My Friend Dahmer

About Derf Backderf

You only THINK you know this story. In 1991 Jeffrey Dahmerthe most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripperseared himself into the American consciousness. To the public Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. To Derf Backderf Jeff was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms hallways and car rides. In My Friend Dahmer a haunting and original graphic novel writer-artist Backderf creates a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man struggling against the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psychea shy kid a teenage alcoholic and a goofball who never quite fit in with his classmates. With profound insight what emerges is a Jeffrey Dahmer that few ever really knew and one readers will never forget.