Any Similarity to Persons Living Or Dead Is Purely Coincidental

Informationen zum Autor Drew Friedman's work has appeared in The New York Times, Mad, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and many other magazines. He is the author of several collections of comics and cartooning, including All the Presidents, Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix, Old Jewish Comedians, and Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental. He resides in Pennsylvania with his wife and collaborator, Kathy Bidus, and their beagles. Klappentext A reprint of Drew Friedman's first book of comics from the pages of Raw magazine and elsewhere. Zusammenfassung Finally back in print! Any Similarity... is a collection of DrewFriedman’s earliest comic strips and illustrations! featuring his mostobsessively stippled black-and-white panels and his most hilarious wise-guytakes on the stars and demi-stars and never-quite-stars of that swamp we like tocall showbiz. Friedman is the kind of pop-culture aficionado whose Three Stoogesworship is focused not on Moe! Larry or Curly but on Shemp (whose unmistakablemug graces the new cover of this edition)! and whose teasing adoration can oftenbe mistaken for mockery or contempt. Who but a worshipful fan would lavish quiteso many dots on the loving delineation of these greats’ every pimple andwrinkle?

Product details

• Authors: Drew Friedman, Drew Friedman, Drew Friedman Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Friedman Drew, Friedman Josh Alan
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9781606995211
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-521-1
• No. of pages: 92
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, Graphic Novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions