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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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46 of 46 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.)
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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 be that I'm 20yrs older and my eye sight ain't want it used to be) and it weighs a bit, not healthy for reaing in bed.
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Happy memories, I think..., yes, definitely, I think...
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. Read more
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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 13 months ago by Mr Shh.
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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
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The Freak Brothers Omnibus
As it says on the cover, every freak brothers story rolled into one bumper package. A must have for all freak brothers fans.
Published on 26 July 2009 by J. R. Gordon
Freak Brothers Omnibus
Reproduction or printing is a little poor in places, with smudged captions and lost detail. Otherwise good value.
Published on 8 Jun 2009 by A. Palmer
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