The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel, Derf Backderf

My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel

Derf Backderf

A national bestseller, Derf Backderf's Alex Award winner My Friend Dahmer is the bone-chilling graphic novel that inspired the major motion picture.

You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer--the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper--seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities.

To Derf Backderf, "Jeff" was a 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 Derf Backderf creates a portrait of a disturbed young man struggling with the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche.

With profound insight, what emerges is a Jeffrey Dahmer that few ever really knew, and one readers will never forget.

Also available by Derf Backderf:
Trashed
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

Book Details

  • Publisher: Abrams Comicarts
  • Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2012
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.25in - 6.04in - 0.85in - 1.29lb
  • EAN: 9781419702174
  • Categories: Nonfiction - Biography & MemoirMurder - Serial Killers

About the Author

Backderf, Derf: - Derf Backderf is the bestselling, award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Trashed. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Praise for this book

"Quietly horrifying. A small, dark classic."-- "Publishers Weekly"
"One of the best graphic novels I've read this year."-- "USA Today's PopCandy"
"One of the most thought-provoking comics released in a long time."-- "Slate.com"
"Carefully researched and sourced with ample back matter, Backderf's tragic chronicle of what shouldn't have been is a real butt-kicker for educators and youth counselors as well as peers of other potential Dahmers. Highly recommended for professionals as well as true crime readers."-- "Library Journal"
"A powerful, unsettling use of the graphic medium to share a profoundly disturbing story . . . An exemplary demonstration of the transformative possibilities of graphic narrative."-- "Kirkus Reviews"