Derf Backderf

@derfbackderf.bsky.social

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Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.

Which Renfield are you today? Showing various stages of crazy, as portrayed by Dwight Frye in DRACULA (1931).
Cornelia Barns cartoon, from 1917, titled "Requiem." A dead soldier on the Western front. A bird perches over him, singing.
Trump as a toiler mouth, yelling shit.
Vintage photo. Mom and kid wearing gas masks.
L-R: Jack Katz, Wendy and Richard Pini, Dave Sim, and Mike Grell. From 1982.
Demented Reagan "watches" the Iran-Contra hearings.
Early Derf political cartoon for the Ohio State Lantern in 1982. I was 21. All the cartoons from my 3 years on the paper are terrible, but man I had a blast making them.
The US Snail. Oliphant pioneered that term for the USPS.
Reagan passing out the poison Koolaid of Reaganomics ala murderous cult leader Jim Jones.
Me in an AMC Pacer in the Skyway parking lot at sunset.
Skyway at sunset.
Scene from Punk Rock & Trailer Parks. The Ramones tour bus at Sky-way Drive-in in Akron. Joey and Otto eat burgers.
Louise Lassar as Mary Hartman on the cover of rolling STone in 1976
Starlin print. Hairy sword and sorcery dude glowers in a chair with a beverage while a comely woman perches on the arm.
Herman Munster
My nlack dog and his toys
Emma Goldman is at her desk when a dozen federal agents burst in to arrest her. In 1917. From my new GN, The Dissidents. Out Sept. 15.