Garage Band
Nothing to do with Music. Everything to do with Getting Even

I appreciated the artwork--the watercolors and lines follow suit with the story (the grittiness of friends starting a band in their garage, the struggles of a generation trying to find its way, the complexity of music and its influences)... That said, I wanted more. I wanted to know more about the ch......more

Kral çıplak… Gipi’nin sanatı bildiğimiz gibi. Bu adamın yeteneği var. Ama… Anlattığı şeyler hakkında aynı hissi besleyemiyorum, en azından bu kitapta. Böyle bir eserin yollar, kilometreler aşıp, Türkçe’ye çevirilip kuşe kağıda basılmasını ilginç buluyorum. Sonsuz bir olasılıklar denizi Türkçe basılma......more

I just finished reading this very heartwarming graphic novel about four teenage boys, their band, and a garage in which they practice. More than anything it is about these four lives, their individual strife and struggles, their dreams and ambitions, and their relationships with people around them –......more

Gipi is an Italian graphic novelist and Garage Band is his most recent work. It’s the story of four boys who come from divergent backgrounds but join together for a common cause. We’re given four models of urban adolescence: Stefano is a cut-up, rebellious and crude, Alex is damaged, ungrateful and......more

Four teenage boys living in a rural town form a band and are given a garage by one of the boys' fathers to practice their music in. This is the story of their very different lives and how despite their backgrounds they are brought together by a shared love of music. Gipi writes and draws a compellin......more