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SPX Presents: DREW FRIEDMAN: VERMEER OF THE BORSCHT BELT

Limited-Edition T-Shirt Giveaway!
The first 15 attendees to present their tickets at the screening will each receive one free limited-edition T-shirt featuring a glow-in-the-dark Tor Johnson lovingly rendered by Drew Friedman.

For years, artist Drew Friedman has chronicled a strange, alternate universe populated by forgotten Hollywood stars, old Jewish comedians and liver-spotted elevator operators. Friedman grew up amid the New York literary scene of his father, writer Bruce Jay Friedman, but he was more at home with the Three Stooges, Car 54 and MAD magazine. This in-depth documentary traces the irreverent cartoonist’s evolution from underground comics to the cover of the New Yorker through interviews with Friedman’s friends and colleagues. It also features a rare peek into his private “Jewseum,” perhaps the world’s largest collection of artifacts devoted exclusively to Jewish comedians. DIR/SCR/PROD Kevin Dougherty; PROD Jordan Bochanis, Giancarlo Cairella, Walter Dickinson, William Dikel, Scott Eder, Ziggy Gruber, John Charles Hunt, Eileen McQueen, Chris Richter, Thom Shubilla, James Tieso, Farley Ziegler. U.S., 2024, color, 57 min. NOT RATED

Presented in partnership with the Small Press Expo
The Small Press Expo (SPX) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit created in 1994 to promote artists and publishers who produce independent comics. SPX hosts an annual festival that provides a forum for artists, writers and publishers of comic art in its various forms to present to the public comic art not accessible through normal commercial channels. For more info, visit smallpressexpo.com.