Derf Backderf Archives

Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Derf Backderf, Alison Bechdel, Khalil Bendib, Matt Bors, Ellen Crenshaw, Mike Curato, Juno Dawson, Evan Dorkin, Neil Gaiman, Roxane Gay, Deborah Hopkinson, Miles Hyman, Kelly Jensen, Lita Judge, Rupi Kaur, Maia Kobabe, Lois Lowry, Carmen Maria Machado, Dylan Meconis, Ryan North, David Small, Amir Soltani, Art Spiegelman and Colleen AF Venableare. Missouri schools[...]

From Bleeding Cool's Marilyn Weiss: The graphic novel My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf was published 2012 It chronicles a short period of time during Backderf's high school years, during which he was schoolfriends with a then-teenaged Jeffrey Dahmer. For those of you who may not be familiar, Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most infamous serial killers in[...]

Entertainment Weekly has the first photo from the upcoming film My Friend Dahmer, adapting the comic of that same name by cartoonist Derf Backderf, who actually grew up as a childhood friend of the famous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer The photo shows actor Ross Lynch, formerly of Disney Channel series Austin & Ally and Disney made-for-TV[...]

He plays his guitar while biding his time for unsuspecting tourists and thinking about going to grad school. Punk Rock and Trailer Parks TPB (SLG Publishing, $8.99/digital, $15.95/hard copy) By Cat Taylor Derf Backderf, the writer and artist of this trade paperback, could be just about anyone I've ever met in the punk rock underground[...]

The Stedman Gallery at Rutgers-Camden in Philadelphia is running a large-scale exhibit of original artwork, related talks, and multi-media that features