D R E W • F R I E D M A N: September 2017

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Leonard Nimoy, starring in...

...Visit to a Small Planet

...The Man In The Glass Booth

...Oliver!

...Camelot

...The King and I

The Fourposter...

...Full Circle

...One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

...My Fair Lady

...Caligula

...6 RMS RIV VU

...Fiddler on the Roof

...Equus

...Vincent

...Sherlock Holmes

with Alan Sues

... Love Letters (for six nights)

Thanks to John Wendler

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Gilbert Gottfried, drawn for the final Village Voice

The final print issue of New York's legendary alt' weekly newspaper The Village Voice is out today (9/20/17), and many current and former contributing writers,

photographers, illustrators and cartoonists were invited to create one last piece for the issue.

I drew my old friend, comedian and podcaster Gilbert Gottfried, posed on a downtown street in Manhattan.

The addition of the, (soon to be history), red Voice distribution box was suggested by the Voice's art director, Ashley Smestad Velez.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/09/20/youre-probably-reading-this-on-an-electronic-device/

Gilbert Gottfried

initial sketch (shoes were changed to sneakers)

printed page, including my text

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Caricatures by Dal Holcomb

Dal Holcomb, (Delmora Bistwick Holcomb), 1901-1978, was a prolific twentieth century commercial illustrator. He began his career in the thirties, specializing in sexy pin-up girls, and creating advertising art for several major accounts and countless magazine illustrations and covers.

Holcomb was also an excellent caricaturist, and beginning in the fifties, created lively, colorful gouache silhouette portraits of many current film and television stars, continuing into the late sixties. This is the work I'm presenting here. I couldn't find any information on where these caricatures originally appeared though, but I'm speculating that they were created either for art gallery showings of his work, or for regional newspaper TV suppliment covers. Any information appreciated.

Thanks to John Wendler