Guest Speakers

FLY

Panelist
Illustrator ~ New York City, New York, USA
www.bway.net/~fly

Fly was born in a dumpster. She lived in a whole bunch of different places and lived a whole bunch of different lives until she landed in New York City and finally felt at home - since there were so many dumpsters. She has been hanging out (and squatting) in the Lower East Side of Manhattan since the late 80's where she paints, draws comics and illustrations and sometimes paints murals. Her work has been published by: NYPress, Juxtapoz, The Comics Journal, Village Voice, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Raygun, The Bradleys (Fantagraphics), World War 3 Illustrated, Punk, Maximumrocknroll, MonkeySuit, Slug & Lettuce and many more.

Fly has self-published numerous comics and zines (starting in the early 80's) - a collection of these, entitled CHRON!IC!RIOTS!PA!SM!, was published in 1998 by Autonomedia. PEOPs, a collection of 196 portraits and stories was published in June of 2003 by Soft Skull Press.
 
For several years she toured the world with the God Is My Co-Pilot band pretending to be a rock star and hypnotizing audiences with her dazzling technique on the bass guitar; she also co-founded the infamous Lower East Side punk rock band Zero Content. Although the band has not existed for years they continue to write songs, produce CDs and tour and are more popular than ever.