JOHN DERF BACKDERF
Surefire way to
escape jury duty
Being Jeffrey Dahmer’s high school friend
has its benefits.
It gets John Derf Backderf excused when
he’s called and they find out. In 2010 and again in 2024.
Derf authored “My Friend Dahmer,” an international
best-seller. His comic strip “The City” appeared in alternative newspapers
(1990-2014).
He attended
Eastview Junior High and Revere High School,
where one of his classmates was future serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. He attended and dropped out of the Art
Institute of Pittsburgh.
He began as a
political cartoonist for the Ohio State Lantern, then
professionally at The Evening Times, the evening counterpart of The Palm Beach Post,
in West Palm Beach, Florida. He worked as a staff cartoonist at the Cleveland
Plain Dealer in the late 80s. In the mid-1990s Backderf was an
artist at the BJ.
In 2006 he won the Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Award for cartooning.
Derf, whose cartoons gain national
attention, lives in Cleveland, grew up in Richfield, began life in 1959.
Derf once gave gave
former BJ reporter Sheryl Harris a memorable Christmas present: the first issue
of Ms. Magazine!
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