Derf Backderf

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Derf Backderf

John Backderf (* 1959 in Richfield , Ohio ) is an American comic author who is known under the stage name Derf Backderf or Derf .

life and work

Backderf grew up in rural Ohio. He first attended Eastview Junior High School and from 1974 to 1978 the Revere Senior High School in Richfield. One of his school friends was the future serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer . Backderf drew cartoons for the school newspaper while he was at school, but said he did not attend a single art class. After graduating from high school, he studied journalism at Ohio State University and worked as a garbage collector for a while.

In the Cleveland Edition , he first published the comic strip The City , which later appeared in Plain Dealer and around 140 other US publications. Backderf worked for the Akron Beacon Journal in the 1990s . Chuck Klosterman was one of his colleagues there . In 2010 he published the graphic novel Punk Rock and Trailer Parks .

His memories of their school days with Dahmer processed backderf in the 2012 published graphic novel My Friend Dahmer , the German language translation My Friend Dahmer appeared a year later. The work was in 2017 with Ross Lynch in the title role filmed , backderf was from Alex Wolff played.

Backderf received the Eisner Award in 2016 for Trashed .

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • The City (comic strip, 1990-2014)
  • The City: The World's Most Grueling Comic Strip (Collection, 2003)
  • Punk Rock and Trailer Parks (2010)
  • My friend Dahmer (2013); Original title: My Friend Dahmer (2012)
  • True Stories Vol. 1 (2014)
  • Trashed (2015)
  • True Stories Vol. 2 (2016)

Film adaptations

Web links

Commons : Derf Backderf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Micheal Heaton: John 'Derf' Backderf's graphic novel about Jeffrey Dahmer moves from page to screen . Cleveland.com, October 29, 2017, accessed January 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Chris Arrant: This Opens Up About His High School Friend Jeffrey Dahmer in New Graphic Novel . In: Publishers Weekly . May 8, 2012, accessed January 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto . Scribner, New York 2004, ISBN 0-7432-3600-9 , pp. 197 .
  4. ↑ Chris Arrant: 2016 EISNER AWARD Winners (Full List) . Newsarama, July 23, 2016, accessed January 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Christian Endres: The way to hell . In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 20, 2013, accessed January 14, 2018 .
  6. ^ Alan Gardner: John Backderf wins the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award . In: The Daily Cartoonist. May 1, 2006, accessed January 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ 2012 Ignatz Awards , Internet Archive , accessed January 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Backderf, Derf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Backderf, John; Derf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Richfield , Ohio