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If Gary Panter's the commercial art world's 'successful' punk graphic artist, then Fly is the more authentically 'livin' the lifestyle' crust-punk counterpart. This is one of those bks that reads from front to middle & then from back to middle in the opposite top-bottom orientation. The cover is a copy of a patch jacket. The comix are all about squatting, conflict w/ the police, how to get rid of a tropical parasite called beef worms or screw worms, etc.. All nicely drawn & laid out.

"PEOPs is a collection of portraits & stories of people by Fly. Each page contains a new face surrounded by words - for the most part the words are a story that the person tells about themselves or about something they experienced or about something they heard - it's usually a conversational dialogue - it's all about my interaction with the person while I'm drawing them. The idea for PEOPs happened while I was touring the world in a band called God Is My Co-Pilot. Sometimes we would be in a show more new place almost every day & there was usually time between setting up equipment and the show to get to know the locals. I always had my sketchbook and would draw people just out of habit. The conversations were very interesting because many time people were speaking English as a second language so the way that they phrased things was often very poetic & beautiful...so I would write down the conversations. At some point I realized I had a collection of drawings of people & stories. I thought it would make a great zine. After that I started going after people & making them sit for me & tell me stories. The format became much more structured & refined.

The important thing for me in doing these portraits is the idea of a documentation of a hidden history of everyday life - all the people I have met - artists, activists, writers, travelers, anarchists, poets, cartoonists, pilots, musicians, psychologists, moms, kids, dads, grandparents, punks, dykes, trannies, drug dealers, teachers, squatters - you get the idea. The categories are endless, but the idea is that everyone has an incredible story to tell & everyone deserves a voice everyone deserves to be listened to."

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"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fly is a comic book artist and illustrator,[1] whose art has been published in several magazines and fanzines, including Slug and Lettuce, Maximum Rock 'N' Roll, World War 3 Illustrated, Village Voice.[1][2][3] She is also a former member of New York band God Is My Co-Pilot.[4]

Fly came to work in New York in the late 1980s, and got involved with ABC No Rio, a social center for punks and artists located at 156 Rivington street in New York City's Lower show more East Side.[4] She is a member of the World War 3 Illustrated collective,[5] and a contributor to the anthology Juicy Mother, edited by Jennifer Camper, which was published by Manic D Press in 2007.[6]

In 2003, Fly had an art show held in the Cartoon Art Museumin California.[7] She has also done cover artwork for Hungry March Band, Adeline Records and Geykido Comet Records.[4] Aside from freelance cover artwork, she has printed many photocopy zines of her artwork and published books. In 1998, Fly had her first book, CHRON!IC!RIOTS!PA!SM!, published by Autonomedia.[1][3] In 2003, she published a graphic novel-style book named PEOPS, a collection of portraits and stories about people Fly has met. The book was released by Soft Skull Press, and subtitled “Portraits and Stories of People”.[3] In 2006, she was invited as a guest speaker at the Victoria International Arts Symposium.[8] In December this same year, Fly appeared at the Grace Comics showcase alongside Elizabeth Merrick.[9]

Aside from visual arts, Fly also engages in the spoken word and musical collage art of her band Zero Content (named after one of her comic strips) which can be heard on several Geykido Comet Records Compilations.[1] Previously, she played bass and did vocals for several years with Craig Flanagin in the band God Is My Co-Pilot, with which she went on tours in the 1990s.[1][3][4]" show less