The story follows Dahmer from age 12 up to, but not including, his first murder, two weeks after high school graduation. He was a huge animal-lover and was horrified at Lloyd Figg's evil pastime of vehicular dogslaughter. Lloyd Figg, a crude, disruptive, kleptomaniacal student that Derf regards as the class psycho and someone even Jeff is offended by.

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Sanity Slippage: Not that he was a paragon of normalcy to begin with, but realizing that he is turned on by corpses triggers this for Jeff.

The revenge of the nerds means that victimised geeks will inherit the earth, from Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who emerged from their own unhappy schooldays to become creators of South Park and Team America: World Police.

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There was always a darkness about him': My Friend Dahmer author John Backderf on growing up with a serial killer".I was a teenager in 1991 and still remember the day we all gathered around the TV to watch the shocking news about Jeffrey Dahmer. The final 224-page incarnation was nominated for Ignatz, Harvey, and Reuben Awards, [10] received an Angoulême Award and was named by Time magazine as one of the top five non-fiction books of 2012. He is most famous for his graphic novels, especially My Friend Dahmer, the international bestseller which won an Angoulême Prize, and earlier for his comic strip The City, which appeared in a number of alternative newspapers from 1990 to 2014. That 2002 Eisner-nominated one-shot was a perverse twist on autobio comix — an exorcism of Derf's pent-up, creeped out memories about Dahmer's terrible, potentially fate-sealing formative years.

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it's sorta a memoir by this guy who knew and kinda bullied Jeffrey Dahmer when he was in High School. It tells of a sad, neglected, not-ever-quite-right kind of boy whose problems were ignored by his family, classmates, and teachers alike . Tragic Keepsake: Almost all of Derf's sketches from high school show cameos of Jeff as a humorous character. If the POV of Backderf's graphic novel is any indication he still has no self-awareness of his own behavior as a milquetoast douchebag after all these years--or if I'm being generous, is unable to translate that dimension onto pages that sorely need something to make them even a modicum more interesting.

I just think that Backderf hasn't shown so much growth, that he seems to constantly walk the line of blaming/not-"blaming"-just-"noting" how adults or maybe some loose definition of society have failed to provide support for Dahmer, while exculpating himself and his friends. I don't really even know much about Dahmer's murders or the case or anything surrounding it, being born in 1985 and not really interested in self-educating on the topic even once I was aware. To the contrary, he does not conceal the fact that he and his friends contributed to Dahmer's misery, and the author's shame is apparent. In 2012, Publishers Weekly named My Friend Dahmer in their list of the year's top five comics; [16] Lev Grossman, book critic for Time, named it one of his top five nonfiction books of the year; [7] and The A. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in.