True Stories Volume 1 by Derf Backderf

True Stories Volume 1 Reviews

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  Sam Quixote

  True Stories is a slice-of-life four-panel strip that ran in Derf Backderf’s comic The City. This first volume collects the strips from 2002 to 2008, and it’s really funny!
  
  We get to see all the oddballs that occupy middle America: the rednecks and rightwingers, random crazy people on the street, the fat and the stupid, well-off self-serving dickheads and a weird guy at the Post Office who repeats “Pressure” (he’s on the cover)!
  
  Most of the strips are amusing and entertaining. There’s a dude in a library crying at a public computer because his buttcrack hurts(!) and another one who orders a pizza then puts it on top of his baby carrier - with his baby in the carrier! And Derf’s exaggeratedly grotesque art style is well-suited to depicting the characters in these pages.
  
  Some of the strips do feel mean-spirited and repetitive at times - several are just pointing and laughing at morbidly obese Americans - but True Stories Volume 1 is still a great little collection of comics that fans of Derf Backderf will definitely enjoy.
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  Bailey

  Love Derf Backderf's unnerving drawing style and he has a knack for the anecdotal form, but this collection of comics from 2002-2008 shows how acceptable fat-shaming was back then. An interesting time capsule.
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  Canavan

  ✭✭✭½
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  Václav

  (1,5 of 5)
  I don't know what to think of this. But it was terrible.
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  Sherrie

  Humorous look at everyday happenings that leave you shaking your head. This was a quick and easy read that I enjoyed so much I purchased the next volume of True Stories. I also plan on checking some of the authors other books out as well including Trashed and My Friend Dahmer.
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  Peacegal

  Backderf hits another one out of the park. For all of you who have stepped back, observed the behavior of your fellow humans, and just shook your head in awe and confusion. Like a more vulgar (and far funnier) version of "Life in these United States."
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  Brandy Fozo

  I read his graphic novel My Friend Dahmer and quite enjoyed that. This series I didn’t care for much at all. Only a couple of the true stories were any good, the rest were quite meh. I personally would not recommend this series.
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  Romane Pl

  J'aime tellement le trait et ces histoires de dingues et de fous qui se traînent dans les USA des années 70-80. Je pourrais me plonger dans cet univers pour toujours. Mais je préfère quand même ses histoires plus sombres.
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  Scott Eggerding

  Read the other 3 first
  
  I am a huge fan of Derf's, but this collection relies too much on fat jokes and Wal Mart memes His other books get more at the human condition without so much cynicism.
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  Benjamin Kahn

  Little snippets of everyday life, as observed by Backderf. Mildly interesting.
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  Kirsti

  I like slice-of-life stuff, but I did not enjoy the fat shaming. His other books are much better.
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  مصطفي سليمان

  سكتشات قصيرة لطيفة اسلوب الرسم غريب لكن يخليك تكمل لسبب ما ولكني حبيته فيه قصص تقدر ترتبط بيها وقصص بعيدة عنك
  ولكن في المجمل القصص في العموم لطيفة وبسيطة ��قصيرة
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  Maritsa

  3.5
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  Jack

  3.5
  A fun collection of (hopefully) true-to-life oddities, but some are a bit too judgmental for my taste.
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  Andrew Shaffer

  The first volume of this series is the best, as it skips around chronologically later on. The fat-shaming in the earlier strips…bah gawd, the ‘90s.
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  Salty Swift

  Derf Backderf delights with a slew of hilarious true life vignettes...can't wait to read the remaining volumes.
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  Derek Royal

  First in four volumes that will reprint The City bits. This is a wonderful collection of strips, although at times a few come across as a little nasty. Still, I love Backderf's grotesque renderings that reflect a grotesque cultural condition.
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  Simon Sweetman

  Having read some of his longer works - moving into memoir/non-fiction - it was fun to go back to the strips/comics...that said, I think I prefer the longer works...Still, some good stuff here.
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  Vikram Jairam

  Very good illustration
  
  Reality portrayed well with good humor. We need more like this. I finished the book in about 20 minutes. Good stuff, though.