Out June 201, 2014
This collects Drew Friedman’s caricatures of famous and not-so-famous cartoonists: the men and women who created superheroes, Mad magazine, and much more.
Featuring
approximately 75 full-color portraits of the pioneering legends of
American comic books, including publishers, editors and artists from the
industry’s birth in the ’30s, through the brilliant artists and writers
of behind EC Comics in the ’50s. All lovingly rendered and chosen by
Drew Friedman, a cartooning legend in his own right. Featuring subjects
popular and obscure, men and women, as well as several pioneering
African-American artists. Each subject features a short essay by
Friedman, who grew up knowing many of the subjects included (as the son
of writer Bruce Jay Friedman), including Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Will
Eisner, Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Will Elder, and Bill
Gaines. More names you might recognize: Barks, Crumb, Wood, Wolverton,
Frazetta, Siegel & Shuster, Kirby, Cole, Ditko, Werthem… it’s a Hall
of Fame of comic book history from the man BoingBoing.com call
“America’s greatest living portrait artist!” Full color illustrations
throughout
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