Derf Backderf
@derfbackderf.bsky.social
Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.
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Art of Derf Backderf is a new comic book length publication from Banzai Editions in France. An underground legend turned bestseller, Derf Backderf has written such essential works as Kent State, Punk ...
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Good news! You can now mailorder the import Best of Derf in the US. Fun magazine-size collection with early work, some rarities, and the favorites. In French and English. Comes with a 18x24 poster, previously unpublished, that is worth the $16 alone.
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What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? The only correct answer is:
January 8, 2026 at 12:39 PM
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? The only correct answer is:
Marvelous! Just the thing to lift my spirits in an awful awful week. But then I go to buy it online and... "No shipping to the US" because of Generalisimo Piggy's tariffs. And so we're back where we started.
January 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Marvelous! Just the thing to lift my spirits in an awful awful week. But then I go to buy it online and... "No shipping to the US" because of Generalisimo Piggy's tariffs. And so we're back where we started.
The ICE Agent who executed a Minneapolis resident in cold blood, scampering away after the shooting. President Piggy insists he was "run over" and is in the hospital. Pretty spry for a guy who was "run over."
According to witnesses, this is the masked ICE agent who shot the driver in Minneapolis. He shot from the side into the vehicle.
This is him walking away from the crashed vehicle.
This is him walking away from the crashed vehicle.
January 8, 2026 at 1:06 AM
The ICE Agent who executed a Minneapolis resident in cold blood, scampering away after the shooting. President Piggy insists he was "run over" and is in the hospital. Pretty spry for a guy who was "run over."
The Block Family, a loathsome billionaire clan of Trumpers, is shutting down the daily Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the alt-weekly Pittsburgh City Paper, as revenge for losing a court case against the papers' unions, including newsroom personnel.
The Post-Gazette has been publishing since 1786.
The Post-Gazette has been publishing since 1786.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette plans to shut down
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down.
www.cbsnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The Block Family, a loathsome billionaire clan of Trumpers, is shutting down the daily Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the alt-weekly Pittsburgh City Paper, as revenge for losing a court case against the papers' unions, including newsroom personnel.
The Post-Gazette has been publishing since 1786.
The Post-Gazette has been publishing since 1786.
I can honestly state this is fuckloads worse than I feared it would be.
January 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I can honestly state this is fuckloads worse than I feared it would be.
Happy birthday to the one and only Charles Addams.
January 7, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Happy birthday to the one and only Charles Addams.
Treated myself to THE BIG SLEEP last night. I haven't watched it in years and years and had forgotten many of the plot twists. Man, what a great film.
The only time Bogey played Marlowe. Seems like he played him a dozen times, but nope. Just a perfect film.
The only time Bogey played Marlowe. Seems like he played him a dozen times, but nope. Just a perfect film.
January 7, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Treated myself to THE BIG SLEEP last night. I haven't watched it in years and years and had forgotten many of the plot twists. Man, what a great film.
The only time Bogey played Marlowe. Seems like he played him a dozen times, but nope. Just a perfect film.
The only time Bogey played Marlowe. Seems like he played him a dozen times, but nope. Just a perfect film.
Gary Panter, record store, circa 1985.
January 7, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Gary Panter, record store, circa 1985.
I'm a cancer survivor. I don't wish this fate on anyone. Even a horrible person like Adams.
‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams doesn’t expect to live much longer
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams revealed on Thursday that his health is worsening and that the chances of him recovering from advanced prostate cancer are “essentially zero.”
www.chicagotribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:23 AM
I'm a cancer survivor. I don't wish this fate on anyone. Even a horrible person like Adams.
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In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
January 6, 2026 at 4:54 PM
In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
Thread.
Lots of comics folks posting their own accounts of the deadline & workload challenges of making a GN or kids book.
Here's mine. (1)
Lots of comics folks posting their own accounts of the deadline & workload challenges of making a GN or kids book.
Here's mine. (1)
I know some editors give their artists the time they need but I feel like I've been hazed most of my career. I illustrated my first picture book in a month. My second one in four months. When I said my dad is dying and I need more time they gave me three additional weeks.
January 6, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Thread.
Lots of comics folks posting their own accounts of the deadline & workload challenges of making a GN or kids book.
Here's mine. (1)
Lots of comics folks posting their own accounts of the deadline & workload challenges of making a GN or kids book.
Here's mine. (1)
It's Twelfth Night. The day we take down our Christmas tree and pack it away in the attic.
But it's also Jan 6, and Trump and his horde have forever tainted the day.
Switch days? Or refuse to give in to the fuckers?
But it's also Jan 6, and Trump and his horde have forever tainted the day.
Switch days? Or refuse to give in to the fuckers?
January 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
It's Twelfth Night. The day we take down our Christmas tree and pack it away in the attic.
But it's also Jan 6, and Trump and his horde have forever tainted the day.
Switch days? Or refuse to give in to the fuckers?
