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 ...

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.

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

"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.

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.

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 ...

This year’s selection, “My Friend Dahmer,” is a graphic novel and memoir detailing the surreal span of illustrator/author Derf Backderf’s high school days in 1980s Ohio, when he was ...

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 ...

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 ...

In hindsight, these oddities were clues that revealed the man Dahmer would later become. The film was also very personal for the real-life John Backderf, who created the graphic novel of the same ...

A graphic novel retells the story of infamous murderer Jeffrey Dahmer from a decidedly discomforting perspective — a childhood friend’s. Derf Backderf is heading to BookCourt bookstore on April 26, to ...