Derf Backderf

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 TaylorDerf 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 work from the early days of Underground Comix up to current comics created by those who present "comix versions of their life stories through a marriage of drawings and text". The exhibition is entitled, […]