Peops: Portraits and Stories of People

by Fly

Peops is a collection of portraits and stories about people Fly met while she was touring the world with the popular underground band God Is My Co-Pilot. The sketches and conversations, mostly culled from spare moments between sound checks, performing and loading equipment, reflect the surprisingly deep and beautiful way that strangers sometimes communicate with one another. The idea behind the book, says Fly, is that everyone has an incredible story to tell and that everyone deserves to be listened to.

Genres: Comics, Art, Graphic Novels

200 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2003

Reviews

[Splendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's more of a published collection of zines or maybe a graphic autobiography or just a peek inside someone's sketchbook, rather than a novel-type book. This is a 100% original concept, which is hard to come by these days. It's a concept that could and should (to avoid monotony) be applied to a wide, cross-section of society, if possible.

Pick up PEOPS and select a page to randomly read, or just read it from cover to cover. Read the stories or just focus on the artwork. Either way, you'll gain access to a world that is completely different from your own. It's a world filled with risk, emotion, and some serious punk shit. I knew nothing about squatters before reading this book.

Each page covers someone that Fly, the author and illustrator, has encountered either as a friend or housemate. She interviews the subjects while drawing a portrait of them in an attempt to capture their essence or a reflection of their personality. It might just take you the entire length of the book to absorb and understand the "characters," rather, real people who comprise a scene so real and raw you just might think it's fiction.

[Kriss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fly is a phenomenal artist. Her observations of people are interesting & her portraits of them are really awesome. There is a DVD that my partner & I (as Killer Banshee Studios) created...visuals based on Fly's portraits with each of the people retelling their story w/ a custom composition underneath their voices. You can find it at killerbanshee.com

[Brook · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent bus/toilet book- good for short spurts. Made me hanker for good times in the city in my early twenties.

[jack]

good collection. interesting idea. i liked chronic!riot!spasm better tho.

[J. Rogue · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have friends in the book and all, but it struck me as a book of activist/ punk scenesters. Not my cups of tea.

[Bec · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Fly! This book was inspiring to me to think about how amazing the people I know are, and also to want to draw more portraits of people.