My Friend Dahmer

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 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 Derf Backderf creates a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man struggling against the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche a 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. Also available by Derf Backderf: Trashed Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
Title: My Friend Dahmer
Author(s): Backderf Derf
Publisher: Abrams
Barcode: 9781419702174
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 3/1/2012
Series: Graphic Biographies
Category: Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-Fiction