It’s a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. It’s kind of unnerving when that work of literature is a graphic novel called My Friend Dahmer.
I should explain.
The guy who wrote and drew My Friend Dahmer, Derf Backderf, grew up in a small, rural town in Ohio called Bath in the 1970s. One of his high school classmates was Jeffrey Dahmer, who went on to kill 17 people. (According to Wikipedia, Bath has one other famous son: Lebron James. What are the odds?)
After Dahmer was arrested in 1991, Backderf began working on a comic about him, which he eventually self-published in 2002. It became a cult classic: fans include R. Crumb, Alison Bechdel, James Ellroy and Chuck Klosterman. It’s now being re-published in expanded form, and I’m here to tell you, it’s astounding. Read Here
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