September's Recommended Books
(2003) Lorenz Peter
Originally published as an underground 'zine, Chaos Mission is a harrowing (and at times hilarious) comic autobiography by artist and musician Lorenz Peter. Starting with his disenchanted youth in 'Fort McMurder', Peter goes on to describe a decade of his life in Vancouver and Toronto whose hallmarks include bouts of heavy drug use and periods of semi-homelessness. From this dark period emerges a young man with a distinct artistic drive and vision to accompany his physical and psychic scars. Peter Lorenz currently lives in Toronto where he creates music with sound-rock provocateur Corpusse.
(2010) Ian Brill (ed.)
In the 1970's, CBGB was eponymous for the New York punk scene, and it hosted such legendary acts as the Ramones, Blondie, the Talking Heads and The Fleshtones before anyone else would put them on stage. CBGB OMFUG lovingly chronicles the history and mythology of this now legendary club through a series of short comics.
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