While the two of them were relatively friendly in high school, Derf definitely noticed some of Dahmer’s strange behavior. Derf hasn’t yet made an appearance in DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, but he played a major role in telling Dahmer’s story after the fact.
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Trashed. San Jose, CA: SLG Publishing, 2004. John Derf Backderf attended high school with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. San Jose, CA: SLG Publishing, 2008.īackderf, Derf. My Friend Dahmer. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2012.īackderf, Derf. Visit artist's website Illustrations by John “Derf” Backderfīackderf, Derf. Backderf is quite skilled in using comics to tell this tale of a truly weird and sinister 1970s adolescent world.”
Crumb described the memoir as, “a well-told, powerful story. John Backderf (b.1959) began his career as an illustrator with The City, an off-beat, witty comic strip that detailed the struggles of the middle-class American male. The strip was was printed in several newspapers from 1990 to 2014. Backderf, using the pseudonym, Derf Backderf, also wrote and illustrated the acclaimed graphic novel, My Friend Dahmer, which details Backderf's junior high and high school friendship with future serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. Backderf adeptly details the events that occurred during this time that anticipated Dahmer's descent into darkness. The memoir offers an empathetic view of a child abandoned by his parents and alienated by his peers who went on to commit some of the most horrific crimes in U.S.
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