My Friend Dahmer is framed in the years that Derf and Dahmer shared the halls of junior high and high school. Like Derf, Dahmer occupied a spot well-removed from the top rung of the social ladder.

'There was always a darkness about him': My Friend Dahmer author John Backderf on growing up with a serial killer The comic book artist known as Derf went to the same school as Jeffrey Dahmer. Now ...

My Friend Dahmer, based on the best-selling graphic novel by John Backderf, tells a story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's high school years and the kids who knew him, including Backderf.

Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the oddest of oddballs at Revere High School in the late 1970s, would go on to infamy. Still, as Cleveland artist Derf articulates in his masterful new graphic novel, "My ...

My Friend Dahmer takes something light, high school gossip, and transforms it into something lighter — then warns you not to take it so lightly.

In some ways, “My Friend Dahmer” is a typical coming-of-age movie about an awkward teen. What distinguishes this particular case of adolescent angst is that it’s the true story of serial ...

The guy who wrote and drew My Friend Dahmer, Derf Backderf, grew up in a small, rural town in Ohio called Bath in the 1970s. One of his high school classmates was Jeffrey Dahmer, who went on to ...

My Friend Dahmer (which is now playing at Webster Place) takes place in 1978, and the movie evokes a certain type of filmmaking that flourished in the U.S. around that time—an improbable mixture ...

"My Friend Dahmer" is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Shaker Heights author John "Derf" Backderf. Derf went to Revere High School in Richfield with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who ...

How a cartoonist, an indie filmmaker and two kids-show stars came together to make a poignant film about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's coming-of-age.