My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel

ISBN: 1419702173

Author: Backderf, Derf

Condition: New

A national bestseller, Derf Backderfs Alex Award winner My Friend Dahmer is the bone-chilling graphic novel that inspired the major motion picture.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, Jeff was a 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 Derf Backderf creates a portrait of a disturbed young man struggling with the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche.With profound insight, what emerges is a Jeffrey Dahmer that few ever really knew, and one readers will never forget.Also available by Derf Backderf:TrashedKent State: Four Dead in Ohio