Fly

by Fly Orr (Contributor)

Audio CD

About the author

Fly is a comic artist, textile artist, "crust punk," musician, feminist, squatter, illustrator, muralist, chronicler, teacher, and community activist. She has documented the Alphabet City/Loisaida neighborhood in comics, zines, photography, and more over the course of more than three decades.

Fly arrived in New York City in 1988 but permanently began living in New York's Lower East Side in 1990. She was stationed in the Gargoyle Mechanic Lab (performance and art space in the lower east side in the late 1980s-90s). She was squatting in the 209 East 7th Street building starting in 1992 and assigned to her space since 1995. At the same time, she was the bassist and singer of a queercore band, God Is My Co-Pilot (GodCo) and toured with the band internationally in 1995. She also worked at Kinko's East Houston street location from 1995 to 1998, then as a fashion illustration model at FIT, Parson, SVA, and Pratt from 1998 to 2002, and as a clerk at St. Mark's bookshop from 2003 to 2010. Fly created many of her artworks and music during this time and collaborated with other like-minded artists on various comics, zines, including cover art for music albums and books.