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American Cartoonist
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John Backderf is an American cartoonist known by the pseudonyms Derf and Derf Backderf. Derf is most famous for his recent graphic novels, especially "My Friend Dahmer", the international bestseller which won an Angoulême Prize, and earlier for his comic strip "The City", which appeared in a number of alternative newspapers from 1990–2014.

In 2006 Derf won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartooning. Backderf has been based in Cleveland, Ohio, for much of his career.

Backderf has won over 50 awards for his newspaper work, including a prestigious Bronze Medal from the Society of Newspaper Design. He was a member of the newsroom team for the Akron Beacon Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995. In 2006 Derf won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartooning. He received the Prix Révélation at the 2014 Angoulême International Comics Festival in France. In 2016, he won an Eisner Award for lettering for Trashed.

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