The project will be based on the graphic novel by John "Derf" Backderf that follows Jeffrey Dahmer from age 12 to the day he kills his first victim. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Released earlier in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Following a four-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, Cleveland artist John “Derf” Backderf is preparing for the release of his latest graphic novel, “Kent State: Four Dead ...

Derf Backderf’s new graphic novel, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, which will be published in April by Abrams ComicArts, is a meticulously researched, emotionally gripping account of the era-defining ...

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 ...

Sometimes you spend an entire film wondering why it exists. Any feature, as anybody reading this likely knows, is a massive undertaking that requires months or years of intense, sustained effort. Even ...

A key component of any high school social circle is the strange friend. For most us, the worst that happens is that “friend” goes on to send the occasional Facebook invite to their embarrassing art ...

Then a socially withdrawn, eventually hard-drinking student with a penchant for amateur taxidermy and pranks, Dahmer (as Backderf tells it) was already fighting dark urges and was largely left to his ...

At a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con Abrams ComicArts announced it will team with Peanuts Worldwide to publish The Art of Peanuts, a new hardcover collection of original art and ...

It’s a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. It’s kind of unnerving when that work of literature is a graphic novel called My Friend ...

After a standout premiere at 2017’s Tribeca Film Festival, Marc Meyers’s My Friend Dahmer, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Derf Backderf, finally has an appropriately chilling trailer.

At night, Jeffrey Dahmer dreamt about having sex with corpses. Then he got up, went to school and proceeded with his day as a fairly typical suburban teen in small town Ohio. He had a group of friends ...