Rufus Baxter at the Crossroads

[jump] Editor's note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver shares his ongoing story of an '80s rocker on a road trip through his past with the readers of Backbeat. You can see more of Van Sciver's work in his new book YOUTH IS WASTED. Last Week's episode!!...

By Noah Van Sciver

February 4, 2015

Audio By Carbonatix

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Editor's note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver shares his ongoing story of an '80s rocker on a road trip through his past with the readers of Backbeat. You can see more of Van Sciver's work in his new book YOUTH IS WASTED.

Last Week's episode!!

Noah Van Sciver's work has appeared in Mad, The Best American Comics, The Believer, Wired, Vice and The Stranger, as well as countless graphic anthologies.

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