Leonard Nimoy, starring in...

...Visit to a Small Planet

...The Man In The Glass Booth

...Oliver!

...Camelot

...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

...Equus

...Vincent

...Vincent

...Sherlock Holmes

...Sherlock Holmes

with Alan Sues

... Love Letters (for six nights)

Thanks to John Wendler

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

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

Clark Gable, Elsie the Cow, 1940's advertising art

Edward G. Robinson

William Bendix

Donald O'Connor

Loretta Young

Tony Curtis

Ceasar Romero

Fred Astaire

Eve Arden

Jack Palance

Judy Garland

Shirley Booth

Dana Andrews

Miyoshi Umeki

Jack Webb

Chuck Conners

Jim Backus

Ed Sullivan

Jack Paar

Art Linkletter

Mitch Miller

Liberace

Steve Allen

Milton Berle

Danny Kaye

Imogene Coca

George Gobel

Lucille Ball

Mort Sahl

Joey Bishop

Flip Wilson

self-portrait

Jack Kirby Print by Drew Friedman

On August 28, 2017, we celebrate the 100th birthday of Jack Kirby, a towering figure in comic book history. My portrait of a contemplative Kirby first appeared on the cover (and interior) of my 2014 book Heroes of the Comics (Fantagraphics). In honor of the Kirby centenary, the work is now being issued as a limited edition (15) large, fine art print,  hand-numbered, hand-titled, and signed by me.

http://www.drewfriedman.net/prints/jack-kirby.html

Early in his long career, Jack Kirby co-created the sensational Captain America. In the early 1950s, freelancing for DC and Atlas, he specialized in action thrillers and covers depicting horrifying monsters bent on destroying Earth. These appeared in Tales to Astonish,Amazing Adventures, and World of Fantasy.  At Marvel in the early 1960s, editor Stan Lee created a new superhero series, The Fantastic Four, and enlisted Kirby to plot and illustrate their adventures. Kirby replicated this success with The Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, X-Men, The Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, and others. Kirby devised what was essentially Marvel's in-house style, designing their dynamic visual motifs and creating a template that artists have been following and stealing for decades.