James Spooner’s comic is getting national acclaim. It wasn’t easy being Black or a punk in the high desert circa 1990, the artist tells columnist David Allen.
was part of the punk scene circa 1990 in Apple Valley. Such as it was. There were no concerts to attend.
“I’d been moshing with my friends for six months before I saw an actual concert. A mosh pit is a circle and everyone goes counterclockwise,” Spooner explains. “I didn’t know that and went clockwise. I got pummeled.”subtitled “Black. Punk. Nowhere,” is a coming-of-age story that he wrote and illustrated. HarperCollins published it in hardcover last year to acclaim by the Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, American Library Association and others.
Now 46, he lived in Barstow and then Apple Valley from 1981-1991, other than two years in Panama. I lived in Victorville from 1994-1997 when I worked for the Victor Valley Daily Press.
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