Anya Davidson lives in Chicago, IL. She spent most of her 20s in the punk band Coughs.
Band for Life is a warped and hilarious portrayal of the banality
and adventure of bandhood from someone who lived it, but
embellished gloriously by Anya's imagination. Fucked up, feminist
and funny. If you have ever ground away late nights in a basement
trying to desperately remember the bad songs you just wrote, you
will recognize your strife here with the Wildest Band on
Earth.--Jessica Hopper "MTV News"
Anya Davidson gets that being in a band is generally about 5%
playing music and 95% anything but. In true punk form, Band For
Life kicks into high gear with page number one and never lets
up.--Brian Chippendale "Lightning Bolt"
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 punk Herculoids meets Josie
and the Pussycats soap opera dripping soul and neglect.--Gary
Panter "Rozz Tox"
Davidson's 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. She's committed to exploring the women
of Guntit's complex personal lives, giving Band For Life deeper
substance underneath the bold visual style.-- "The A.V. Club"
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 Band For Life, I was immediately drawn in. The
art reminded me of Funkadelic album covers, but with its own
original swagger. The storylines spoke to my personal experience as
a lifelong musician and band leader/member, in the same way that
This Is Spinal Tap made me cry once I realized my life was as
absurd as the movie. Anya Davidson is tapped into the very human
experience that makes life in a band the story of family.--Norwood
Fisher "Fishbone"
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