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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 The first collection of celebrity portraits andcaricatures from the pen of Drew Friedman. Zusammenfassung With Too Soon ? Friedman finally (none "too soon!" in fact) gets hisdue with this fat! beautiful collection that showcases his wide-ranging skillsas a portraitist and caricaturist. Too Soon? is evenly split betweenpolitical celebrities and show-business ones! ranging from Friedman's instantlyiconic "Barack Obama as George Washington" New Yorker cover to brutaldepictions 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 sideinclude Bill and Hillary Clinton! John Kerry! John McCain! and George W. Bush(with an iconic "W. as Strangelove" image) and his gang. Entertainers includeTiny Tim! Barney Fife! Bob Dylan! Woody Allen! Oprah Winfrey! Barbra Streisand!Jerry Lewis! the Three Stooges! Ellen DeGeneres! and Conan O'Brien. And fallingsomewhere in the gray area between entertainers and political players (you makethe call!) are Rush Limbaugh (who blasted Friedman's George W. Bush image asbeing of "low artistic quality")! Sarah Palin! and Michael Moore.
