'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.

Twenty years after high-school graduation, if anyone has become famous or infamous, odds are it isn’t the star quarterback. So maybe it was almost predictable that Jeffrey Dahmer — one of the ...

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 ...

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 is at its most provocative when it considers this dynamic between the exploiters and the exploited. In making Dahmer feel like a freak, ... he remains a closed book.

My Friend Dahmer takes something light, high school gossip, and transforms it into something lighter — then warns you not to take it so lightly. Watch Next Advertisement - Continue Reading Below ...

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.

Books Portrait of the Monster as a Young Man This month’s cartoonist Derf Backderf and his fascinating new graphic novel, My Friend Dahmer.

Ross Lynch as Jeffrey Dahmer in a scene from Marc Meyers’ “My Friend Dahmer.” | FilmRise Share Even serial killers were children once, and it must be a trip to realize later on that you grew ...

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 killer ...