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In 1992, while still in college, Fisher founded the publisher, Boneyard Press, in Champaign, Illinois. Fisher credits another artist, Mark Beachum, as his inspiration to create his own company. [3] Written (and illustrated) by a classmate of one of America's most notorious serial killers, Jeffrey Dahmer, My Friend Dahmer depicts the teenage years of Dahmer's life and his slow downward spiral into murder. I had normal friendships in high school... and really never had any close friendships after high school. - Jeffrey Dahmer But what would have changed the way things turned out for Jeffery Dahmer and his 17 victims? We'll never know. I can't help thinkingJeffrey Dahmer killed his first victim, a hitchhiker, shortly after finishing high school He would later kill 16 more people before his conviction. He was murdered in prison in 1994. Hart D. Fisher Interview". Comic Monsters. July 29, 2008 . Retrieved February 6, 2013. [ dead link] From Nobody to Nightmare: The book explores the early process for Jeff, as well as how every adult who could have taken him off that path didn't. The story itself led me to that conclusion,” he says. “It just seems to me that at every crucial point on his march to the edge of the abyss, it was an adult’s failure that propelled him along the way, or at least didn't slow him. I'm not saying this was anything purposeful, obviously not, but as you read this book, at points you just want to scream aloud that someone didn't intercede.”

Adaptation Name Change: A number of supporting characters' names are not what they were in Real Life, presumably for legal reasons. Lloyd Figg was not really "Lloyd Figg", while "Neil" and "Kent" were likely also pseudonyms (only John/Derf and Mike go by their real names). Cindy Zlatka (the suicide discussed in the fishing scene) likely didn't go by that name. Cavna, Michael (July 15, 2013). "2013 HARVEY AWARD NOMS: Chris Ware, 'Saga' among top nominees". The Washington Post. Washington DC: Nash Holdings LLC . Retrieved October 19, 2018. The book covers Dahmer and Derf’s last years of high school in bucolic Bath, Ohio, one of the safest neighborhoods in the state. And by the end of the summer following their senior year, both have discovered their passion — Derf has become a fledgling artist, Dahmer a practicing psychopath and murderer. Drawn in high-def contrast, with his slightly-grotesque portrayal of the human form, this book serves as the universal countering force of Dahmer’s own dark obsession. The art’s creation only made possible as a result of the acts it chronicles and the effect it had on the artist.After Derf's standup routine as Hitler, he goes to get some water and runs into Dahmer, having a brief chat with him. Derf makes a note that yes, he did indeed have a conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer while dressed as Adolf Hitler and that in hindsight it's one of the most surreal moments of his life. Yorio, Kara. "As Banned Books Week Approaches, the Fight Against Censorship Intensifies". School Library Journal . Retrieved 2022-08-05. When recounting an incident where a kid fell and landed on his shoulder near Jeff, Derf notes that the latter was very much this. Jeff's response was to laugh at the kid's pain, rather than help him up or at least express concern, showing that he was always an unpleasant person at best even before he became a Serial Killer. In 2003–2004, Fisher worked with a fellow horror writer/publisher, Joseph M. Monks, on a number of projects, including the books Road Kills ( Chanting Monks Press, 2003) and Sex Crimes (co-published by Boneyard Press & Chanting Monks, 2003). Fisher directed the straight-to-video horror film, Flowers on the Razorwire: Chance Meeting (Crime Pays, 2004), [13] which was written by Monks. So when I produced, at long last, the final incarnation of the book, I sent out the completed first draft. It was essentially done,” Derf points out. “Because I knew, once someone started to read it, they would get swept up in the story. And that, in fact, is exactly what happened. First with my agent, Matthew Carnicelli, and then with my editor at Abrams, Charlie Kochman. He didn't even want to read it, but Matthew convinced him. And once he did, that was it, he wanted it.”