The Hollywood Reporter has reported that local comic Derf Backderf, who turned to graphic novels after years of producing some of the region’s most distinctive newspaper art, will next year publish a ...

Local writer and artist Derf Backderf (aka John Backderf) was only 10 years old when the National Guard descended on Kent State in May of 1970 and killed four students after firing into a crowd of ...

The project will be based on the graphic novel by John "Derf" Backderf that follows Jeffrey Dahmer from age 12 to the day he kills his first victim. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Released earlier in ...

Derf Backderf’s new graphic novel, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, which will be published in April by Abrams ComicArts, is a meticulously researched, emotionally gripping account of the era-defining ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Following a four-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, Cleveland artist John “Derf” Backderf is preparing for the release of his latest graphic novel, “Kent State: Four Dead ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Award-winning local cartoonist and graphic novelist John Backderf is awaiting the opening of the movie "My Friend Dahmer," adapted from his graphic novel of the same name. (It opens ...

From Bleeding Cool's Marilyn Weiss: The graphic novel My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf was published 2012. It chronicles a short period of time during Backderf's high school years, during which he ...

Then a socially withdrawn, eventually hard-drinking student with a penchant for amateur taxidermy and pranks, Dahmer (as Backderf tells it) was already fighting dark urges and was largely left to his ...

“History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.” Whether or not Mark Twain said those words, their truth is made evident when reading Derf Backderf’s newest graphic novel Kent State in the fall of 2020.