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New Portraits of Underground Cartoonist Icons
"Underground cartoonists are all a bunch of baptist ministers in Popeye suits" -Charles BukowskiI'm working on a series of illustrations that will eventually total 100 full page images of underground...
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Portrait of LAST GASP publisher Ron Turner
This new portrait of Last Gasp publisher Ron Turner (Baba Ron), will accompany his foreword to the upcoming book SLOW DEATH ZERO: THE Comix Anthology of Ecological Horror", edited by Jon B. Cooke. The...
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Jared Kushner channels Dorian Gray
Season two of the Netflix series Dirty Money debuted on Netflix this month with the first episode a profile of President Donald Trump's son-in-law and top White House advisor, Jared Kushner. Titled,...
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New Biographies of Stan Lee, Mac Raboy and Irving Berlin
I strongly recommend these three new biographies:Stan Lee, A Marvelous Life by Danny Fingeroth, St Martin's PressStan Lee (born Stanley Lieber), was a complex man. He was both worshiped and vilified,...
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DRAWN TO PRESIDENTS: Portraits and Satiric Drawings by Drew Friedman
A new exhibit, DRAWN TO PRESIDENTS: Portraits and Satiric drawings by Drew Friedman will open to the public on November 2nd, 2019 and run till Feb 9th, 2020 at the BIlly Ireland CARTOON Library &...
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Drawing President Trump
My latest book, All The Presidents, portraits of all 45 presidents of the United States, inevitably concludes with the current president, Donald J. Trump. I didn't draw the 45 presidents...
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All The Presidents: Drew Friedman in conversation with Robert Klein
Thur, Oct 3rd at New York's Strand Bookstore's Rare Books Room, Broadway and 12th St, join artist Drew Friedman in conversation with the legendary comedian and actor Robert Klein discussing Friedman's...
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Three upcoming book covers
Three upcoming books featuring my cover art: my upcoming book "All The Presidents", coming out Sept 2019 from Fantagraphics books. Cover design by Keely McCarthey"RONDO HATTON, Beauty Within the Brute"...
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New Robert Crumb Print
This new drawing of R. Crumb strumming his mandolin amongst his vast record collection in his home in Sauve, France is now available as a large, high quality, signed, titled and numbered limited...
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Portrait of Al Kooper
My new portrait of my old friend, musician Al Kooper, in celebration of his 75th birthday this year. This is now available as a large, high quality, limited edition (20), signed...
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The Book of WEIRDO Celebration at the Society of Illustrators
The Society of Illustrators, 128 E. 63rd St in New York hosts a visual panel and book signing for The Book of WEIRDO, a history and celebration of R. Crumb's legendary humor/graphics/comics magazine,...
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The Book of WEIRDO Launch at the East Coast COMiCON
I'll be a guest at the East Coast COMiCON on Sat, May 18th. I'll be doing two panels, "Schtick Figures" at 1:30 PM modorated by comics historian Danny Fingeroth, and at 5:00 PM, a panel celebrating the...
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New interview for the "SUBTERRANEAN Dispatch" Podcast
I'm the third guest on Jon B. Cooke's fabulous new Comics/Comix podcast SUBTERRANEAN DISPATCH, following the one and only R. Crumb and comics historian Paul Buhle. Listen in as we discuss many topics,...
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My tribute to SON OF MAD
A SON OF MADFor the latest issue of MAD (vol 2, #7), I drew this tribute to the 1959 signet paperback cover for SON OF MAD painted by famed science fiction illustrator and MAD's then main magazine and...
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MORE of the LAST of the RED HOT LOVERS...
James Coco...James Coco, art by Al Hirschfeld...Jack Weston...art by Sam NorkinDom Deluise...Jerry StillerSid CaesarMilton Berle...Tom PostonMarvin KaplanShelley BermanHarry H. CorbetFrank SuttonDon...
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R. Crumb and The Book of WEIRDO
On March 2nd, the worlds greatest greatest artist/cartoonist R. Crumb, in NYC for a gallery opening of his work, joined me and author/editor Jon B. Cooke and his brother Andrew for lunch in downtown...
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MINESHAFT #37 Cover
This is my cover art for the upcoming Spring 2019 issue of MINESHAFT magazine, featuring artwork and prose by some of the world's greatest cartoonists, among them R. Crumb, Bill Griffith, Robert...
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Drawing Stan Lee
Stan Lee (1922-2018), Born Stanley Martin Lieber, was a complex man. He was both worshiped and vilified, and has been described as a tireless and shameless celebrity spokesman for Marvel comics. He was...
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Zacherley's Centennial
My new portrait of the legendary TV horror host Zacherley, "the Cool Ghoul" is based on a small black & white postcard image I created in the mid-1980's for collector Glenn Bray, and included in...
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