My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel Memoir: Derf Backderf in conversation with Charlie Kochman, executive editor, Abrams ComicArts
Saturday, Nov. 17, 1:00 p.m., Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Derf Backderf
To the public, Jeffrey Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. To Derf Backderf, author of the graphic memoir My Friend Dahmer (Abrams ComicArts, $17.95), he was “Jeff,” a high school friend with whom he shared classrooms, hallways and car rides. Using a combination of his own memories and journals, conversations with old friends, and Dahmer’s interviews and transcripts, writer-artist Backderf unveils a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man. Backderf has been nominated for two Eisner Awards and received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning. His weekly comic strip, The City, has appeared in more than 100 newspapers over the past 22 years.
Charles Kochman
Charles Kochman is a Senior Editor at Harry N. Abrams, Inc., where he was the editor of two #1 New York Times bestsellers Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, as well as R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country and Kirby: King of Comics. Prior to joining Abrams, Kochman was Editor, Licensed Publishing at DC Comics and MAD Magazine for twelve years.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
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