He curries favour with school mates by acting as if he has cerebral palsy, and by sixteen is accompanied to school by a bottle of spirits. The Dahmer introduced here aged thireen is already the class outcast, a target for school thugs and with a profoundly unhappy home life. This led to a self-published comic, vastly expanded for this book. Jeffrey Dahmer’s grisly secrets were revealed in 1991, thirteen years after his high school friendship with Backderf, and Backderf first published a story about Dahmer in 1997, three years after his murder in jail. However he chooses to be credited, it’s surely the case that Derf is the only cartoonist to have numbered a notorious serial killer among his classmates. John Backderf produces his cartoon strips as Derf, yet for his first outing from a major publisher he’s cover-credited as Derf Backderf.
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