TY - BOOK AU - Backderf,Derf TI - My friend Dahmer: a graphic novel SN - 9781419702167 AV - PN6727.D466 M9 2012 U1 - 741.5/973 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Abrams ComicArts KW - Backderf, Derf, KW - Dahmer, Jeffrey KW - Serial murderers KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - High schools KW - Ohio KW - Nonfiction comics KW - Biographies KW - fast KW - gnd KW - Psychologie KW - Jugend KW - Comic KW - Englisch KW - Biographical comic books, strips, etc KW - Graphic Novel KW - Staff pick KW - graphic novels KW - aat KW - Biographical comics KW - Comics (Graphic works) KW - Coming-of-age comics KW - Graphic novels KW - gsafd KW - lcgft KW - True crime comics KW - rvmgf KW - Romans graphiques KW - tgfbne 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; Accelerated Reader; Grades 9-12; 3.6; 1; Quiz 157427; English non-fiction 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 mementoes. 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 -