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Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt • Documentary • Rentable on Amazon Prime
Posted on 10/28/25 at 10:23 am
Posted on 10/28/25 at 10:23 am
Trailer on YouTube
Something for the older folks who grew up on National Lampoon, Heavy Metal, and High Times.
I've been looking forward to this for years. The interviews are entertaining and with (for the most part) celebrities that you'd know. Gilbert Godfried is a big part of it, you can tell that it's at the end of Godfried's life.
For me, unfortunately, it felt like a lot of comic creator, low budget biographies, where the editing is too fast and features gimmicky graphics (in an attempt to make sure you knew it was about a comic artist). It jumps around a bit and doesn't give a great overview of Friedman's rise from underground artist to near-celebrity. The biggest sin is that the art just flashes by. And personally I'd have loved to see his process. He went from being the stippling king in the 70's and 80's to a watercolor or ink wash process that he currently uses (or so I think).
Still a good watch. My wife didn't know him from Adam, but thought the doc was interesting with some laughs (packed with comedians and smart-arse remarks).
Something for the older folks who grew up on National Lampoon, Heavy Metal, and High Times.
I've been looking forward to this for years. The interviews are entertaining and with (for the most part) celebrities that you'd know. Gilbert Godfried is a big part of it, you can tell that it's at the end of Godfried's life.
For me, unfortunately, it felt like a lot of comic creator, low budget biographies, where the editing is too fast and features gimmicky graphics (in an attempt to make sure you knew it was about a comic artist). It jumps around a bit and doesn't give a great overview of Friedman's rise from underground artist to near-celebrity. The biggest sin is that the art just flashes by. And personally I'd have loved to see his process. He went from being the stippling king in the 70's and 80's to a watercolor or ink wash process that he currently uses (or so I think).
Still a good watch. My wife didn't know him from Adam, but thought the doc was interesting with some laughs (packed with comedians and smart-arse remarks).
This post was edited on 10/28/25 at 10:37 am
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 6:18 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:Never read the last two, I caught the tail end of NL, but I've read some of their golden age '70s stuff (a nice anthology c.1980 is out there - check your library).
National Lampoon, Heavy Metal, and High Times
I know DF mostly from the GG podcast. This was the 1st thing of DF's I saw, and I still consider it his masterpiece:
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:38 am to Kafka
The Rock Hudson/Gomer Pyle gag was based on a joke/rumor from the 60's and 70's. When we were kids we'd all heard the rumor that Rock Hudson had married Jim Nabors. At the time the joke was that Hudson was seen as a ladies' man. As kids spreading the joke, we didn't know that it was based on actual rumors of him being gay (we all thought of Jim Nabors as that same kind of "funny" that Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly were). About a year after Friedman's strip appeared in Weirdo, Hudson was diagnosed with AIDS, then we all knew the deal. Nabors threatened to sue Drew Friedman in the late 90's when his first book of his old strips came out, and it included the famous strips with Rock and Gomer.
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