The Last Band on Earth

Description

A dystopian horror story about music and mental illness.

Nat and her bandmates in The Dead Layaways want to go on tour, but the demonic entities who run their city have other idea, not to mention the dark cloud that hangs over everything stifles their creativity. This ruined place is not their home, and they have no idea how they ended up here, or where “home” even is. Is there really nothing but endless wasteland beyond the city limits, as the demons claim?

Much like the author’s previous work, The Last Band On Earth draws on themes of mental illness and attempted recovery. It is about being in your 20s and still not feeling like a Real Adult, and the fear that time is running out.

“A ripping post-apocalyptic road trip horror adventure that’s both dreadfully creepy and triumphantly defiant. Like all great punk tunes it’s all killer, no filler. I loved this comic so much.” -Ryan Dunlavey (Action Philosophers, The Comic Book History Of Comics)

“Captures the authentic experience of playing in a band, the quest for authenticity, touring in a crappy van, playing for small, unappreciative audiences, and building a monstrous horror/fantasy world that is a wonderful metaphor for facing your demons to make vital, challenging art.” -Dave Chisholm (Miles Davis & the Search for the Sound, Spectrum)

About the creator:

Elaine M. Will: Elaine M. Will is a Joe Shuster Award winning cartoonist and illustrator from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has contributed work to a wide range of different creative projects, including magazine illustration, animation storyboards, poster design, graphic layout design, and a newspaper comic strip for Saskatoon’s Verb magazine. Elaine is most well-known for writing and illustrating Look Straight Ahead, an award winning graphic novel about a teenage boy’s struggle with mental illness. The Last Band On Earth is her third graphic novel with Renegade Arts Entertainment.