 Friedman served as comics editor for the "National Lampoon" in 1991, introducing the works of Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware to a wider audience.Since 1994, he has provided regular front-page illustrations for the "New York Observer".In 2006, Friedman published "Old Jewish Comedians" (Fantagraphics Books), a collection of portraits of famous and forgotten Jewish comics of film and TV in their old age, about which Steven Heller, in the New York Times Book Review, wrote