![]() “It took 20 years to make the book, five more years to make the film,” said Backderf at the Ohio premiere of My Friend Dahmer in September at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. It was published in 2012 to great acclaim. ![]() ![]() In addition to canvassing former classmates and teachers, Backderf studied FBI files, transcripts of interviews with Dahmer and news reports. It is a genuine, sober account of a teenager devolving into disturbing behavior. The book does not wallow in the sensational or the speculative. ![]() The graphic novel My Friend Dahmer was written by Derf Backderf, a former Beacon Journal artist who grew up in Richfield and was a classmate of Dahmer’s at Revere High School in the 1970s.
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