Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Life Imitates Art


Life Imitates Art

 I asked some of the subjects that I chose to include in my latest book of portraits "Drew Friedman's CHOSEN PEOPLE", (Fantagraphics Books), if they would be willing to pose for a photo holding up their portrait from the book.

These are the results:

Jimmy Kimmel, who contributed the front cover blurb

author Merrill Markoe, who penned the book's foreword

R. Crumb (photos by Andrew Cooke)...



Comics artist Chris Ware, whose portrait and blurb appears on the book's back cover

cartoonist Bobby London (photo by Karen Angelica)

comedian/podcaster Marc Maron

My younger brother, author/photographer Kipp Friedman

Librarian/Specialist at Columbia University Karen Green

screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski

Mel Brooks (photo by Scott Alexander)

comedy writer/producer/podcaster Frank Santopadre

Gilbert Gottfried (photo by Lily Gottfried)

Houston "Deli Man" Ziggy Gruber



Shemp Howard
(via Thomas Vasquez)

order the book here:

https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Friedmans-Chosen-People-Friedman/dp/1683960599/ref=zg_bsnr_3825101_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=V4RE0T4THGCKYHHKKDPA





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7 comments:

  1. LTJanuary 10, 2018 at 12:04 PM

    you are mighty!

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  2. lastangelmanJanuary 10, 2018 at 4:00 PM

    Awesome, did you ask Woody Allen?

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    1. Drew FriedmanJanuary 10, 2018 at 4:54 PM

      No, Woody is not a fan of how I've drawn him over the years.

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  3. cricketJanuary 10, 2018 at 4:23 PM

    But "whose" portrait, not "who's," please.

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  4. Drew FriedmanJanuary 10, 2018 at 4:53 PM

    Thank you, corrected.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2018 at 8:26 AM

    Wowser! You can hobnob with the Holy Merrill Markoe? You are a lucky guy to snag her forward. Must enrich my Friedman library soon with this one!

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  6. ChuckDeluiseJanuary 22, 2018 at 10:11 PM

    These are great, and I love the book! Can't wait to print out these photos and insert them into the pages.

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