Hot Valley Days and Cocaine Nights Team Talks Bringing an Unforgettable True Story to Comics
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The 80s is a decade often looked at nostalgically for its fashion, music, films, and other trademark imagery, though other aspects of the time are also quite well known. Empires were built from the fortunes brought in from drugs, especially cocaine, and business and partying became one and the same in this surreal and dangerous environment. This is the world that a 15-year-old girl named Janie finds herself right in the middle of in Antarctic Press
Hot Valley Days & Cocaine Nights by Matthew Spradlin and Sean E. DeMott, and the series follows her journey from her small town in Ohio to becoming a powerful drug hustler in L.A. and her attempt to get out of the life. ComicBook.com had the chance to speak to DeMott and Spradlin all about the series, which concludes with issue #3 and is based on a true story.