Drew Friedman: Obama portrait for The New Yorker

Posted by David Pescovitz, January 20, 2009 9:27 AM |
The First
My favorite living portrait artist, Drew Friedman, created the magnificent cover art for this week's New Yorker. The painting is titled "The First." The New Yorker, January 26, 2009
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#1 posted by sans comic , January 20, 2009 9:49 AM

Outstanding.

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#2 posted by TiwazTyrsfist , January 20, 2009 9:53 AM

Ah the New Yorker...

I seem to remember a previous New Yorker cover of Obama. Oh, wait, here it is!

http://blog.syracuse.com/shelflife/2008/07/nycover2.jpg

Waffle, waffle, waffle, waffle, waffle...

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#3 posted by Lemon , January 20, 2009 10:17 AM

I didn't know men in wigs could be so hot.

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#5 posted by Anonymous , January 20, 2009 11:26 AM

The mole is on the wrong side though. You would think the New Yorker could get that right...

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#6 posted by sans comic , January 20, 2009 11:44 AM

Yo Anon #5, I think the mole is accurate.. for Obama.

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#7 posted by pduggie , January 20, 2009 11:56 AM

He looks like those other presidents on the dollar bills.

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#8 posted by sonipitts , January 20, 2009 1:38 PM

This has a whole new layer of meaning after listening to his inaugural address...

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#9 posted by TheChickenAndTheRice , January 20, 2009 2:18 PM

It's going to be awfully boring if the next President is just a standard, old white dude.

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#10 posted by jacques45 , January 20, 2009 3:28 PM

Am I the only one who would like to see the entire Judiciary wing go back to wearing the wigs and make the lawyers dress in robes and wigs as well?

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#11 posted by dizzid , January 20, 2009 6:14 PM

If you ask me, Barack Obama is one of the Founding Fathers! Lucky for us, he's here now and not 250+ years ago.

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#13 posted by mriles , January 20, 2009 6:37 PM

shouldn't the wig be black?

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#14 posted by Tony Moore , January 20, 2009 6:39 PM

i'm all for Obama, and i love Friedman, but is it just me or does he look slightly walleyed in this portrait?

-T

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#16 posted by tony421 , January 20, 2009 8:43 PM

I remixed it. ALL CREDIT GOES TO DREW FRIEDMAN. Love it.

http://xs135.xs.to/xs135/09042/obama363.jpg

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#18 posted by jsully , January 21, 2009 7:40 AM

Anyone can get a free copy of this New Yorker cover in return for registering with NewYorker.com.
http://www.newyorker.com/user/registration?mbid=nyremail

I signed up a couple weeks ago, and have not been spammed yet, so this seems like a pretty good deal.

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#19 posted by Art , January 22, 2009 9:26 AM

This post is fantastic.

Aside from the brilliant technical artistry, the emotions that that work evokes are so very long overdue.


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#20 posted by joliesgrrl , January 22, 2009 3:50 PM

Drew Friedman completely stole this drawing from Lalo Alcaraz. The New Yorker and Friedman owes an explanation to Lalo A.S.A.P!!!

Lalo Alcaraz drawing was online before this issue was prdocued. The image also appeared in a color Sunday cartoon in his daily nationally syndicated La Cucaracha comic strip, as seen locally in the Los Angeles Times, and in over 65 newspapers nationwide.

http://a246.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/107/l_6dd9e4ec7b3c8809120b6a5c51c5e82d.jpg

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#21 posted by angry island girl , January 22, 2009 4:33 PM

this New Yorker cover is a RIP OFF. Mexican American cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz had done this already way back during the campaign...
STOP STEALING FROM THE BROWN PEOPLE!!

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#22 posted by laloalcaraz , January 24, 2009 1:36 AM

I wonder in all my post Obama unity haze, if anyone can comment on my Obama/Washington piece, titled "Obama Washington," from February 2008, which ran in my editorial cartoon space at Universal Press Syndicate.

thanks
lalo alcaraz

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#23 posted by laloalcaraz , January 24, 2009 3:55 AM

And in my daily comic strip, La Cucaracha, and on cagle.com, and on Yahoo too.
lalo

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