My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel (Graphic Biographies)

Great book. Delivered on time, packaged well.

Love love love this graphic novel, art is amazing! I bought the hardback version and my book came with a plain cover front and back... Which was sad since i was looking forward to the front cover shown in the pictures... Some pages also have a strange effect were some of the art looks like its been printed incorrectly which can make it difficult to read at a first glance.But I honestly have no complaints and would advice giving it a read :D

This book was fun to read! And true to my knowledge too. Would highly recommend

The but is that that the title perhaps should be the far less grabbing 'I went to school with Dahmer'. While Backderf says he was friends with Dahmer a few times in the appendix the comic memoir suggest he was more a mate; someone he hung around with... for a while. Both in the novel and the appendix there are references to parties that Dahmer was not invited too and yet Backderf's friends were. If he was really Dahmer's friend then there should be more in the book featuring him and Dahmer together - yet many scenes have others and some are just reportage on Dahmer's home life and descent into insanity. In the appendix Backderf sinks into sanctimonious hypocrisy: he says that dahmer was insane and yet suggests he should have killed himself rather than giving in to his urges. He carries on in this vein and yet he wrote this book which will make him more money and get more attention than anything else he has done: he will be 'the guy that wrote the book about being dahmer's friend' not 'the guy who wrote about being a garbageman' or 'the guy who does that strip "the city"'.

This was a quality book. The artwork is really good and the storyline is good. I meant to read this over a couple of days and ended up reading it all in one night it's very addictive.

Touches on several periods of Jeffrey Dahmer's early young years (mostly adolescent), and charaterises how his life was via graphic images with information from different sources (police and CIA, FBI interviews, local citizens, acquaintances, school teachers and family members). Well-written and thought-provoking book. Suitable for individuals with a passion for psychology of crime or similar.-- As it is illustrated through graphic images, it can give readers a more insightful perspective on Jeffrey Dahmer's early years happenings.

An unflinching insight into one of the most depraved minds of anybody's time, Backderf provides a unique perspective on the late Jeffrey Dahmer's formative years. While we may feel pity for this outcast-among-outcasts, the crimes he would go on to commit (hopefully) stops any empathy on the reader's part dead in its tracks.Backderf's awkwardly lanky figures add even more surrealness to the tale- his dramatised Dahmer is even out of place amongst what author David Small described as 'organic robots'. For those wanting a decidedly different coming-of-age tale, this may be the book for you....The only failings are with the physical book itself- the rather annoying accolade stickers (Angoulême Award winner; adapted as a motion picture) stuck down as an afterthought on the front cover. Stickers are bad enough on a back cover, let alone the front!

This book is amazing!It was so good, I read the whole thing the first night I got it!