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Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art, 1979-1985 Hardcover - 2012

by Drew Friedman; Josh Alan Friedman; Introduction by Chester Chappy O'Daniel


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Finally back in print, Any Similarity... is a collection of Drew Friedman's earliest comic strips and illustrations, featuring his most obsessively stippled black-and-white panels and his most hilarious wise-guy takes on the stars and demi-stars and never-quite-stars of that swamp we like to call showbiz.

In these strips, many of them written by his brother Josh Alan Friedman (both are sons of the legendary Bruce Jay Friedman: humor genes will tell!), the artist works out his obsession with such celebrities as Jim Nabors, Frank Sinatra Jr., Joe Franklin, Bob Hope, Andy Griffith... and Ed Wood, Jr. film star Tor Johnson, whom Friedman actually catapulted back into some sort of semi-fame when these strips were first published in the 1980s.

Friedman is the kind of pop-culture aficionado whose Three Stooges worship is focused not on Moe, Larry or Curly but on Shemp (whose unmistakable mug graces the new cover of this edition), and whose teasing adoration can often be mistaken for mockery or contempt. But who but a worshipful fan would lavish quite so many dots on the loving delineation of these greats' every pimple and wrinkle?

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  • Title Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art, 1979-1985
  • Author Drew Friedman; Josh Alan Friedman; Introduction by Chester Chappy O'Daniel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Two
  • Pages 92
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fantagraphics Books
  • Date 2012-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Glossary, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781606995211 / 1606995219
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 12.1 x 9.2 x 0.6 in (30.73 x 23.37 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 16 to UP years
  • Grade levels 11 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014381728
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.5
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