Legendary punk rocker Joey Ramone is the topic of a kids’s guide that speaks to “all the youngsters who really feel somewhat totally different.” The guide is titled Gabba Gabba We Settle for You: The Wondrous Story of Joey Ramone, and shall be launched on June twenty seventh through the document label Drag Metropolis.
The 51-page guide, which may be pre-ordered through Amazon or the Drag Metropolis web site, was written by Jay Ruttenberg and illustrated by Lucinda Schreiber. An official description reads as follows:
“Calling all dad and mom misplaced in Children Ebook Land! Gabba Gabba We Settle for You is a kids’s image guide telling the story of a misfit child who grew as much as be a punk rock hero. The difficult instances that Jeffrey Ross Hyman endured earlier than turning into Joey Ramone communicate to younger people navigating the complexities of rising up, through teachable punk stuff: being your personal individual with your personal compass, embracing uniqueness, and so on. Jay Ruttenberg & Lucinda Schreiber gentle the story righteously with plain-spoken language, lyrical graphic design and colourful illustrations, discovering sudden depths on each web page.”
Ruttenberg added, “My daughter simply turned 11, so I’ve spent latest years in kids’s guide land. I feel I’ve learn her 97 books about Abraham Lincoln and 12,984 about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It occurred to me that a whole lot of the life classes I’ve been attempting to show her weren’t discovered by means of my household or faculty, however by means of punk stuff: the significance of being your personal individual, following your personal radar as an alternative of a gaggle’s, embracing uniqueness, and so on. The Ramones, and particularly Joey, appeared like the proper embodiment of that.”
In the meantime, the late Ramones frontman can be the topic of an in-the-works Netflix film, I Slept With Joey Ramone, starring Pete Davidson and primarily based on the guide of the identical title by the punk icon’s brother, Mickey Leigh. Nonetheless, manufacturing could also be on pause as a authorized battle ensues between the estates of Joey Ramone and Johnny Ramone.
See the quilt paintings Gabba Gabba We Settle for You: The Wondrous Story of Joey Ramone under.
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