Tru-ish Tales: Comics

Glenn Head began drawing comics when he was fourteen. His work has appeared in print from the Wall Street Journal to Screw. In the early ‘90s, Head co-created (with cartoonist Kaz), Snake Eyes, the Harvey award-nominated comix anthology series. His solo books include Avenue D and Guttersnipe, which capture the intense, gritty underbelly of street life. From 2005 to 2010 Glenn edited and contributed to the Harvey-and Eisner-nominated anthology Hotwire. His graphic memoir, Chicago (Fantagraphics), is the hilarious and harrowing tale of a nineteen-year-old virgin who drops out of everything and into the unknown.

Derf Backderf is the recipient of the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning. His weekly comic strip, The City, appeared in more than one hundred newspapers over the past twenty-two years. Derf Backderf’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller My Friend Dahmer, is an ode to the crap job of all crap jobs—garbage collector. Trashed (Abrams ComicArts) is fiction, but is inspired by Derf’s own experiences as a garbage man. Interspersed are nonfiction pages that detail what our garbage is and where it goes. The answers will stun you.