Stories: Animal Camp; Fat Freddy Goes Back to Grade School; Freewheelin’ Frank in The Mellow Cab Man; The Story Of Phineas And The Organic Mechanic; Nerds; Grass Roots
Gilbert Shelton created the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers as an underground newspaper strip in the late sixties. The stars were brothers Fat Freddy, Phineas, and Freewheelin’ Frank Freak. These lovable druggies were always broke and they seemingly spent nearly all their waking time looking for drugs. “After all,” they held, “dope will get you through times with no money better than money will get you through times with no dope!”
Even read out of context from the San Francisco drug culture they reflected, the Furry Freak Brothers were truly funny. The strips were eventually collected in a series of regular comic books and became one of the most widely read underground comics ever published. They, along with titles like Fat Freddy’s Cat, became the mainstay of longtime underground publisher Rip Off Press.
48 page black and white comic with color covers Rip Off Press, 1980 We have various printings in stock
