"Hysterically funny!"
–Boston Globe

"Brilliant!" –Newsarama

"Mordantly funny. One of the
stand-out graphic novels of the year."–Booklist

"A virtual love letter to punk rock. An incredibly likeable book."
–Daily Cross Hatch

"Five stars!"
– The Comic Buyer's Guide

"There's very little that's typical about Punk Rock and Trailer Parks. Funny, smart, and insightful."
–Rackraids.com

"Five stars! Derf rules!
Long live The Baron!"
–Goodreads.com

"Derf has nailed it!"
–iFanboy.com

One of the best graphic
novels of the year.
–Cleveland Plain Dealer

CBG Fan Award winner
for "Best Story!"


Winner
Priz Bulles Zik 2014
France

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Now available as an eBook
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UPDATE JULY 2015. PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS is no longer available from the SLG Comics Store. However, Amazon will continue to be re-supplied. I usually discourage folks from buying from Amazon, but there's no other option here, so have at it. The Comixology download is also excellent, and I actually receive a royalty from these sales, so if owning a physical copy is not important to you, please opt for that.

PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS, released in 2010, is the first graphic novel by comix creator Derf Backderf. It has since been released in French, where it became a critical hit and a bestseller, and was awarded the Priz Bulles Zik for outstanding graphic novel of 2014.

It takes place in recession-ravaged Akron, Ohio, in 1980, at the peak of the Rubber City's unlikely and lively punk rock scene, a pop-culture phenomenon that spawned distinctive acts such as Devo, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and so many other groups that Melody Maker referred to Akron as "the new Liverpool." The story follows the triumphs and travails of one colorful young man, Otto, who lives in the family-owned trailer park on the outskirts of the Rubber Capital. He backs into the punk counter-culture by chance and through talent, wit and sheer force of personality soon becomes a local star. Otto chases fame and love and has memorable encounters with punk luminaries such as the Clash's Joe Strummer, Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics and rock scribe Lester Bangs.

PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS conjures up the oppressive insanity of growing up in the Rustbelt, the day-to-day weirdness of the trailer parks tucked away therein, the magic allure of sex and the necessary comforts of friendship, the mystical power of the counter-culture to turn outcasts into heroes and, most of all, the transcendent power of music, specifically the punk rock of the late 1970's which redefined, transported, and ultimately, perhaps, disappointed a generation. It's a tale as gritty, raucous and bawdy as punk music itself.

PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS is an evocative, hilarious, and ultimately poignant book that will appeal to anyone whose youthful dreams live on.

Curious about the Rubber City Punk Scene?

READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE

And here's some interviews and reviews

Derf on Inkstuds podcast

An interview with NPR about PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS,
conducted on the streets of the Rubber City!

iFanboy.com names PR&TP its book-of-the-month. The review.

The Daily Crosshatch review HERE

Interview on the making of PR&TP at Newsarama HERE

Interview with Comicon's The Pulse HERE