Twenty years after high school graduation, if anyone has become famous or infamous, odds are it isn't the star quarterback. So maybe it was almost predictable that Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the oddest of ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Derf Backderf has spent much of his career looking backward to tell stories that still have something to say about the present. His latest graphic novel, “The Dissidents: ...

After 47 years of business, Derf’s Café on the corner of De la Vina and Mission streets in Santa Barbara is permanently closing its doors to customers this week. Founder Tim Derflinger opened the café ...

Today, Derf Backderf begins appearing weekly in the PDQ section. The world of his strip, "The City," is populated by ordinary street people -- the strange, the lost and doomed -- and characters of ...

To the world at large, people remember Jeffrey Dahmer for one thing: killing 17 men and boys, making him the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper. But for good or bad, there’s more to a ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Derf Backderf's new graphic novel, *The Dissidents*, transports readers to mid-1910s America ...

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On July 22, 1991, 32-year-old Tracy Edwards, wearing a pair of handcuffs, flagged down two policemen in Milwaukee. He told them he had been imprisoned for hours by a man who had told him he was going ...

Derf Reklaw was a multi-faceted, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, vocalist, dancer, playwright, poet and inventor. Derf was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and is considered one of the ...