A review by rbreade
My Riot by Rick Spears

Spears sets this story in the mid-1990s, and captures Valerie Simmons, a 17-year-old girl, as she discovers the Riot Grrrl movement, DIYs a punk rock band with a friend and then adds a third (got to have some bass), deals with body-shame issues, sexism, and misogyny--there always seems to plenty of that in the world, no matter the decade--and during it all, grows up, leaves home, and finds a place where she's happy, still able to make music and be political. The art and colors by Emmett Helen fit the punk aesthetic perfectly: not pretty and polished, but jagged and full of energy.