Where is John “Derf” Backderf now? He wrote 'My Friend Dahmer' long prior to the Netflix miniseries, 'DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.'
Many people who were close to Jeffrey Dahmer have been very unlucky — some were blamed for the serial killer’s actions, others had been not noted and forgotten, and the unluckiest have been murdered in chilly blood. But John “Derf” Backderf used to be one of the most first folks to share Dahmer’s story, which resulted in a lot of his essential luck as a cartoonist and journalist.
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Netflix’s new collection, DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story presentations us Dahmer’s existence throughout the lens of his victims, aiming not to sensationalize the killer but to put an emphasis at the importance of treating mental sickness. “Derf” went to school with the real-life Dahmer and later wrote about it in his graphic novel, My Friend Dahmer, some other adaptation of Dahmer’s lifestyles.
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John “Derf” Backderf attended highschool with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
Derf hasn’t yet made an appearance in DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, however he performed a major function in telling Dahmer’s story after the fact. While the two of them had been fairly friendly in high school, Derf indubitably noticed some of Dahmer’s strange behavior. “There wasn’t a lot left of him by way of our senior yr,” Derf advised the Phoenix New Times.
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“I wouldn’t pin his destiny on what happened at house. Hell, plenty of children had oldsters who went via nasty divorces and none of them went directly to kill 17 people. What his folks' breakup equipped used to be quilt. They have been too wrapped up of their nuclear divorce to note what used to be taking place with Jeff. But the academics and school officers were no better. That nonetheless astounds me, as a result of he was once utterly out of keep an eye on and it was once so apparent to us kids.”
Derf even remembers Dahmer’s mom, Joyce, whose sporadic mental well being is continuously credited as the reason for Dahmer’s murderous spree. “I heard the rumors about her problems and knew she have been in a mental sanatorium,” he published.
“That stuff has been overblown, frankly. Yes, she had some issues with mental health, but she wasn’t just some crazed loon. I be mindful her as a pleasing woman. Joyce used to be demonized as the cause of Jeff’s madness, mostly by means of Lionel, her ex-husband... I think it’s ridiculous to pin blame solely on her.”
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Derf wrote the severely acclaimed ‘My Friend Dahmer,’ and is now a successful cartoonist and journalist.
Derf was once always serious about journalism and cartooning after graduating with a BA in journalism from Ohio State University (the similar college Dahmer attended for just a few months) when they both graduated from Revere High School. When Derf discovered his classmate used to be a infamous serial killer, he made up our minds to examine the story through his personal viewpoint in a graphic novel titled My Friend Dahmer.
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The novel is a end result of more than a few comic book tasks Derf started in 1994 shortly after Dahmer’s murder. When Derf first pitched it as a 100-page graphic novel, no one would pick out it up, however Derf’s initial 24-page 2002 comedian ebook was once nominated for an Eisner Award.
This ended in the eventual full-length graphic novel, which doesn’t simply display us Dahmer’s killing spree, however examines how friendship (or the lack thereof) can have been one of the crucial many components that resulted in Dahmer’s actions.
After My Friend Dahmer was adapted into a movie, Derf went on to write down and illustrate more graphic novels, Trashed and Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio. The latter won the 2021 Eisner Award for easiest reality-based work, the 2021 Ringo Award, and Derf’s 2nd Alex Award. In 2021, the Society of Illustrators in New York City even held an exhibition of unique artwork from Kent State.
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is now to be had to circulation on Netflix.
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