Band For Life [Hardcover]

This is a graphic novel about a noise rock band, based in an alternate reality version of Chicago, and their community of friends and acquaintances. Though beset with disaster at every turnand frequently reduced to squabblingthey stick together because the band is the core of their existence, and they help each other find their way.I?was raised on?old school?adult?comics from the '60s to '80s, the artwork of Pedro Bell, Overton Loyd and Ronald Stozo of the Parliament-Funkadelic Universe, Ralph Bakshi movies, and the like. When I came across?Anya Davidson gets that being in a band is generally about 5% playing music and 95% anything but. In true punk form,?Anya's comics look like Dick Sprang?and Boody Rogers got locked in a Pez factory and were told they would not be released until they produced hundreds of pages of a gutter punkDavidsons work reads like a return to the aggressive no-fucks-given attitude of the underground comix scene of the late 70s and early 80s, but with a much stronger focus on fully developed female characters. Shes committed to exploring the women of Guntits complex personal lives, giving