Biographie de Derf Backderf
Derf BACKDERF was born in 1959 and grew up in the small town of Richfield, Ohio. Following the events in this book and a brief stint at art school, he returned to his hometown and worked on the back of a garbage truck, an experience that was the basis for his first graphic novel, Trashed. He eventually received a scholarship to Ohio State University, where he drew political cartoons for the school paper, the Lantern.
Backderf has been nominated for two Eisner Awards and has received a host of journalism honors, including the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning in 2006. The Derf Collection, comprising twenty-five years of original art and papers, was established at the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in 2009. Backderf lives in Cleveland with his wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and columnist Sheryl Harris, and their two children.
His mother still lives in the house he grew up in, five miles from Dahmer's house.