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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This month’s issue of the Slate Book Review features illustrations (and a sweet logo) by Derf Backderf, the cartoonist behind the fascinating, discomfiting graphic novel My Friend Dahmer, out this ...

Then a socially withdrawn, eventually hard-drinking student with a penchant for amateur taxidermy and pranks, Dahmer (as Backderf tells it) was already fighting dark urges and was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