Son of playwright Bruce Jay Friedman, by the way

March 4, 2006 1:00 PM

It's been a while since the glory days of Raw Magazine, but when it was still published the cartoonist whose work I found most intriguing was the pointillist-styled, celebrity obsessed world of Drew Friedman.
posted by Astro Zombie (10 comments total)

I'd simply link to his Web page, but the son of a bitch doesn't have one.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:04 PM on March 4, 2006

Yay, Drew Friedman. I'll add a quote from a letter from Drew to R. Crumb's Weirdo:

Please tell the fans, Drew Friedman does not copy from photographs. I do use photos to assist me at times, but I never copy from them. Drawing with dots helps me achieve a "photographic" look, which is why I draw with dots. So much for these nasty rumors.

(Weirdo number 9, 1983-84)
posted by Termite at 2:01 PM on March 4, 2006

Didn't he do a really creepy one about a black guy who stops for gas in Mayberry? I've looked, but never could find it.
posted by atchafalaya at 2:04 PM on March 4, 2006

atchafalaya, I'm pretty sure that cartton appeared in a late '80's issue of Spy. I'll try to find it....
posted by maryh at 2:08 PM on March 4, 2006

The Friedman Brothers are gods to me. That is all.
posted by jonmc at 2:23 PM on March 4, 2006

Didn't he do a really creepy one about a black guy who stops for gas in Mayberry?

Yes, I know I've seen that, I'm pretty sure it is collected in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead.
posted by marxchivist at 2:37 PM on March 4, 2006

Wow. The story of The Day the Clown Cried, linked to in the FPP, is astounding. It really deserves its own FPP.
posted by soiled cowboy at 3:50 PM on March 4, 2006

Go for. I blew my one post for today, and tomorrow I'm posting about Rondo Hatton. Wikipedia has a good entry for the movie, and some excellent links. It really is a fascinating story.
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:57 PM on March 4, 2006

great post. thank you for the links.
posted by Dreamghost at 2:32 AM on March 5, 2006

I miss them, too.
posted by Busithoth at 7:25 AM on March 5, 2006