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By Drew Friedman<\/strong> (Fantagraphics Books) Technically, this isn’t a graphic novel or trade collection, it’s a picture book. But when it’s a series of drawings depicting a procession of Jewish American Comedians in their wrinkly twilight years by the absolute master of pencil rendering and ironic nostalgia I’m prepared to bend whatever rules I need to in order to make more people aware.<\/p>\n Friedman can just plain draw. His caricatures are powerful, resonant and joyful. He at once captures what these wizened laugh-smiths were about, and gives them a beer-goggles beauty that our generation of comedy fans just doesn’t see in recordings of the performers. A book for true art collectors, whatever their particular fascination.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a9 2006 Drew Friedman. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2\u00a0 By Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN 10: 1-56097-741-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-56097-741-4 Technically, this isn’t a graphic novel or trade collection, it’s a picture book. But when it’s a series of drawings depicting a procession of Jewish American Comedians in their wrinkly twilight years by the absolute master of pencil rendering and ironic nostalgia I’m … <\/p>\n
\nISBN 10: 1-56097-741-8
\nISBN 13: 978-1-56097-741-4<\/p>\n