Drew Friedman: Obama portrait for The New Yorker

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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laloalcaraz

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

Hires: http://i41.tinypic.com/34xj5hg.jpg
angry island girl

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!!
dizzid

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

Outstanding.
TiwazTyrsfist

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…
Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_oMeNJfLEI
Art

This post is fantastic.

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

shouldn’t the wig be black?
Tony Moore

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

-T
sonipitts

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

could be
http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/544/134/20080302/dyn005_original_664_918_pjpeg_2544134_52fe42fd9b6f9d0b34eb8cab1af213aa.jpg
Lemon

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

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.
TheChickenAndTheRice

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

FTW!
tony421

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

http://xs135.xs.to/xs135/09042/obama363.jpg
jacques45

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?
Anonymous

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

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

He looks like those other presidents on the dollar bills.
laloalcaraz

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
joliesgrrl

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