# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derf
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:51:48.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derf"
name: "Derf"
slug: "derf"
description: "John Backderf, also known as Derf or Derf Backderf, is an American cartoonist. He is most famous for his 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 to 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."
tagline: "American cartoonist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derf_Backderf_(53601505135)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Designers"
  slug: "designers"
profileType:
  name: "Designer"
  slug: "designer"
birthDate: "1959-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.451377333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 232
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3994172/"
    handle:    "nm3994172"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.derfcity.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derf_Backderf"
    title: "Derf Backderf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derf_Backderf"
    title: "Derf Backderf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derf_Backderf"
    title: "Derf Backderf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derf_Backderf"
    title: "Derf Backderf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derf_Backderf"
    title: "Derf Backderf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derf_Backderf"
    title: "Derf Backderf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5262542"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1426111"
    title: "Derf Scratch"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump