Gray Stitches

Black soot is seeping out of the high, towering industrial chimneys, which are poking out into the sky, splitting the dark, gray sky into hundreds of little pieces.
The smoke is diffusing into the wide expanse of monotonousness, disappearing along with the surrounding fifty shades of gray.

I'll stop right there, as I unwantingly made a reference to a pornographic book written by none other than that same person that wrote about sparkling vampires and emo teenagers willing to make out with said vampires.

Back to the smoke. That is how the graphic novel Stitches starts. The first illustration is that of Detroit, expressed as a gloomy city with only tones of black and white. The protagonist was six. And this is how the memoir starts.

Now, this book cannot be more fitting at this point, because it starts talking about the narrator's family's different forms of 'language.'
The mom slammed kitchen cupboard doors, and "that was her language."
The dad thumped a punching bag, and "that was his language."
The brother beat on his drum, and "that was his language."
As for the protagonist, the youngest of the family, "getting sick" was the language.

All of this, being portrayed in black, gray, and white with minimal shading. This, at least for me, shows that something about the environment the narrator grew up in was devoid of much emotions. It might be just me, but it seems that the other characters' eyes are never shown too much. Mom, dad, and brother all have glasses, and instead of a pair of eyes, there are usually a pair of white 'holes.' This can also be seen in the cover of the book. Again, I can't see much emotion here and there. Except for in the narrator himself.

That makes sense though. It's his memoir.

Judging by the images I'm seeing, such as that of a human fetus chasing the narrator through a hospital corridor, the overall tone seems gloomy or disturbed, indicating the narrator's troubled childhood.

Unlike most other memoirs I've read recently, this one seems much more metaphoric and expressive. Could it be for the fact that it's graphically represented?
Maybe.