Legendary punk rocker Joey Ramone is the topic of a youngsters’s e-book that speaks to “all the children who really feel slightly totally different.” The e-book is titled Gabba Gabba We Settle for You: The Wondrous Story of Joey Ramone, and will probably be launched on June twenty seventh by way of the report label Drag Metropolis.
The 51-page e-book, which will be pre-ordered by way of 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 mother and father misplaced in Youngsters E-book Land! Gabba Gabba We Settle for You is a youngsters’s image e-book 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 changing into Joey Ramone converse to younger people navigating the complexities of rising up, by way of teachable punk stuff: being your individual particular person with your individual compass, embracing uniqueness, and so forth. Jay Ruttenberg & Lucinda Schreiber mild the story righteously with plain-spoken language, lyrical graphic design and colourful illustrations, discovering surprising depths on each web page.”
Ruttenberg added, “My daughter simply turned 11, so I’ve spent current years in youngsters’s e-book land. I believe I’ve learn her 97 books about Abraham Lincoln and 12,984 about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It occurred to me that lots of the life classes I’ve been attempting to show her weren’t realized by my household or faculty, however by punk stuff: the significance of being your individual particular person, following your individual radar as a substitute of a bunch’s, embracing uniqueness, and so forth. The Ramones, and particularly Joey, appeared like the proper embodiment of that.”
In the meantime, the late Ramones frontman can also be the topic of an in-the-works Netflix film, I Slept With Joey Ramone, starring Pete Davidson and based mostly on the e-book of the identical title by the punk icon’s brother, Mickey Leigh. Nevertheless, manufacturing could also be on pause as a authorized battle ensues between the estates of Joey Ramone and Johnny Ramone.
See the duvet paintings Gabba Gabba We Settle for You: The Wondrous Story of Joey Ramone under.
