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EDIT #1 - I wrote this review a few weeks ago and I call up I was trying for some sort of a hippiespeak vibe that really didn't work. Lesson learned. Don't lose focus with a review.

Way, way back in the twenty-four hour period, man, this dude named Gilbert Sheldon took it upon himself to brainstorm a little comic strip called "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers." At present this here dude Sheldon lived in Austin, Texas, which is the State Upper-case letter and a big college boondocks, harboring the mighty University of Texas. The Freaks proved

EDIT #one - I wrote this review a few weeks ago and I remember I was trying for some sort of a hippiespeak vibe that really didn't work. Lesson learned. Don't lose focus with a review.

Style, fashion back in the mean solar day, human, this dude named Gilbert Sheldon took it upon himself to begin a lilliputian comic strip called "The Fabled Furry Freak Brothers." Now this hither dude Sheldon lived in Austin, Texas, which is the State Capital and a big higher town, harboring the mighty University of Texas. The Freaks proved to exist a fun little gig, and equally they got more than and more popular and were getting published in wider and wider circles….well, homo….ol' Gilbert Sheldon packed up his Freaks and his Texas Tea Leaves and moved away from there….but not to Beverly Hills, that is…..no, human. Sheldon started his Ain comics publishing company in Hippie Central back in 1969, San Francisco. Rip Off Press, as it was called, was made specifically to produce original comics, thus spreading the discussion of the Freaks far and wide to those in the know.

Now the Freaks appeared in overground publications, too….like "Playboy" and "High Times," stuff similar that. And so betwixt that loftier falutin' exposure and the directly sales to the underground shops….well, my main man Gilbert Sheldon had him a hit and a coin making car on his hands.

EDIT #2 - Somewhere in the mid '80s I was living with my girlfriend and her husband and yeah you lot read that correct and no I'one thousand not going to take the time explicate information technology here. Anyhoo, her hubby actually KNEW Gilbert Shelton and was on a first name ground with him. He was an gorging collector of Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy'due south Cat, and I suppose this is where I had my first existent encounters with said characters. Shelton had been long gone from Texas by then, only it was interesting to know that I had that one degree of separation…..

See, the Freaks were meant to spoof off of the standard image of the unwashed hippie AND they were a poke in the middle to what was so chosen….wait for it…..the ESTABLISHMENT. And as an contained comix publication…..well, the Freaks were not jump by whatever "Comics Code" conventions or any of that kind of shit. Drugs and nudity and harsh language were pretty much the norm for our friends in the comics pages and…..wait…..I guess I need to introduce yous to the three main Freaks on this long foreign trip.

You have Freewheelin' Frank, who always wears his trademark cowboy hat and boots and has a long blonde ponytail stretching down his back. At present Frank is the smartest of the Brothers, but that ain't sayin' much, as the cumulative IQ of these guys probably only barely breaks three digits. Merely Frank is mayhap a bit older, a bit more seasoned, a bit more "street" than his buddies.

You accept Phineas Phreak, a mad scientist who seems to channel Abbie Hoffman in looks and temperament. He has a ton of brains simply picayune in the way of mutual sense, so his plots usually go amiss, causing problem for the boys.

And finally, you have old Fatty Freddy himself, a beer-guzzling snack-hound who simply wants to lay back and groove, man. No sweat comin' off of this erstwhile male child, nope. He is content to laze around and hitting the piping and take things easy, except when it's his plow to go a job and bring home some rent and weed coin.

The boys alive in diverse depression-rent digs and occasionally take road trips to alleviate the colorlessness. All of the action is centered around drugs and possibly some sex hither and there, and they spend a lot of time running from the simply existent recurring police force presence in the stories, Norbert the Narc. Oh, and Fat Freddy has this run downward one-time feline, chosen "Fat Freddy's Cat," who gets to star in his own adventures from time to fourth dimension. A bit tamer than Fritz, the cat does manage to have some fun while hashing information technology out on a continual basis with the cockroach population that always seems to follow the Freaks wherever they go.

And so what I'1000 reviewing here is a collection of strips that appeared in "High Times" mag, with one piece that appeared in "Playboy." This entire mishmash of crudely fatigued hedonism is titled "Thoroughly Ripped With the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers." Most of the gags are pretty curt, the lone exception existence a road trip odyssey entitled "The $29.95 SF to NYC Non-Stop Whiteline Cannonball Limited." Only everything here is funny in the style that about clandestine comics of that era were funny. These are basically tributes to the mighty triumvirate of sexual practice and drugs and rock 'n' gyre, and it's all fifty-fifty funner when you are ripped off of your gourd on some sweet leaf. I'll give a fleck of credit where credit is due hither, and mention that marijuana and cocaine are the drugs of choice for our wayward Freak Brothers. Sheldon intentionally excluded harder drugs like heroin from the strip, having seen the destructive quality of smack in the streets of San Francisco.

To engagement there have been fourteen bug of the "Freak Brothers" comic produced, and a plethora of collections and even an omnibus that collects all of the adventures into 1 mighty fine book. Just I prefer to go my Freak on piecemeal. It's fun to come across a collection or a devious outcome of the comic at a used book store or a garage sale somewhere. You can still find these Freaks at your favorite independent comix shop, besides. Along with "Dr. Atomic," the Freaks ready a loftier standard for chronicling the low behavior of an entire counterculture. Cheap, sleazy, drug-addled good times if y'all inquire me, human. Take hold of you some Freakiness and jump on downward the rabbit pigsty. But don't bogart that joint, ok, human being?

EDIT #3 - I'm throwing these lilliputian edits in considering this is a review that I'm non completely happy with, but I'm honestly not hugely motivated to trash the thing and start over. Some reviews are important enough to practise that with and this isn't 1 of them. But information technology's a cautionary tale. I don't like putting out stuff that I'm non completely satisfied with, but sometimes good enough is only gonna be expert enough. I know that I write these things for fun and ultimately for no 1 other than me, but I still feel like I have standards. Depression standards sometimes, maybe….but yet standards. And one solar day mayhap I'll tell you about that girlfriend and her husband. Skilful folks who I even so know and love to this twenty-four hours, fifty-fifty if nosotros have all gone off in different directions. I've had a fun life, kids. Maybe there is a trivial Freak Brother in all of u.s.a..

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