Product Description

True stories about a side of society most people try not to think about. Garbage Collector turned comic artist Derf shares several tales about his exerpiences collecting garbage in a rural Midwest town after graduating from high school. Disgusting, fascinating, shocking and hilarious, Trashed shows readers a new world that words alone could never capture, but spares them the horrible smell.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #641060 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 48 pages

Review
"Derf's caricature style art perfectly compliments the hilarity of the story." -- Jim Johnson, Comic Buyer's Guide, February 2002

About the Author
The Cleveland-based cartoonist Derf is the creator of the popular comic strip The City. He grew up in a small, rural Ohio town, where he went to high school with Jeffrey Dahmer and worked as a trash collector for a year.

Using his distinctive style, keen observations and superb sense of storytelling, Derf draws on these experiences for the subject matter of his two recent works My Friend Dahmer and this book, Trashed.

After drawing political cartoons for the Ohio State University newspaper and then being fired from his cartooning position at a Florida newspaper for "general tastelessness," Derf debuted The City in the now-defunct Cleveland Edition in 1990.

The strip quickly gained a following and now appears in over 60 alternative weekly newspapers, including The Los Angeles New Times, Atlanta Creative Loafing, The Chicago Reader, and Cleveland Scene.

Customer Reviews

Derf Herder
Spend enough time on the back of a garbage truck and you'll be surprised how much you can learn about a man by the trash he sets out. And no one throws as much away as we do right here in America, god love us. We're an open book. (In fact, it wouldn't surprise me, Tom, if our landfills were, at this moment, swarming with al Qaeda. Better send out a Code Red*.)

And no syndicated cartoonist understands this better than Derf. His full-sized, 50-page comic Trashed: True Tales from the Back of a Garbage Truck hilariously encapsulates his rancid days clinging to Cyclops, an ancient, caustic behemoth stripped to its last gear. The year is nineteen-hundred-and-seventy-nine, and in the heat of an Ohio small-town summer, the future author of the weekly strip The City takes on ranting elderly residents, steaming bags of dog waste, porta-potty maintenance, and trashcans brimming with old auto parts. *Heavy* old auto parts.

Trashed is steeped in the sweat...and vinegar that can perhaps be best appreciated by those who've huffed it, putting in an honest day's work cleaning up other people's stuff while dodging the errant spurt of hopper juice. As for those who come no closer than leaving the week's newspapers, stuffed with their spawn's soiled Pampers, out for the recycling detail, Trashed can at best offer a few suggestions as to why you return home to find your cans in your trees.

*Or is it orange?

Great stuff!
I thought TRASHED was hilarious! I was laughing so much my girlfriend kept looking over my shoulder to see what the big deal was. This is some gross stuff, but in a good way! Some of the things that happen to the two main characters are so over the top nasty that you know it must be true. I highly recommend this book - money well spent.

Absolutely Fantastic
This is one of the best books I've picked up recently, let alone a comic book! I'm glad I decided to take that plunge, this material is laugh out loud funny. If you've had any hesitations at all, it's time to drop them and pick this up now. You will not be disappointed.