Andy Friedman

Andy Friedman is a visual artist, musician, and writer. His work, in its various forms, has been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, GQ, Vanity Fair, Ebony, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, Golf Digest, The Paris Review, New York, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine (where his art has twice graced the cover), and The New Yorker, where his cartoons and award-winning caricatures of cultural luminaries have appeared since 1999. He has contributed more than twenty pieces of illustrated reportage for the magazine's web site, ranging from celebrity interviews and visual music reviews to travelogue and humor. As a musician, Friedman's three critically acclaimed studio albums of original songs have garnered him a reputation as a “gifted storyteller” (The New Yorker), “a hot live act” (NPR), and an artist “not to be overlooked" (AP). In 2021, Topps released “Spotlight70,” a 70-card set of Friedman’s ink and watercolor paintings of baseball cards culled from their archives.