TRUE STORIES (2014)
"Derf, creator of the graphic novels Trashed, Punk Rock & Trailer Parks, and the international bestseller, My Friend Dahmer, presents the best of his True Stories from the long running The City comic strip, as seen in Best American Comics. It's like Humans of New York, but somewhat stranger. Pressure Pressure "
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Writer
Derf Backderf
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TRUE STORIES #1 (MR)
"Derf, creator of the graphic novels Trashed, Punk Rock & Trailer Parks, and the international bestseller, My Friend Dahmer, presents the best of his True Stories from the long running The City comic strip, as seen in Best American Comics. It's like Humans of New York, but somewhat stranger. Pressure Pressure "
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TRUE STORIES #2 (MR)
"The second collection of one-page stories, culled from the popular, long-running weekly comic strip, The City, by award-winning graphic novelist Derf Backderf (Trashed, My Friend Dahmer). Hilarious, sometimes troubling, occasionally poignant, Derf's observational snippets are a hysterical look into the American psyche. "
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TRUE STORIES #3 (MR)
"My Friend Dahmer author Derf Backderf offers his third volume of True Stories, culled from his long-running alt-weekly comic strip, The City. This volume features stories from 1996 to 2001. Derf takes us back to the halcyon days of the 1990s with hilarious, sometimes troubling, always timeless stories fished from the crankcase oil that coalesces in the bottom of the American psyche."
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TRUE STORIES #4 (MR)
"Eisner Award-winning My Friend Dahmer author Derf Backderf returns with his final volume of True Stories, culled from his long-running alt comic strip, The City. Volume Four features weird and hilarious stories from 1990 to 1995, when Gen X was flying the flannel and cell phones were as big as bricks."