“Much has been written about the punk scenes of New York, London, and LA. Adele Bertei inks 1970s Cleveland, where burning water provided an existential backdrop to a demimonde centered around the doomed, charismatic figure of her friend and band mate Peter Laughner. Peter and the Wolves is a Just Kids of the heartland, with Bertei a poète maudit as in love with rock’n’roll as her hero Patti Smith.”—Evelyn McDonnell