Ross Lynch portrays the teenage Jeffrey Dahmer, before his notoriety as a serial killer, in 'My Friend Dahmer,' an adaptation of a graphic novel that ... can sound like a cry of pain.

"My Friend Dahmer," the film based on Cleveland artist John 'Derf' Backderf's best-selling graphic novel about the notorious serial killer, has begun shooting at locations around Northeast Ohio.

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 ...

local cartoonist John "Derf" Backderf took to publishing graphic novels a few years back. In My Friend Dahmer, he chronicles his childhood friendship with soon-to-be serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

In some ways, “My Friend Dahmer” is a typical coming-of-age ... In the epilogue to his graphic novel, Backderf explained that, in 1991, when his wife called to tell him that a former classmate ...

The movie is based on a best-selling graphic novel by one of Dahmer’s childhood friends. Lynch is best known for his roles in the Disney Channel’s Austin and Ally series and in the Teen Beach ...

Jeffrey Dahmer. John Backderf goes just by the name Derf for his comic strip The City, now in the Plain Dealer. Earlier he had tried his hand at longer format graphic novels with "Trashed" about ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - "My Friend Dahmer," the film based on the best-selling graphic novel by Cleveland artist John "Derf" Backderf, hits the silver screen this fall. But you can get a sneak peek ...

Dark subject matter in graphic novels is nothing new – but a memoir about a childhood with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is up there with the darkest of them. My Friend Dahmer (Abrams ...

Released earlier this year from Abrams’ ComicArts imprint, the graphic novel My Friend Dahmer covers Derf’s teenage years in relation to his friendship with Dahmer. From their first meeting in ...

Yet graphic novelists ... Backderf (“My Friend Dahmer”). 4. LGBTQ representation keeps growing. Trung Le Nguyen delivered a sparkling debut with his graphic novel “The Magic Fish,” about ...