DERF BACKDERF is the internationally bestselling, award-winning author of The Dissidents: Autocrats! Vigilantes! Communists! And Cartoonists! (Abrams ComicArts); My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel, Trashed, and Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio. He is a recipient of the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning. His weekly comic strip, The City, appeared in more than 150 newspapers for nearly 25 years. Backderf lives in Cleveland and is an alumnus of Ohio State University.
