Finally back in print, Any Similarity... is a collection of DrewFriedman's earliest comic strips and illustrations, featuring his mostobsessively stippled black-and-white panels and his most hilarious wise-guytakes on the stars and demi-stars and never-quite-stars of that swamp we like tocall showbiz. Friedman is the kind of pop-culture aficionado whose Three Stoogesworship is focused not on Moe, Larry or Curly but on Shemp (whose unmistakablemug graces the new cover of this edition), and whose teasing adoration can oftenbe mistaken for mockery or contempt. Who but a worshipful fan would lavish quiteso many dots on the loving delineation of these greats' every pimple andwrinkle?… (more)