{"product_id":"any-similiarity-to-persons-living-or-dead-is-purely-coincidental-an-anthology-of-comics-1979-1985-2nd-edition-73866","title":"Any Similiarity To Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comics, 1979-1985 - 2nd Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1985, this is the fifth edition published in 2012. Out of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the publisher:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eA reprint of Drew Friedman's first book of comics from the pages of Raw magazine and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eFinally 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\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\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\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","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52254212948266,"sku":"73866","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/2879\/4922\/files\/9781606995211_bbe65.jpg?v=1786581434","url":"https:\/\/stuartngbooks.com\/products\/any-similiarity-to-persons-living-or-dead-is-purely-coincidental-an-anthology-of-comics-1979-1985-2nd-edition-73866","provider":"Stuart Ng Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}