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  • Bruce Paley turned 18 in 1967 during the Summer of Love, putting himon the front lines of the late-1960s youth movement. Paley s tumultuousjourney took him from being a Jack Kerouac-loving hippie in the 1960s, on the road with his 17-year-old girlfriend, dropping acid atDisneyland, living in a car, and crashing with armed Black Panthers atthe infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention, to hanging out atMax s Kansas City, shooting heroin and cocaine with the likes of rockstar Johnny Thunders, and frequenting Times Square s seedy brothels ajourney that mirrored the changing times as the optimism of the 60sgave way to the nihilism of the punk years. Over a dozen years, Brucecrossed paths with hippies, violent cops, rednecks, rock stars, andBlack Panthers... and ended up a heroin addict for much of the 1970s.These stories are vividly brought to life in Giraffes in My Hair (A Rock N Roll Life) by the compelling visual storytelling of Bruce s partner, the cartoonist Carol Swain.Swain s trademark visual approach to comics, typified by exquisitelycomposed panels that vividly capture both anomie and pathos, isperfectly suited to dramatizing Paley s life during that confusing, tumultuous period of American history a life lived in thecountercultural margins, amidst personal chaos and social dissolution.Swain s storytelling rhythms are contemplative and breathes inner lifeinto Paley s turbulent stories, creating a perceptive prism to view thevast possibilities and endless pitfalls as experienced by a kid growingup in America in the late 1960s and early 70s.