TY - BOOK AU - Derf. TI - My friend Dahmer: a graphic novel SN - 9781419702167 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Abrams ComicArts KW - Derf KW - Dahmer, Jeffrey KW - Serial murderers KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - High schools KW - Ohio KW - Biographical comics KW - lcgft KW - Nonfiction comics KW - Graphic novels N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-220); Preface: The convoluted history of My friend Dahmer -- Prologue -- The strange boy -- A secret life -- The Dahmer fan club -- Becoming the monster -- Fade to black -- Epilogue -- The players N2 - We all have that one friend from school -- the strange kid, the class freak, the guy whose antics amused, entertained, and maybe even alarmed us. The one who sticks in our heads even with the passing of the years. That classmate is invariably left behind when we graduate, vanishing into memory, filed away with our old yearbooks and other teenage memento's. But every now and then we wonder, whatever happened to that friend? For one man who grew up in a small town in Ohio, that questions was by every media outlet in the world on July 22, 1991, when Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested for the murder of seventeen young men and teenage boys. My Friend Dahmer is a graphic novel from political cartoonist Derf Backderf in which he tries to make sense of the future serial killer with whom he shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides ER -