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Creators | Cartoonist Derf is recovering from quintuple-bypass surgery, an operation made necessary by radiation treatments for cancer.
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For the star Gamma Delphini, he assigned the name "Derf," which is "Fred" spelled backwards.
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My specific question was this: If we concede that Dahmer was destined to commit these crimes regardless of where he grew up, would Derf have preferred that Jeffrey been raised in someplace like Cincinnati or Dayton, thereby making him someone he never knew?
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010
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I had been working at the Akron Beacon Journal for less than a month when someone told me that Derf grew up with Dahmer, which was weird for two reasons.
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010
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“Derf” is John Backderf, a comic book artist I worked with at a newspaper in Akron, Ohio.
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010
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The title is technically misleading, as Dahmer appears to have had no real friends whatsoever in high school—but Derf and his geeky cronies were probably the closest approximation.
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010
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However, what was even stranger is that I had never even met this Derf character; some coworker just felt compelled to tell me there was a person on staff who went to high school with J.
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010
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“Believe it or not, I consider Dahmer something of a tragic figure,” Derf once told me while munching on a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios.
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010
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The guy was a parasite, Derf tells me, his mouth still half-filled with Cheerios.
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010
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And he finally made that transition one month after he, Derf, and two hundred other kids graduated from Revere.
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010
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