious tarts, pill freaks, junkies, hookers, speed freaks, gurus, whacked-out inverts, thuggish bikers, brutal cops, insane parents, psychotic dwarfs, malignant demons, and greedy pimps as he seeks peace,love and satori in the grimy back alleys of Sin City, Nevada. With over six hundred hard-edged graphic drawings which are geared to addle the brains of the most jaded sophisticate or the dullest illiterate, Paul’s picaresque journey is stunningly illuminated so that every every mind can grok the fullness of this voyage from Sin City to Edge City. So load up your bhong and journey back to a time when love was free, dope was cheap and a country was driven to screaming madness by its own fatal pride. This book will grab your ass like an angry Rottweiler and not let go until you finish the last page and scream for MORE!