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 ...

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 ...

The final panel in John “Derf” Backderf’s chilling graphic memoir, My Friend Dahmer, is a haunting portrait of the author after getting a call from his wife, a reporter in Akron, Ohio, that his high ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local cartoonist Derf Backderf published the final installment of “The City” today. Have a bittersweet look-see. Here’s the rationale in his own words: I’m ending the strip So I can concentrate ...

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 ...