Derf BackDerf - The Kent State Killings
Jun 5, 2023

The Anti-war movement in the 1970s was one of the biggest or perceived as the biggest threat to the American society in generations.

Derf talks to Ed about his work and his current project, which is the killings of students during a anti-war protest in 1970, known as The Kent State Shootings.

The event and the cover up was one of the most obvious and blatant in your face operations, even for the US Government under Nixon.

The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre) resulted in the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard, on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a peace rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus. This incident marked the first time a student was killed in an anti-war gathering in United States history.

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.

His award winning book, Kent State is out now.

It was won EISNER AWARD, Best Non-fiction Book; ALEX AWARD, for YA literature, The American Library Association ; ACBD CRITICS AWARD, France ;RINGO AWARD, Best Non-fiction Book

Website : Derfcity

Book : Kent State