One Dirty Tree
By Noah Van Sciver
The beauty of autobiographical comics is in the mundane, and stories about unceasing wanking and mean girlfriends can still be tender and graceful. They can also let you glimpse inside somebody else’s world, and the shit they had to put up with.
Noah Van Schiver has a lot to put up with One Dirty Tree, chronicling a family life that is incredibly crowded and chaotic, with a vast clan of kids dealing with real poverty. As a relatively new father, I feel the patriarch of this family is a complete shithead - even as I appreciate he is suffering from mental issues that mean that shitheadedness is not his fault - and the things he puts his family through are fairly dramatic.
Van Schiver’s scratchy, grainy line is straight from memory, even as time plays tricks. But he captures the grime and grind of getting through the day in a household with no money, as their father abandons his responsibilities to keep them all warm and fed.
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