Customer Reviews

Far freaking out, man! - By: IanW, 24 Sep 2008
Sorry, couldn't help that & if I hadn't used that title I'm sure someone else would have.

This book brings back memories of the early 70's when I had long hair & regularly visited a head shopin Newcastle's arcade where I bought my first Grateful Dead t-shirt (Skull & Roses, what else?) & picked up the occasional copy of The Furry Freak Brothers, all long since gone missing.

Along with Crumb's Fritz the Cat, the Freak Bros were the best known characters, & the longest lived, to come out of the underground comics movement of the late 60's. The reason being they were brilliantly written, outrageously funny, perceptive, satirical, scathingly cynical about just about everything, & so on. The detailed distinctive & appealing cartoonish style didn't hurt either.

Now although the core joke is that of the FB's constant search for drugs (followed by sex), the stories themselves ranged widely across all aspects of the counter-culture & the world, music, capitalism, government agencies, revolution, movies, comics, & extreme violence. Oh & let's not forget the Fat Freddy's Cat strip & said cat's constant search for food (preferably live & screaming) & place to use as a toilet (shoes & hats being good). Despite being of their time, the stories remain as fresh & funny as the day they were first published.

Over 600 pages, 224in colour with covers & posters & other odd stuff, & a brief history of the strip, this is a bargain & a genuine masterpiece of the comic form. This is just great fun from the first to last pages & an essential purchase. It's even better than drugs, man (or so I'm told.)