Derf

Quick Facts

Full Name	Derf
Occupation	Cartoonist
Date Of Birth	Oct 31, 1959(1959-10-31)
Age	65
Birthplace	Richfield
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Scorpio

Derf Biography

Derf is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on October 31, 1959 in Richfield, Ohio, United States.

Backderf graduated high school in 1978, and began attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. The following summer he worked as a garbageman back in his hometown. Backderf later transferred to, and graduated from, Ohio State University. Backderf was immersed in the punk movement during the late 1970s.

Backderf’s comic strip The City appeared in over 140 publications, mostly free weekly newspapers, starting with the now-defunct Cleveland Edition in 1990, including: The Village Voice, The Chicago Reader, Cleveland Scene, Miami New Times, Houston Press, Pittsburgh City Paper, The Providence Phoenix, and Washington City Paper. In 2014, Derf announced that he was discontinuing The City to focus on graphic novels.

Derf Net Worth

Derf is one of the richest Cartoonist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Derf 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

John Backderf (born October 31, 1959 in Richfield, Ohio) is an American cartoonist, also known as Derf or Derf Backderf. He is most famous for his graphic novels, especially My Friend Dahmer, the international bestseller which won an Angoulême Prize, and earlier for his comic strip The City, which appeared in a number of alternative newspapers from 1990–2014. In 2006 Derf won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartooning. Backderf has been based in Cleveland, Ohio, for much of his career.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Derf Dating?

According to our records, Derf married to Sheryl Harris. As of December 1, 2023, Derf’s is not dating anyone.

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My Friend Dahmer (Abrams Comic Arts, 2012) is the culmination of a comic book project first started in 1994, shortly after Jeffrey Dahmer was murdered in prison. Derf’s first Dahmer story appeared in Zero Zero #18 (Fantagraphics, July 1997). Derf then pitched the project as a 100-page graphic novel, but failed to find a publisher. He then self-published a scaled-back 24-page My Friend Dahmer comic book in 2002. The original self-published comic book was nominated for an Eisner Award and was adapted and staged as a one-act play by the NYU Theater Dept. The final 224-page incarnation was nominated for Ignatz, Harvey, and Reuben Awards, received an Angoulême Award and was named by Time magazine as one of the top five non-fiction books of 2012. Lev Grossman, book critic of Time magazine, named My Friend Dahmer as one of the “top five non- fiction books of the year.” A film adaptation of My Friend Dahmer, starring Ross Lynch as Dahmer, Alex Wolff as Backderf, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts and Vincent Kartheiser, premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and received a general theatrical release in the fall of 2017. The film received generally positive reviews.

Facts & Trivia

Emmy Ranked on the list of most popular Cartoonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Derf celebrates birthday on October 31 of every year.

Strips from The City were collected in The City: The World’s Most Grueling Comic Strip (SLG Publishing, 2003) and a four-volume series of comic books, True Stories (Alternative Comics, 2015, 2016, 2018).