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| 12/2/2008
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The reviews for Derf's Punk Rock and Trailer Parks have been rolling in lately, and iFanboy has named it the Book of the Month! Reviewer Josh Flanagan writes about Derf's signature drawing style as it's used as a storytelling device:
The art in this book, while not at all photorealistic interprets what life often really looks like. It's got pimples and hairy legs, and most people aren't shaped perfectly. Most of real life is stained and maybe a little bit greasy. So when I'm reading a story about what real life can feel like, I learned to appreciate an art style that doesn't dress things up more than they need to be. The art tells the story, and does it perfectly, and you can't ask more of a comic book artist. The review at Northern Express makes note of Derf's style as well: "As a stylist, few graphic artists match his ability to capture the 'no future' slouch and despair of the underclass."
Finally, (for this post, anyway) there is an interview with Derf at Comics Waiting Room, in which he asks rhetorically, "Did I even have a life before punk?" He adds, "Music speaks to you at age 20 more than any other point in your life. I don't know why that is, but it's just a fact of life."
That's something I always found fascinating -- my father-in-law says pretty much the same thing, though he puts the time frame at your senior year of high school. You might find new music that you love, but what you listened to then will always have a certain constant relevance to you. Derf includes a play list of his essentials in Punk Rock and Trailer Parks.
What would be on your play list? I'd have to go with the entirety of The Smiths' Louder Than Bombs. I was seven when it was released, but I listened to it incessantly throughout my senior year of high school
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