My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel

I read this book during my sophomore year of high school. I was into criminals and death scenes. Jeffrey Dahmer was very different and no one understood him, but what he did was pretty awful. I feel bad for those families that lost their loved one. But thank God that he found Christ in jail.

This is an interesting illustration of not just the making of a monster, but the stripping away of that monsters human identity, the harder he tries to cling to it, the more he dehumanizes everything around him most of all himself. The alcohol, the antics, the odd eccentric behaviors, all of it, coping mechanisms to keep what lurked in the dark away from the surface. brilliantly done.

The book is really well done all around. The illustrations are fresh, and the narrative gives really good insight. It does a great job of not pointing the finger, but almost leaving you somewhat sympathetic for Jeff. I realize that his crimes are inexcusable, however, this book shows the downward spiral that he lived that led him to doing what he did.