Garage Band

By Gipi, Spectrum (translator),

Book cover of Garage Band

Book description

When Giuliano's father loans him the family garage, he and three of his friends form a band. Playing their battered secondhand instruments, the four teenagers find something they love to do, and they find in their friendship and music a refuge from difficult and turbulent home lives. But when their…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked Garage Band as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

For my money, Gipi is the best living comic book storyteller in the world right now and while it’s incredibly hard to pick a single book, I went with Garage Band, which elevates the drama of a very simple situation, teenagers escaping the turmoil of their lives through music who have to figure out what to do when their only amp dies. It reminds me of how every teenaged moment felt like an opera of life or death. In his art, in his stories, in his characters, Gipi gives simple things an impossible depth. 

Want books like Garage Band?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Garage Band.

Browse books like Garage Band

Book cover of Tekkonkinkreet
Book cover of Why I Hate Saturn
Book cover of Elektra: Assassin

Share your top 3 reads of 2024!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,588

readers submitted
so far, will you?

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in friendships, dysfunctional families, and teenage boys?

Friendships 1,518 books
Teenage Boys 38 books