For years, acclaimed artist Drew Friedman has chronicled an oddball, alternate history of American pop culture, where forgotten character actors, old Jewish comedians, comic book artists, and liverspotted elevator operators are afforded the spotlight over Hollywood starlets and heartthrobs. This latest collection showcases a wide range of recent colour and blackandwhite portraits of comedians (Gilbert Gottfried, Groucho Marx, Selma Diamond, Moms Mabley, Brother Theodore), writers (Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Zwiebel, Bruce Jay Friedman, Arnie Kogan), musicians (B.B. King, Bob Dylan, Al Kooper, Sammy Davis, Jr., Weird Al), directors (Buster Keaton, Elaine May, Terry Zwigoff), comic book legends (Max Gaines, Bill Gaines, Kelly Freas, Ron Turner), actors (Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr, Rondo Hatton, Peter Falk) and other famous, infamous, and notsofamous human beings that Friedman has drawn inspiration from over his lifetime. In addition to over 100 fullpage images, this collection features a foreword by historian of comedy Kliph Nesteroff, a glossary of brief biographical information on each subject by the author, as well as the neverbeforecollected eightpage comic strip, R. Crumb and Me, detailing Friedmans intense relationship to the work of the cartoonist he cites as his greatest inspiration of all. Shtick Figures is a must have for fans of Friedmans inimitable talent and sharp curatorial eye for preserving lesser known but worthy tributaries of all aspects of American culture,...

Binding: Hardback;128 pages; Publisher: Fantagraphics; Classification: AKLC; Weight: 1098 g; Dimensions: 234 x 325 x 19

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