Aperture’s Adam Goldworm, who previously tackled challenging graphic novel fare with 'My Friend Dahmer,' will produce. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Aperture Entertainment has optioned Upgrade ...

Several months earlier, Meyers had optioned the graphic novel My Friend Dahmer – a memoir by cartoonist Derf Backderf about his brief but intense high-school friendship with the man who would ...

Still, as Cleveland artist Derf articulates in his masterful new graphic novel, "My Friend Dahmer," no one ever really expects a classmate, however weird, to become a serial killer with a human ...

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.

Backderf hopes "Dahmer" ultimately opens the door to more graphic novels being introduced to wider audiences. "My fans will be very pleased with it," Backderf says. "Hopefully it helps get more ...

John Backderf's graphic novel "My Friend Dahmer" has been turned into a film starring Ross Lynch (center) as the serial killer in his younger years. Everett Collection Graphic novelist John ...

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.

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 ...

"My Friend Dahmer,'' the autobiographical graphic novel about serial killer, Jeffery Dahmer's childhood, is being developed for the big screen by Ibid Filmworks. Written by two-time Eisner award ...

Here are some of the most anticipated graphic novels and other illustrated narratives ... childhood for the hit graphic memoir “My Friend Dahmer.” “Derf” once again mixes history and ...

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 ...