My Friend Dahmer


OVER the weekend, I devoured Derf Backderf’s My Friend Dahmer – almost quicker than I would have liked!  This intimate portrait of the young serial killer is at once sympathetic to his unfortunate circumstances and condemning of his actions.

TO be totally honest, I have been having dreams about high school for days since I finished it.  Backderf conjures up a world so rich and intimate that you almost feel as though you were right there in the Class of  ’78 with him.  He shows side-by-side the ordinary trivialities of teenage suffering and the ripening of a twisted mind.  The blocky, lumpy figures without distinction reminded me of the way that all the people and faces of my high school years blur into a mass of obscurity.

EVEN if serial killers and graphic novels aren’t your usual jam, My Friend Dahmer is gripping and engaging.  Fans of Ghost World or Jeffrey Brown must read!

One response to “My Friend Dahmer”

  1. Serial Killers are definitely my jam…saying it that way makes me sound a bit creepy haha. I've been eye-balling this for a while. I've never read a graphic novel before…but I've been wanting to read books on Dahmer for a while. It definitely looks interesting 🙂

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