My Friend Dahmer

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title My Friend Dahmer
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Derf Backderf
SeriesGraphic Biographies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 153
ISBN/Barcode 9781419702174
ClassificationsDewey:364.15232092
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Abrams
Imprint Abrams
Publication Date 1 March 2012
Publication Country United States

Description

My Friend Dahmer is the hauntingly original graphic novel by Derf Backderf, the award winning political cartoonist. In these pages, Backderf tries to make sense of Jeffery Dahmer, the future serial killer with whom he shared classrooms, hallways, libraries and car rides. What emerges is a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a young man struggling helplessly against the urges, some ghastly, bubbling up from the deep recesses of his psyche. The Dahmer recounted here, although universally regarded as an inhumane monster, is a lonely oddball who, in reality, is all too human. A shy kid sucked inexorably into madness while the adults in his life fail him. The crimes Dahmer committed are incredibly depraved, infamous and unforgettable, but in My Friend Dahmer, Backderf provides profound insight into how, and more important, why Jeffery Dahmer transformed from a high school loner into the most depraved serial killer since Jack the Ripper, coming as close as anyone yet has to explaining the seemingly unexplainable phenomenon of Jeffery Dahmer.

Author Biography

Derf Backderf has been nominated for two Eisner Awards and received a host of journalism honours. He has published a number of previous graphic novels and has been consistently published in both magazines and newspapers across America.