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Derf Backderf

@derfbackderf.bsky.social

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

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · Sep 4

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 Comes with a 18x24 poster, previously unpublished, that is worth the $16 alone.

Buy it here:

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Art of Derf Backderf

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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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1h

Paramount aka Famous Studios Popeye cartoons are just fucking awful.

That is all.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 3h

Vets have gotten crazy expensive. It's nuts! I just dropped $850 on my 14-year-old dog.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 23h

“LET’S DO THE FUCKING NEWS!”

Frank Booth, a villainous character from David Lynch’s movie, Blue Velvet. Frank is a middle-aged white dude in a leather jacket, holding an oxygen mask to his face.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 23h

It's not IF Mad King Cheeto invokes the Insurrection Act and puts us under martial law, it's WHEN. It's inevitable. He doesn't need a reason, although Portland Frog Guy sure has chilled the blood of MAGA, hasn't he?

I think Cheeto waits until the midterms are looming, and fucks up the election.

What Mad King Cheeto thinks is "violent insurrection." A guy in a frog outfit staring down a dozen heavily-armed jackboots.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1d

Well, dang, that was a really good Monday Night Football.

Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1d

Just when I thought 2025 couldn't possibly get worse.

Rush reform for first time since drummer Neil Peart’s death

Canadian prog-rockers will play seven concerts in summer 2026 in the US, Canada and Mexico, after hiring new drummer Anika Nilles

www.theguardian.com

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1d

Awwwww. Look whose widdle feelings got hurt.

Stephen Miller Melts Down as MAGA Is Blamed for Fire at Judge’s House

A judge’s $1.1 million beach home has gone up in flames.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1d

A judge crossed the Tangerine Mussolini Junta last month. Her house was firebombed yesterday. Her grandkids were inside, but thankfully everyone got out.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Liberal South Carolina
Judge Diane Goodstein's home is burning to the ground after an explosion. SLED is investigation as arson and refer attack as Judge Goodstein had been receiving multiple threats.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1d

Faithful studio assistant.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

Even more incredible, after they deliver their load at the steel mills, the freighters go in reverse up the Crooked River (which is what "Cuyahoga" means btw) and journey 5 miles BACKWARDS through those turns back to Lake Erie!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWlx...

Time Lapse of Freighter Sam Laud Backing Down the Cuyahoga River

YouTube video by Share the River

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

That, my friend, is what is called Collision Bend. The name speaks for itself. Somehow the freighters make the turns. It's incredible to watch. I assumed it was done by computer, but I've learned, no, the helmsman does it by eye and hand!

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

Those guys really know how to take those turns. It's amazing to watch them. Once in awhile they'll crunch a few pleasure boats docked further downstream in the club district>

There's a great outdoor music venue right on the banks. More than once an ore freighter goes gliding by. Quite a sight.

Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

The river is still used for industry. The steel mills further upstream are going strong. A lot cleaner than the bad old days, but not something I want to live near. And giant ore freighters go up and down right past these condos!

Gotta have some balls to live in this spot.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

Crazy new neighborhoods going up all over Cleveland. This one is down in the Flats, the former industrial hellscape on the shores of the Burning River. Ugly buildings-- I dislike these boxes-- but damn cool setting. Not for me though. Not enough greenery. And I don't trust it all isn't toxic.

New condos in the Flats on the Scranton Peninsula.

Cool bridge views. They light all these up at night.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

It's just a turkey! Give it a hard kick and problem solved.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

Hero!

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the Dino Channel. Turns out the fearsome Velociraptor?

Was the size of a turkey!

Fucking Spielberg.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

It was a great comics paper in the 1990s. One of the first to pick up my strip and they ran my strip for probably 20 years. Then ownership changes, masthead turmoil, they stopped paying me, and I had to cut them off.

I greatly miss 1990s altweeklies. Aughts altweeklies? Not so much.

Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 3d

Tucson Weekly's annual comix issue, 1985.

With a fabulous cover by Lynda Barry.

Tucson Weekly. 1985. Lynda Barry cover of a couple making out.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 3d

1971, Lorain Library in Ohio. Bookshelves collapsed domino-style. I always wondered if this ever happened!

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4d

America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, just Barry Windsor Smith quietly hanging out at a dealer table at a con in 1975. Probably selling original art for $10 a page!

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 4d

How else are we going to close the shaving cream trade gap that is crippling the economy?

(he is such an asshole).

Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 4d

How bad are tariffs going?

I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.

UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.

That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

Screenshot of message from UPS:

Hi Adam,
All import fees must be paid prior to delivery.
Save time - prepay online for your FREIGHTCOM shipment. If import fees are not paid before delivery, an additional surcharge will be applied.
Total Amount Due
119.20 USD
Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes.
Pay Now ›

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