My Friend Dahmer - Album

Name: My Friend Dahmer
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Author: Derf Backderf
ISBN: 9781419727559

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We all have that one friend from school—the strange kid, the class freak, the guy whose antics amused, entertained, and maybe even alarmed us. The one... Lire la suite

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We all have that one friend from school—the strange kid, the class freak, the guy whose antics amused, entertained, and maybe even alarmed us. The one who sticks in our heads even with the passing of the years. That classmate is invariably left behind when we graduate, vanishing into memory, filed away with our old yearbooks and other teenage mementos. But every now and then we wonder, whatever happened to that friend ? For one man who grew up in a small town in Ohio, that question was answered by every media outlet in the world on July 22, 1991, when Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested for the murder of seventeen young men and teenage boys.

Date de parution

01/11/2017
Editeur

Abrams
ISBN

978-1-4197-2755-9
EAN

9781419727559
Format

Album
Présentation

Broché
Nb. de pages

221 pages
Poids

0.653 Kg
Dimensions

15,1 cm × 23,1 cm × 3,2 cm

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My Friend Dahmer is a haunting, original graphic novel by Derf Backderf, an award-winning political cartoonist and comix creator. In these pages, Backderf tries to make sense of the future serial killer with whom he shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides. What emerges is a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man struggling helplessly against the ghastly urges bubbling up from the deep recesses of his psyche.
The Dahmer recounted here, universally regarded as an inhuman monster by the rest of the world, 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 to notice. In My Friend Dahmer, Backderf comes as close as anyone has to explaining the seemingly unexplainable phenomenon of one Jeffrey Dahmer, Revere High School class of 1978.

Biographie de Derf Backderf

Derf BACKDERF was born in 1959 and grew up in the small town of Richfield, Ohio. Following the events in this book and a brief stint at art school, he returned to his hometown and worked on the back of a garbage truck, an experience that was the basis for his first graphic novel, Trashed. He eventually received a scholarship to Ohio State University, where he drew political cartoons for the school paper, the Lantern.
Backderf has been nominated for two Eisner Awards and has received a host of journalism honors, including the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning in 2006. The Derf Collection, comprising twenty-five years of original art and papers, was established at the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in 2009. Backderf lives in Cleveland with his wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and columnist Sheryl Harris, and their two children.
His mother still lives in the house he grew up in, five miles from Dahmer's house.