Drew Friedman illustrated the cover for his brother Kipp's upcoming memoir, Barracuda In the Attic. Cartoonist Daniel Clowes calls it "A detail-rich account of an unfathomably awesome childhood in the epicenter of 1960s – 1970s New York culture, and further evidence of the magnificence of the Friedman genes." (What a talented family! Older brother Josh Friedman wrote a great book about sleazy history of Times Square.)
Whether shooting pool with the mobster Crazy Joey Gallo, attending a dinner party hosted by an aged but remarkably spry Groucho Marx, or simply playing doctor with a classmate in the former estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kipp Friedman led a colorful childhood. The youngest son of celebrated writer and satirist Bruce Jay Friedman, Kipp looks back fondly on the amusing and sometimes confusing events and encounters that helped shape his early life in this moving tribute to growing up among a family of creative artists — swept up in the whirlwind of the New York arts scene of the 1960s and '70s.
