![]() ![]() Were those images made from xeroxes of old screen print newspaper photos? Jim Nabors, Tor Johnson. It was unlike anything else, capturing hidden lives like a documentary photographer. His photorealistic work using an arcane stippling approach, starting with the strips he did with his brother Josh Alan Friedman for places like Heavy Metal and RAW, was brilliantly funny, scarily realistic, and often mean. And it doesn't disappoint in any way it exceeds beyond any expectation.Įarly in his career, Friedman stood out from the pack due to his sheer talent, biting humor and nearly impossible-to-comprehend drawing style. ![]() ![]() I loved Friedman's Fantagraphics series on Jewish comedians (the three-volume Old Jewish Comedians, 2006-11) and the founders of the comic book universe ( Heroes of the Comics, 2014 and More Heroes of the Comics, 2016), but this is the book I'd been waiting for. Click any image to enlarge.ĭrew Friedman's latest book of portraits of iconic celebrities, almost-celebrities, and those nearly lost in the passage of time, Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix (Fantagraphics, 2022), is a love letter to the men and women in the battle trenches of the underground comics world, an explosive and short-lived movement that ran, essentially, from 1967 to 1977 on both coasts (New York City and San Francisco) with mini-eruptions throughout the rest of the U.S. John Kelly | NovemDrew Friedman's sketch and final version of the cover of Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix, with a portrait of Robert Crumb, surrounded by the work of other artists captured in the book. Interviews Drew Friedman’s Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix: “A masterpiece, a treasure, an encyclopedia” ![]()
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