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Esther Goetz & George McCoy
Esther and George “The Real” McCoy were good friends of Don and Lydia. George drove a New York Yellow Cab. Click here to view an article written by Al Hirschfeld in 1943 on George. A watercolor of...
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Don and Kay Thompson
Don once did a poster of Kay Thompson. And I found a telegram that Kay sent to him in April, 1948.
View ArticleA List of Don’s Books
To download this list as a PDF document, click on donfreemanbooklist.pdf. For Children: 1950 Chuggy and the Blue Caboose (by Don and Lydia Freeman), Viking Press. 1953 Pet of the Met (by Don and Lydia...
View ArticleGreat Shakes
Help! Talent and success are slipping away in Hollywood! No new ideas, Hollywood is loosing its touch! A well-known Hollywood producer has an idea. He goes to Saint Gabriel and makes a deal to loan out...
View ArticleSkitzy , the story of Floyd W. Skitzafroid
Great News for Skitzy! Drawn & Quarterly, the well-known high-quality publisher of comic books based in Montreal, has published a new beautiful hardback version of Skitzy. Don would surely be proud...
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Models and Masters
Guess the Master! Click on the title image on the right and the story will open. Then you can click through the story page-by-page. If you are interested in having a paper copy of this story for your...
View ArticleCome One, Come All
Come One, Come All 280 pages, Originally published by Rinehart & Co., Inc New York, 1948. Click on the image to the left or on the “next” button (up and to the right) to browse through some pages...
View ArticleDon and Children(‘s books)
Don published over 20 books for children in his lifetime and illustrated many others. Most of these were published by The Viking Press (now a division of Penguin USA). (A PDF of a list of all his books...
View ArticleDon on Broadway
After spending so much time in the standing room section making sketches, Don once got the chance to be on the Broadway stage himself! William Saroyan and Don were good friends. Saroyan wrote in a...
View ArticleDon and Jerome Myers
This image is from Don’s Newsstand Vol 1. No. 2 (April 1944). Don wrote: “Besides the many friends who miss him, I am sure not the least to be counted are the sidewalks of New York. There must be...
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Don and Beauford Delaney
This is a photograph of Beauford Delaney. On the back of this photograph, Beauford has written to Don and Lydia: “One winter day. Love, Beauford.” For Don’s illustrated biographical sketch of Beauford...
View ArticleDon and Al Hirschfeld
This is Al Hirschfeld’s caricature of Don for an exhibiton of Don’s work at the Museum of the City of New York in 1940. Don and Al must have been pretty wild buddies together. Recently, the curator of...
View ArticleDon and his Sketchbooks
Don always had a sketchbook in some pocket that he would automatically take out and start to draw, write, scribble in. Some photographs of Don’s sketchbooks are coming soon… In his semi-autobiography...
View ArticleThe all new DonFreeman.info
The new DonFreeman.info site is online! The old DonFreeman.info site stopped working a while ago and while the content was still accessible it no longer worked, graphically as well as technically....
View ArticleAbout Don – some biography
Don was born in San Diego, California, in 1908 and grew up in Chula Visa. He writes about his childhood in his humorous autobiographical novel Come One, Come All! in which he tells his own story of how...
View ArticleNew iPad App: Chalk Box
Don’s The Chalk Box Story is now available as an educational interactive app for iPad, made by Auryn Inc. If you would like to give it a try, please visit the App Store to download it, it’s great fun...
View ArticleAudio Downloads
Our partners and friends, Alan and Sharon Scofield have also refurbished their website click here to download Alan’s great readings of Don Freeman stories!
View ArticleGoodwin the goat
“Goodwin (the multicolored Goat)” (Gayelord was the goat’s original name) was never published during Don’s lifetime. It is a story about a goat who ate the colors of an artist working in the fields,...
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