But it's also Jan 6, and Trump and his horde have forever tainted the day.
Switch days? Or refuse to give in to the fuckers?
Look at that spinner rack! Drool. Turn around and grab me a armload of those ECs, ma'am!
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Look at that spinner rack! Drool. Turn around and grab me a armload of those ECs, ma'am!
Thurs., Jan 16 at 7pm. I'll be in Paris for the premiere of the Making of My Friend Dahmer documentary. It examines the 20-year-long struggle to bring this book to completion.
It will be on ArteTV on Jan. 21, but here's a chance to see it on a big screen.
www.forumdesimages.fr/avant-premie...
It will be on ArteTV on Jan. 21, but here's a chance to see it on a big screen.
www.forumdesimages.fr/avant-premie...
January 6, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Thurs., Jan 16 at 7pm. I'll be in Paris for the premiere of the Making of My Friend Dahmer documentary. It examines the 20-year-long struggle to bring this book to completion.
It will be on ArteTV on Jan. 21, but here's a chance to see it on a big screen.
www.forumdesimages.fr/avant-premie...
It will be on ArteTV on Jan. 21, but here's a chance to see it on a big screen.
www.forumdesimages.fr/avant-premie...
I'll get the scoop when I'm in Paris next week, but there's little movement on freeing the Angoulême Fest from the reviled CEO Franck Bondoux. The 2026 fest is canceled after a massive boycott. Franck has a death grip on the operation and will not step aside.
A disaster for the French comix biz.
A disaster for the French comix biz.
Dozens Of Events Spring Up To Replace The Angoulême Comic Art Festival
Dozens of events spring up to replace the Angoulême Comic Art Festival 2026
bleedingcool.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I'll get the scoop when I'm in Paris next week, but there's little movement on freeing the Angoulême Fest from the reviled CEO Franck Bondoux. The 2026 fest is canceled after a massive boycott. Franck has a death grip on the operation and will not step aside.
A disaster for the French comix biz.
A disaster for the French comix biz.
NO regrets about bailing on this series. I liked Series 1 (who didn't?), was meh on Series 2, abandoned Series 3 when I got bored halfway through.
Sequel already announced! Stranger Things: Tales from ’85. Animated, no less. Ugh.
Sequel already announced! Stranger Things: Tales from ’85. Animated, no less. Ugh.
In ending, Stranger Things committed TV’s ultimate crime
It felt like a punishing endurance test, coming to a head countless times … and yet it’s not over. Where the Upside Down is concerned, it’s never over
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
NO regrets about bailing on this series. I liked Series 1 (who didn't?), was meh on Series 2, abandoned Series 3 when I got bored halfway through.
Sequel already announced! Stranger Things: Tales from ’85. Animated, no less. Ugh.
Sequel already announced! Stranger Things: Tales from ’85. Animated, no less. Ugh.
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Unfortunately, this.
January 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Unfortunately, this.
January 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." --- Dick Cheney, 2003.
Don't know why this statement popped into my head.
Don't know why this statement popped into my head.
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." --- Dick Cheney, 2003.
Don't know why this statement popped into my head.
Don't know why this statement popped into my head.
And when the next round of files are released, he invades Greenland.
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
And when the next round of files are released, he invades Greenland.
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It was not the breaking story I was hoping for
January 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
It was not the breaking story I was hoping for
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Jack Kirby's boyhood home, in what was then the squalid Lower East Tenement District. Still standing. The brick building, 147 Essex St.
"I hated the place," remembered Kirby.
#Kirby #comicbooks #JackKirby
"I hated the place," remembered Kirby.
#Kirby #comicbooks #JackKirby
January 3, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Jack Kirby's boyhood home, in what was then the squalid Lower East Tenement District. Still standing. The brick building, 147 Essex St.
"I hated the place," remembered Kirby.
#Kirby #comicbooks #JackKirby
"I hated the place," remembered Kirby.
#Kirby #comicbooks #JackKirby
2026 plans.
I have 9 months until the new book comes out, and then the promotional blitz. Until then I plan to fill the schedule productively but at a much more relaxed pace than 2025.
The next project is smaller and more fun. The postponed PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS 2.
#indiecomics #comics
I have 9 months until the new book comes out, and then the promotional blitz. Until then I plan to fill the schedule productively but at a much more relaxed pace than 2025.
The next project is smaller and more fun. The postponed PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS 2.
#indiecomics #comics
January 2, 2026 at 10:07 PM
2026 plans.
I have 9 months until the new book comes out, and then the promotional blitz. Until then I plan to fill the schedule productively but at a much more relaxed pace than 2025.
The next project is smaller and more fun. The postponed PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS 2.
#indiecomics #comics
I have 9 months until the new book comes out, and then the promotional blitz. Until then I plan to fill the schedule productively but at a much more relaxed pace than 2025.
The next project is smaller and more fun. The postponed PUNK ROCK & TRAILER PARKS 2.
#indiecomics #comics