Drew Friedman — Mars Attacks, Live, On Film
Cover, Mars Attacks #3, 1994 & Trading Card, Mars Attacks Archives, 1994
Wallace Wood. Norm Saunders. Robert Crumb. Basil Wolverton. Jack Davis. Art Spiegelman. Bill Griffith. Gil Kane. Jay Lynch. John Pound. Bob Powell. Tom Sutton. Bhob Stewart.
Topps (staff and freelance alike) artistic line-up of the late 20th century reads like an unbeatable all-star team of talent. (And that’s not even close to a complete list.)
The list of course also includes the incomprable Drew Friedman, who among other assignments, drew the hilarious Toxic High trading card series for Topps, using his trademark stipple effect.
I’ve been looking for a good Friedman original and found this great cover completely by accident browsing in a flat file at Scott Eder’s gallery in New Jersey. It became a must -have. Scott loves it as well, so it took some heavy duty haggling to pry it away. But…I published the damn thing, so it must have been fate. Like I said, a “must-have.”
I believe this Mars Attacks cover is the only comic book cover Drew created for us.
Hey Scott, find out if the Hollywood mogul is based on an actual person.
I’ll keep it between us.
(Happy Halloween, everyone!)
