Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 32-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
David Lester’s impeccably drawn “The Battle Of Ballantyne Pier” has been published in an anthology called Drawn To Change: Graphic Histories Of Working-Class Struggle. It’s fantastic that they got a quote from Noam Chomsky! “This evocative collection of the struggles and achievements of labor organizing should inspire us to ‘dream of what might be’ and to act to bring it about.”
On a different, but related front, David has posted some of the first drawings for his graphic novel in progress about Emma Goldman.
“In January” from the album The Family Swan (Kill Rock Stars, 2002) (download):
