Trashed

by Derf Backderf

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

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics

48 pages, Paperback

Published February 18, 2002

About the author

John Backderf is a Eisner-award-winning American comics creator, also known as Derf Backderf. He is most famous for his recent graphic novels, especially My Friend Dahmer, the international bestseller which won an Angoulême Prize, and earlier for his comic strip The City, which appeared in a number of alternative newspapers from 1990–2014.

Derf has been nominated for multiple Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz awards and a Rueben Award. In 2006, he won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning. Backderf has been based in Cleveland, Ohio, for much of his career.

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Should be required reading for anyone who thinks they want to be a garbageman for the summer.

[Abir · Rating 3 out of 5]

J'aime Derf Backderf. 😊

[Nikola · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a story I might say: '' Been there, done that'' . I was really enjoining it because I've also worked for a minimum wage summer job, taking care of gardening, cleaning beaches and also taking care of waste disposal and dead animals (mostly seagulls). For me It's was an important life experience. The story is simple, funny, and not so dark and psychological as his later work with ''My friend Dahmer'' .

[es•ka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pour avoir fait ce métiers plusieurs années, je peux dire que certaines anecdotes me sont aussi arrivées :)

[Adrienne Shurte · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an environmental scientist who specializes in landfills, this was a fun and refreshing graphic novel to read that was a reminder of where our trash comes from and the beginning of the journey for trash into landfills. I don't know if it's for everyone though; however I enjoyed it, as it was fun and had some great educational facts.

[Salty Swift · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spanning the length of a summer, the author shares his (mis)adventures of working as a garbage collector. Who knew having a rancid, stench job would lead to so much fun and mischief?