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It was a very different time, part 3
Keeping with our theme of how different the Seventies was, and how that ties into this tale, and Dahmer's descent into madness, here's the best example of that. Despite being in a constant drunken...
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Interesting podcast discussion of My Friend Dahmer
A trio of reviewers debates the merits of MFD inthis literarydisco.com podcast.They're not comix fans, and don't appear to have read many comix at all up until now, but were moved for reasons that...
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My Friend Dahmer nominated for a Harvey Award
The Harveys are one of the big comix industry awards. Unfortunately, My Friend Dahmer is in the Best Graphic Novel category with Chris Ware's magnum opus Building Stories.... so congrats to Chris for...
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Lost in Translation
Just got an interesting email from the translator working on MI AMIGO DAHMER, the Spanish version due in early 2014. Dear Mr. BackderfI'm in the process of translating "My Friend Dahmer" for the...
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Welcome to my world, bro.
Here's an interesting item. This blogger– age unknown, but I'm guessing quite a bit younger than me– writes about his experience reading MFD for BroCouncil.com. It was especially unnerving for him, you...
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Jeff's boyhood home for sale
You've probably read this elsewhere, since tv news types and bloggers love to do this story, but Dahmer's boyhood home in Ohio, the setting for a good deal of My Friend Dahmer, is for sale.The owner...
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Joyce Dahmer and the UFO
This is a bizarre incident– even by Dahmer standards!– that I would have included in the book, but I was unable to pin down the details. It happened some time in the early 1970s. I'm not sure of the...
View ArticleGetting the classrooms right
It's not easy creating a period piece. I wrote earlier about the research that went into the Command Performance scene in the Summit Mall.Classrooms are tough to draw. There's a lot of furniture, crap...
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Rave review of Mein Freund Dahmer...
... in the Comicreview Deutschland podcast!Hey, I speak German , so it's a thrill.HERE
View ArticleMy Friend Dahmer and... Celine Dion?
The boys at the hilarious 90 Percent Hits podcast give a shout out to MFD.90 Percent Hits is devoted to the worst earworms from the most vile popstars of our age: Bryan Adams, Sting, Celine, etc. It's...
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Mon Ami Dahmer
This just in. Mon Ami Dahmer, the French translation of my book, which has been both a critical and commercial hit in France and Belgium, has been nominated for the graphic novel prize at the...
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More artwork from the Dahmer Fan Club
As I've written before, I spent much of high school hunched over a drawing board or sketchpad. Here I am (above) elbow deep in another drawing. Nice shirt. Right off the Horrific Polyester Seventies...
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The Clubhouse
My Friend Dahmer opens with a very powerful, and unsettling, scene in Dahmer's clubhouse in the woods. This particular episode was recounted many times in the media. The clubhouse, which Jeff always...
View ArticleFaux My Friend Dahmer film trailer
Group of college kids with too much time on their hands (midterms over, fellas?) made a faux movie trailer for MFD.
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Vote for My Friend Dahmer….. in France!
My Friend Dahmer…. or, rather, Mon Ami Dahmer… is up for another book prize in France. You can vote for it in the Priz de la BD FNAC.Just select the "Je Vote" button underneath the cover. At the bottom...
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Another honor from Europe!
Above: your favorite comix scribbler from the first MFD European book tour.Even more great news. My Friend Dahmer has been picked as a Sélection Officielle for the upcoming Angouleme 2014 comix...
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Fan photos
Selfies with books. Fans have sent me dozens of these, posing with a new copy of MFD. Yeah, it's a little odd, but very flattering and fun, when put together in a gallery like, well, this one.
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The Media Frenzy: Another View
Here's an interesting piece I only recently stumbled across, by media critic Jim Romenesko. It's a first-person account of what Dahmer's trial was like. Brings back a lot of memories from that time...
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Dahmer and death metal
I recounted this particular tale some months back in my blog at Derfcity.com, my main website, but it's bizarre enough that I'll post it here as well, for those who missed it.Dahmer has been adopted as...
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