My Friend Dahmer
  • Published:
    Mar-2012 (Hardcover)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    224
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A national bestseller, Derf Backderf's Alex Award winner My Friend Dahmer is the bone-chilling graphic novel that inspired the major motion picture starring Ross Lynch as Jeffrey Dahmer.
 
You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer -- the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper -- seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. To Derf Backderf, “Jeff” was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides.
 
In My Friend Dahmer, a haunting and original graphic novel, writer-artist Backderf creates a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man struggling against the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche -- a shy kid, a teenage alcoholic, and a goofball who never quite fit in with his classmates. With profound insight, what emerges is a Jeffrey Dahmer that few ever really knew, and one readers will never forget.
 
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Trashed
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
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    • Mar-2012
    • Harry N. Abrams
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1419702173
    • ISBN13: 9781419702174
    • First Edition
    • Mar-2012
    • Harry N. Abrams
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1419702165
    • ISBN13: 9781419702167
    •  
    • Apr-2023
    • Harry N. Abrams
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 141976277X
    • ISBN13: 9781419762772
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    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Mar-2012
    • Harry N. Abrams
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1613123264
    • ISBN13: 9781613123263
    •  
    • Aug-2012
    • Abrams ComicArts
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Oct-2017
    • Abrams ComicArts
    • eBook (Kindle)



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