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Of all the rave reviews that have piled up, here's the one that hits closest to home. Literally. Here's Cleveland blog queen Erin O'Brien and her take in The Richfield Times and Bath Country Journal ,...
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The House
I was at Dahmer's boyhood home last week.As mentioned in a previous post, the house is owned by a guy I know, well-known musician and songwriter Chris Butler. He currently rents it out to a buddy, who...
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Big Night in the Rubber City
I inadvertently left this rather demonic photo of Dahmer looming over the crowd during the Q&A. Thanks to everyone who turned out for my lone event in Akron, Ohio, at the Akron Main Library. It was...
View ArticleNew York City this week!
I'll be in the Big Apple later this week, for a big promotional and media blitz. So this will likely be my last post until I return, since I have to scramble to prepare.Thurs., April 26 I'll be signing...
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Kindle eBook available at last
Finally. Amazon has releasedthe Kindle ebook of My Friend Dahmer. About time, and who knows why Amazon moved at such a snail's pace. The Nook and iTunes eBooks were released a month ago. So take your...
View ArticleBook touring
Here's a video of a recent talk I gave at the Akron Main Library.This was a notable event for several reasons. First off, the small town where My Friend Dahmer is set, is a rural suburb of Akron. Bath,...
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The viral yearbook
This one went viral last week. A kid was leafing through his Dad's yearbooks and found a couple notes from Jeff Dahmer. He posted them online and it went viral.Yes, these are authentic, yes, these are...
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Jeff the football hero
I thought I had found all my high school drawings of Dahmer. But two weeks ago, while cleaning out my Mom's basement, I pulled a box from under the stairs, one that was buried beneath a pile of other...
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Weirdest fundraiser EVER
Last Sunday I went to a cookout at the Dahmer House.Yeah, yeah, insert Dahmer cannibalism joke here. That was the point, actually. The house has been owned for some time by musician Chris Butler. Great...
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Critical acclaim
The vast majority of reviews for My Friend Dahmer have been off-the-chart rave ones. I have never received this much coverage and acclaim for a book. And for that, I'm both pleased and grateful. But...
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Derf in Detroit & Chicago this week
Here's a radio interview with the NPR outlet in Detroit. HEREGreen Brain owner Dan Merritt, along with wife Katie, are well known figures in the comix world. I'll be appearing at the awesome Green...
View ArticleDerf on PBS
Here's a piece on the book by the Cleveland NPR outlet. This is a weekly show about Books and the Arts that runs on PBS-WVIZ. My bit is the lead piece. It starts off with the usual Q&A about what...
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Book tourin'
Sorry for the long layoff, friends. Sucking wind as the first leg of the MFD book tour winds down. Had a great talk and signing at Cleveland's Brooklyn Library last night. Thanks to all who packed the...
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NPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge interviewed your humble scribbler. Listen to the podcast HERE
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Another high school sketchbook drawing
Here's another recent find from my time as the self-proclaimed Minister of Propaganda of the Dahmer Fan Club back in high school (read the book for a full explanation of this). As I wrote in an earlier...
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Why not piss off another of my alma maters?
I'm probably persona non grata at my old high school, as you can well imagine. Especially with all the worldwide press this book has received. The names Dahmer and Revere High School are even more...
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Derf on NPR's 'To the Best of Our Knowledge'
Here's my interviewwith NPR's Steve Paulson. Good interview, although they cut out all the (I thought) interesting bits about process and how I put various scenes of the book together, in favor of the...
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Drawing 'My Friend Dahmer'
Thought you might be interested in a look at process. I've written before that this book took 20 years to produce. That's true, but a bit misleading. I didn't work on it continuously. I was doing other...
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Dahmer and Death Metal?
I'm often asked what kind of music Dahmer liked. I wrote about this on the Derfcity blog a while back, but since I just received a couple more queries, I think I'll re-post it here.The stereotype, of...
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Recreating the ' sinister Seventies adolescent world'
To shamelessly name drop here, Lev Grossman, the book critic for Time magazine, wrote that MY FRIEND DAHMER is "like Proust’s madeleine to anybody who was alive in the 1970′s." I freely admit my study...
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