David Lester is the guitarist in the underground rock duo Mecca Normal. The duo has been cited as an influence on the social movement known as Riot Grrrl. His poster of anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He is the author/illustrator of The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism and the graphic novel The Listener. He designed the labour movement’s weekly newspaper Solidarity Times during the strike of 1983 in British Columbia. David is currently working on a graphic biography of Emma Goldman.