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When I was asked to put together a playlist for All My Friends I had to sit with the idea for a bit. It’s tricky putting music to a comic because what if a reader “hears” it differently than the tracklist you’re presenting and thinks, “Um, I hate this?”
So I chose to assemble a bunch of songs that have, for the most part, a lo-fi, DIY, pages-ripped-from-a-teenaged-girl’s-diary vibe to them. The playlist kicks off with the Marine Girls, a group of teenage girls from the early 1980s. It features a track from The Go-Go’s, who were discussed in All Together Now, and a track from P.S. Eliot, a band started by Katie and Allison Crutchfield (who got a name-drop in All My Friends). Maybe you imagine the bands in the book as sounding totally different from these songs, and they probably would as most of these bands are from the ’80s and ’90s and times have changed. But this is the kind of sound I was imagining as I wrote and drew the book.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
From New York Times-bestselling and Eisner Award-winning creator Hope Larson comes All My Friends, the final standalone book in a middle grade graphic novel trilogy about friendship, family, and music. Perfect for fans of Real Friends by Shannon Hale.
Middle-schooler Bina has everything she’s ever wanted. She has new friends and a new band whose song is about to be featured on her favorite television show.
But being in the spotlight is hard. When Bina and her band are offered a record deal, her parents are not thrilled. Now, Bina is barely speaking to her mom and dad. To make matters worse, Bina and her best friend, Austin, are still awkward around each other after their failed first date.
Can Bina untangle the various melodies in her heart? Or will fame go to her head?
