DREW FRIEDMAN Heroes Of The Comics & More Heroes Of The Comics Set

Heroes Of The Comics and More Heroes features over 80 full-color portraits of the pioneering legends of American comic books, including publishers, editors and artists from the industry’s birth in the ’30s, through the brilliant artists and writers behind EC Comics in the ’50s. All lovingly rendered and chosen by Drew Friedman, a cartooning legend in his own right. More Heroes Of The Comics: Spanning the birth of the industry to its first few decades, this book has approximately 100 full-color portraits of the legends of American comic books, publishers, editors, and artists. Its subjects are popular and obscure, men and women. Each subject features a short essay by Friedman, who grew up knowing many of the subjects included (as the son of writer Bruce Jay Friedman), including Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Will Elder, and Bill Gaines. More names you might recognize: Barks, Crumb, Wood, Wolverton, Frazetta, Siegel & Shuster, Kirby, Cole, Ditko, Werthem… it’s a Hall of Fame of comic book history by what some have called “America’s greatest living portrait artist!” Drew Friedman's work has appeared in The New York Times, Mad, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and many other magazines. He is the author of several collections of comics and cartooning, including All the Presidents, Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix, Old Jewish Comedians, and Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental. Full-color illustrations throughout. Out Of Print. Condition. Fine Plus. Soft spine corner bumps.