Customer Reviews

Fantastical hilarious druggy hippies, great art and stories - By: A. J. Kirke, 11 Feb 2003
I've lost count of the number of times I've read the Freak Brothers cartoons. They were a favourite of mine when I was a hippy student. But reading them again now as a 33 year old "straight" non-drug-using IT Manager, I still find them great fun & very engrossing.

The Freak Brothers are 3 hippies who spend their lives doing drugs & getting into ridiculous adventures. For example: moving to the country on cocaine earnings, starting a gold rush, & ending up running the town; going to Mexico, getting locked up on false charges & meeting a great Mexican mystic; going into the movie business; trying to sell on radioactive material; etc... etc...

Each story lasts from one page to a whole comic length. The plots are wonderful, & full of little twists & turns. The 3 characters are distinct & hilarious, the "straight man" Freewheelin' Frank, the "stupid one" Fat Freddy, & the "geek" Phineas.

The cartoons are, of course, fantasy. Any real human beings doing the amount & variety of drugs that the Freak Brothers do, or living their lifestyle, would have been dead or totally insane within a decade of starting! (And certainly addicted with a few years...)

Although these are chaotic hippy comixin one sense, they are very orderedin another sense. They use standard but detailed cartoony art which is lovely to look at, easy to follow "non-surreal" plots - the skills of the writer & artist are great. It is these skills that really make the comics timeless, not their super-hippy nature. The drugs & "drop out" elements really serve as a fantasy-enabler, helping the Freak Brothers to do & get into the most amazing situations.

These are highly recommended for chaotic comedy comic reading. BUT, if you are a student, don't let these stories sway you into believing you can do loads of drugs with impunity!