Presents a collection of Drew and Josh Alan Friedman's strips, panels, and movie-star take-offs from 1986 to 1990. The artist combines his skill as a caricaturist with a satirical approach to the leading public figures of the present and the past.

Warts and All

Humor & Entertainment

Friedman, Josh Alan

Friedman, Drew

Humor

Penguin??Books

Each month, readers of Spy magazine turn to its second most popular feature, Friedman's "Private Lives of Public Figures"--a regular department that peers into the ridiculous and bawdy personal matters of celebrities and politicians. 70 cartoons with captions.

Private Lives of Public Figures

Comics & Graphic Novels

Comic Strips

St Martins Pr

Melvin Burkhart the Anatomical Wonder; Zip the Pinhead; Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins; Johnny Eck, the King of the Freaks; Koo Koo the Birdgirl; and 45 more fascinating sideshow freaks both famous and obscure are immortalized in Drew Friedman’s delightful portraits. Before the politically correct impulses of the 1970s squelched the grand American tradition of the sideshow people born with abnormalities and others, like Jolly Jere the Fat Man, who created their oddity exhibited themselves to the shock and thrill of millions in sideshows nationwide. As a youth in the late 60s and early 70s, Drew Friedman often visited Coney Island with his family, and he and his brothers always insisted on seeing the "Freak Show." Drew Friedman’s Sideshow Freaks presents 50 of his favorite historic human oddities famous and obscure in mesmerizing full-color portraits. As in Warts and All, Old Jewish Comedians, and More Old Jewish Comedians, Drew Friedman once again meticulously, brilliantly, and affectionately brings to life people in the show business, this time focusing on America’s oddest performers.

Drew Friedman's Sideshow Freaks

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Blast Books

Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental

Finally back in print, this collection of Drew Friedman's earliest comic strips and illustrations features his most obsessively stippled black-and-white panels and his most hilarious wise-guy takes on the stars and demi-stars and never-quite-stars of that swamp we like to call showbiz.

Friedman, Josh A.

Fantagraphics Books

by Drew Friedman The Fun Never Stops is a comprehensive collection of premier caricaturist Drew Friedman's best comic strips, illustrations, and mug shots dealing with all the familiar Friedman themes the world has come to love: showbiz has-beens, ugly old white men, nefarious politicians, debauched celebrities, the ubiquitous Lord Of Eltingville, etc. Most of the work is from the 1990s, and show Friedman's gradual phasing out of his famous (and amazing) black-and-white "stipple" look to his current (and equally amazing) "lush watercolor" style. The book is topped off with a detailed, career-spanning biographical introduction by Ben Schwartz and a foreword by Daniel Clowes.

The Fun Never Stops!

Graphic Novels

Battle or befriend more than 80 bizarre life forms in this creature collection for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! Every new world and space station comes with its own dangers, from strange new cultures to robotic killing machines to alien predators ready to devour unwary spacefarers. Inside this book, you'll find rules and ecologies for creatures from across the known worlds, plus alien equipment and more. A robust system for creating your own creatures ensures that your parties never be without weird new aliens to fight or trade with, and racial rules for many of the new organisms let you be the alien, making Alien Archive not just a collection of creatures to kill, but a fascinating menu of creatures to be! Want to play a hyperevolved floating brain? A mighty dragonkin? A silicon-based crystalline slug? Explore the limits of your galaxy and your game with Starfinder Alien Archive!

Starfinder Roleplaying Game: Alien Archive

Staff, Paizo

BRADBURY,RAY

Paizo, Inc.

With Too Soon? Friedman finally (none "too soon," in fact) gets his due with this fat, beautiful collection that showcases his wide-ranging skills as a portraitist and caricaturist. Too Soon? is evenly split between political celebrities and show-business ones, ranging from Friedman's instantly iconic "Barack Obama as George Washington" New Yorker cover to brutal depictions of Britney Spears and her tabloid-filling ilk. Subjects (or targets, depending on how you look at it) for Friedman's pen on the political side include Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John McCain, and George W. Bush (with an iconic "W. as Strangelove" image) and his gang. Entertainers include Tiny Tim, Barney Fife, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lewis, the Three Stooges, Ellen DeGeneres, and Conan O'Brien. And falling somewhere in the gray area between entertainers and political players (you make the call!) are Rush Limbaugh (who blasted Friedman's George W. Bush image as being of "low artistic quality"), Sarah Palin, and Michael Moore.

Too Soon? Celebrity Portraits

Even More Old Jewish Comedians features master caricaturist/portraitist Drew Friedman’s spectacular visual tribute to, well, old Jewish comedians. Its net is thrown a bit wider to include women (Olive Oyl voice Mae Questel, Ed Sullivan Show regular Jean Carroll, and The Rise of the Goldbergs creator Gertrude Goldberg); a handful of more contemporary figures (Richard Belzer, whose Law &amp; Order: SVU gig has eclipsed his stand-up comedy, and Welcome Back, Kotter’s Gabe Kaplan); and pop-culture legends (Prof. Irwin Corey, legendary Warner Bros. voice artist Mel Blanc), plus Marty Ingels, Fyvush Finkel, Gary Morton, Sam Levenson, Bobby Remsen, Max Patkin, Marvin Kaplan, Norm Crosby, Sammy Shore, Joey Adams, Lou Jacobi, and Sid James.

EVEN MORE OLD JEWISH COMEDIANS HC

How To Create Comics & Manga

Finally back in print, Any Similarity... is a collection of Drew and Josh Alan Friedman's earliest comic strips and illustrations, featuring Drew's most obsessively stippled black-and-white panels and his most hilarious wise-guy takes on the stars and demi-stars and never-quite-stars of that swamp we like to call showbiz. Drew is the kind of pop-culture aficionado whose Three Stooges worship is focused not on Moe, Larry or Curly but on Shemp (whose unmistakable mug graces the new cover of this edition), and whose teasing adoration can often be mistaken for mockery or contempt. Who but a worshipful fan would lavish quite so many dots on the loving delineation of these greats' every pimple and wrinkle?

Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental

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Warts and All

Private Lives of Public Figures

Drew Friedman's Sideshow Freaks

Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental

Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental

The Fun Never Stops!

Starfinder Roleplaying Game: Alien Archive

Too Soon? Celebrity Portraits

EVEN MORE OLD JEWISH COMEDIANS HC

Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental