Media release — lastly back in print, any type of Similarity… is a collection of Drew Friedman’s earliest comic strips as well as illustrations, featuring his many obsessively stippled black-and-white panels as well as his many funny wise-guy takes on the stars as well as demi-stars as well as never-quite-stars of that swamp we like to phone call showbiz.
In these strips, numerous of them written by his sibling Josh Alan Friedman (both are sons of the legendary Bruce Jay Friedman: humor genes will tell!), the artist works out his obsession with such stars as Jim Nabors, Frank Sinatra Jr., Joe Franklin, Bob Hope, Andy Griffith… as well as Ed Wood, Jr. film star Tor Johnson, whom Friedman really catapulted back into some kind of semi-fame when these strips were very first published in the 1980s.

Friedman is the type of pop-culture aficionado whose three Stooges worship is focused not on Moe, Larry or Curly however on Shemp (whose unmistakable mug graces the new cover of this edition), as well as whose teasing adoration can frequently be mistaken for mockery or contempt. however who however a worshipful fan would luxurious rather so numerous dots on the loving delineation of these greats’ every pimple as well as wrinkle?

“I stand in awe of Drew Friedman’s method as well as the specific flavor of unfortunate old America he captures.” – R. Crumb

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Any similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental [New Edition]
by Drew Friedman & Josh Alan Friedman

88-page black & white 9.25″ x 12.25″ hardcover • $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-521-1

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