All the Freak Brothers stories, book covers, posters and merchandise collected together in one big volume. Includes a share certificate offer for the upcoming animated movie. The definitive Freak Brothers book for years to come.
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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful
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Sorry, couldn't help that and 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 and regularly visited a head shop in Newcastle's arcade where I bought my first Grateful Dead t-shirt (Skull & Roses, what else?) and 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, and 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, and so on. The detailed distinctive and 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 and the world, music, capitalism, government agencies, revolution, movies, comics, and extreme violence. Oh and let's not forget the Fat Freddy's Cat strip and said cat's constant search for food (preferably live & screaming) and place to use as a toilet (shoes and hats being good). Despite being of their time, the stories remain as fresh and funny as the day they were first published.
Over 600 pages, 224 in colour with covers and posters and other odd stuff, and a brief history of the strip, this is a bargain and a genuine masterpiece of the comic form. This is just great fun from the first to last pages and an essential purchase. It's even better than drugs, man (or so I'm told.)
This book brings back memories of the early 70's when I had long hair and regularly visited a head shop in Newcastle's arcade where I bought my first Grateful Dead t-shirt (Skull & Roses, what else?) and 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, and 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, and so on. The detailed distinctive and 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 and the world, music, capitalism, government agencies, revolution, movies, comics, and extreme violence. Oh and let's not forget the Fat Freddy's Cat strip and said cat's constant search for food (preferably live & screaming) and place to use as a toilet (shoes and hats being good). Despite being of their time, the stories remain as fresh and funny as the day they were first published.
Over 600 pages, 224 in colour with covers and posters and other odd stuff, and a brief history of the strip, this is a bargain and a genuine masterpiece of the comic form. This is just great fun from the first to last pages and an essential purchase. It's even better than drugs, man (or so I'm told.)
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By M. Doga
Format:Paperback
This is everything I hoped for when ordering this book. It really is every Freak Brothers story. There are even a few that I had not seen before and I thought I had read them all over the years.It brought back lots of memories.
This is a must for any fan and those that like comic book art.
I am certainly not dissapointed.
Highly recommended.
This is a must for any fan and those that like comic book art.
I am certainly not dissapointed.
Highly recommended.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By R. F. Stevens
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Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
In the misty seventies I kept stumbling across these anarchic comics, but I was always too busy with work and a new family to search them out. Recently I was pointed towards this bumper book of all of the stories. To my delight it also includes many of the Fat Freddie's Cat footnote strips and several full page FFC stories.
About a third of it is in colour, two blocks of about 110 pages each in the 624. Tucked away at the back is Shelton's history of how he came to create the series, and how over the years he had help from friends in drawing it, and how they often struggled to keep it going.
It is hedonistic fantasy, a drug-fuelled dystopia, a reign of unlawful and rebellious anarchy, heavily shaded by guilt, paranoia, anxiety and craving. And yet we all knew someone who was just like one of the Freak 'brothers', and we all knew a cat just like Fat Freddie's. It is gloriously Politically Incorrect, and has set the standard all other anarchic comics must live up to.
There is one big problem, the format is smaller than the original publications, and some of the printing is too dense making the text tiny and difficult to read even in a good light - I borrowed reading glasses and a magnifier to read parts of it, mainly the early pages.
But it is worth every penny. I expect to be dipping into it again and again.
About a third of it is in colour, two blocks of about 110 pages each in the 624. Tucked away at the back is Shelton's history of how he came to create the series, and how over the years he had help from friends in drawing it, and how they often struggled to keep it going.
It is hedonistic fantasy, a drug-fuelled dystopia, a reign of unlawful and rebellious anarchy, heavily shaded by guilt, paranoia, anxiety and craving. And yet we all knew someone who was just like one of the Freak 'brothers', and we all knew a cat just like Fat Freddie's. It is gloriously Politically Incorrect, and has set the standard all other anarchic comics must live up to.
There is one big problem, the format is smaller than the original publications, and some of the printing is too dense making the text tiny and difficult to read even in a good light - I borrowed reading glasses and a magnifier to read parts of it, mainly the early pages.
But it is worth every penny. I expect to be dipping into it again and again.
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Freak brothers - still funny
Grew up with FFFB and the omnibus is a great way to re-read all the old stories. Some of the smaller prints in the book are a bit hard to read but it is a cheap book so it is... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Thomas Nielsen
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Ahhh! memories
Great book, brought back some great memories. As some have commented some of the writing is a little small in this format, but readable, if you liked them then chances are you... Read more
Published 4 months ago by P A Masters
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Christmas gift
This was purchased by me as a Christmas gift from a Wish List and was well received. Seems to be good fun
Published 4 months ago by D. M. Brennan
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not funny any more
My worldview has changed so much over the years, that I can no longer identify with anything in these comics. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. R. J. Paul
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Freak Brothers roll on.
A great collection of all the Freak Brothers comics! Looking at it with fresh eyes, it does contain the odd bit of propaganda with the police having powers to search you and put... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Jose Prados
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Vote for McGroot!
I first discovered the Freak Brothers in the mid '80s and always enjoyed their manic adventures and the subtle and not so subtle satire. Read more
Published on 23 April 2011 by Mr Shh.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perverted, subverted, but not alerted: tragi-comic loss of USA
More than 600 pages, about a third of them in colour. The whole enterprise is a bit like a printed version of Frank Zappa, including the early struggles with equipment, and uneasy... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2010 by Rerevisionist
4.0 out of 5 stars
Furry Freak Bros
As a kid in the Seventies & not a fan of Marvel superheros & Sci-Fi. My time at the comic store was spent with those Freak Brothers. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2010 by D. ROBINSON
4.0 out of 5 stars
freak bros
The book was easy to order and arrived very quickly,i would have no hesitation to use amazon again,
and always look on there first to order new books etc... Read more
and always look on there first to order new books etc... Read more
Published on 28 July 2010 by steve.c
4.0 out of 5 stars
Every Freak Brothers you could possibly want
Yep, this thing has all of them. My only complaints are that some of the comic strips are quite tricky to read because the page format is different from the original (or it could... Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2009 by Pendle
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