Paying Tribute to the Pioneering Legends of American Comic Books

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 19, 2016

Comic artist and illustrator Drew Friedman joins us to discuss More Heroes Of The Comics: Portraits Of The Pioneering Legends Of Comic Books, along with Karen Green, Columbia University's first Curator for Comics and Cartoons. The book collects Drew Friedman’s portraits of famous and not-so-famous cartoonists with 80 full-color portraits of the pioneering legends of American comic books including Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner.

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