Most Popular Books by Derf Backderf

“A well-told, powerful story. Backderf is quite skilled in using comics to tell this tale of a truly weird and sinister 1970s adolescent world.â€? —R. Crumb NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a BEST OF 2012 by Time, The Village Voice, A.V. Club, comiXology, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, MTV Geek, and more! “ASTOUNDING.â€? —Lev Grossman, Time 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, Dahmer 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 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 readers will never forget. This new paperback edition will coincide with the release of the movie adaptation of My Friend Dahmer and will include additional bonus content from the author archives.

Every week we pile our garbage on the curb and it disappears—like magic! The reality is anything but, of course. Trashed, Derf Backderf’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller My Friend Dahmer, is an ode to the crap job of all crap jobs—garbage collector. Anyone who has ever been trapped in a soul-sucking gig will relate to this tale. Trashed follows the raucous escapades of three 20-something friends as they clean the streets of pile after pile of stinking garbage, while battling annoying small-town bureaucrats, bizarre townfolk, sweltering summer heat, and frigid winter storms. Trashed is fiction, but is inspired by Derf’s own experiences as a garbageu00adman. Interspersed are nonfiction pages that detail what our garbage is and where it goes. The answers will stun you. Hop on the garbage truck named Betty and ride along with Derf on a journey into the vast, secret world of garbage. Trashed is a hilarious, stomach-churning tale that will leave you laughing and wincing in disbelief.

From Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex Award-winning tragic and unforgettable story of the Kent State shootings, told in graphic novel form. Named a “Best Book of the Year” by New York Times, Forbes, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and NPR! Derf Backderf takes us back to the age of the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon, Woodstock, and the Cold War and explores, in words and images, a scene of tragedy: the campus of Kent State University, where National Guard Troops attacked unarmed protestors and killed four students (Allison Beth Krause, age 19, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, age 20, Sandra Lee Scheuer, age 20, and William Knox Schroeder, age 19). On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, four students were killed and nine shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children—a shocking event burned into our national memory. The fatal shootings triggered immediate and massive outrage on campuses around the country. More than four million students participated in organized walkouts at hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools, the largest student strike in the history of the United States at that time. It was a day that shocked the nation and helped turn the tide of public opinion against America’s war in Vietnam. A few days prior, 10-year-old Derf Backderf saw those same guardsmen patrolling his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor to crush a trucker strike. Using the journalism skills he employed on My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, Backderf has conducted extensive interviews and research to explore the lives of these four young people and the events of those four days in May, when the country seemed on the brink of tearing apart. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio is a moving and troubling story about the bitter price of dissent—as relevant today as it was in 1970.

My Friend Dahmer author Derf Backderf offers his third volume of True Stories, culled from his long-running alt-weekly comic strip, The City. This volume features stories from 1996 to 2001. Derf takes us back to the halcyon days of the 1990s with hilarious, sometimes troubling, always timeless stories fished from the crankcase oil that coalesces in the bottom of the American psyche.

Eisner Award-winning My Friend Dahmer author Derf Backderf returns with his final volume of True Stories, culled from his long-running alt comic strip, The City. Volume Four features weird and hilarious stories from 1990 to 1995, when Gen X was flying the flannel and cell phones were as big as bricks.

Derf creator of the graphic novels Trashed, Punk Rock & Trailer Parks and the international bestseller, My Friend Dahmer presents the best of his True Stories from the long running The City comic strip, as seen in Best American Comics. These timeless tales of urban oddness will surprise and amuse, and make for many WTF moments. It''s like Humans of New York, but somewhat stranger. Pressure... Pressure...

Le mythique Métal Hurlant est de retour avec une nouvelle formule, alternant les numéros originaux avec les numéros vintage

An updated and expanded edition of the bestselling and award-winning graphic novel My Friend Dahmer, featuring 48 additional pages of all-new content including rare photographs and illustrations to commemorate the book''s tenth anniversary My Friend Dahmer, the award-winning, critically acclaimed graphic novel, is now updated and expanded with 48 pages of additional content. As notorious as Jeffery Dahmer may be, you only think you know his story. In 1991, 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, Dahmer was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides. In My Friend Dahmer, the haunting and award-winning graphic novel, writer-artist 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 readers will never forget.

Derf Backderf a passé son enfance à Richfield, petite ville de l''Ohio située non loin de Cleveland. Au début des années 1970, il entre au collège, où il fait la connaissance de Jeffrey Dahmer, un enfant solitaire au comportement un peu étrange. Les deux ados se lient d''amitié et font leur scolarité ensemble jusqu''à la fin du lycée. Jeffrey Dahmer deviendra par la suite l''un des pires serial killers de l''histoire des Etats-Unis. Arrêté en 1991, puis condamné à neuf cent cinquante-sept ans de prison pour une série de dix-sept meurtres, Dahmer, surnommé "le cannibale de Milwaukee", finira assassiné dans sa cellule en 1994. Mon ami Dahmer est le récit de la jeunesse de ce tueur.

Richford, banlieue d''Akron, Ohio, début des années 1980. Otto Pizcok est en terminale et vit dans le parc de mobile homes de son grand-oncle. Grand gaillard aux manières d''une autre époque, il se fait appeler le "Baron". Et tant pis si cela suscite brimades et regards méprisants : il n''a que faire des sportifs et pom-pom girls de son lycée - sauf peut-être Terry Workman, que la nature a particulièrement gâtée. En compagnie de deux camarades, il se met à fréquenter The Bank, une salle de concert d''Akron qui, par miracle, fait alors jouer les pionniers du mouvement punk rock. Otto va trouver là une formidable échappatoire au quotidien étriqué de cette région industrielle sur le déclin. S''attirant, grâce à son aplomb et à son bagout, la sympathie des tenanciers du lieu, il va enfin pouvoir vivre des expériences à la mesure du "Baron"... A la fois récit d''apprentissage et portrait d''une scène musicale, Punk Rock et mobile homes fourmille d''épisodes désopilants, au cours desquels on croisera, entre autres, Joey Ramone, Joe Strummer et Lester Bangs. Derf Backderf, par cette fiction inspirée de faits réels et de sa propre jeunesse, livre une évocation hilarante et émouvante des dernières années de l''adolescence.

This ashcan is a preview of an upcoming graphic novel about Starlight Drive-In, which represents them all. It could be in Ohio, upstate New York, or corn-fed Kansas. It doesn''t matter. The stories are the same.