{"product_id":"any-similarity-to-persons-living-drew-friedman-9781606995211","title":"Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art, 1979-1985","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinally back in print, \u003cem\u003eAny Similarity\u003c\/em\u003e... 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriedman 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Drew Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1606995219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606995211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.10h x 9.20w x 0.60d","brand":"Drew Friedman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43987934380287,"sku":"9781606995211","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a404bbc6-a3d2-4627-945a-5f06e4990bf0.jpg?v=1683291680","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/any-similarity-to-persons-living-drew-friedman-9781606995211","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}