Anybody here remember the Freak Brothers and....

[BlueJazz]

...Fat Freddy's Cat. Those who have never seen the comic books ...It was the adventures of 3 wacko doped-up dudes during the late 60's, early 70's. One of them had a Cat that would get pissed-off if he got locked up in the house all night and would proceed to do something "naughty" like shit in the brother's stereo headphones... The comics were a riot!

[bigmonkey]

1. I remember them well, and they were hilarious.

I also had a cat like that. It was the wildest thing. It had been malnourished as a kitten, and it just showed up in my house when I moved in. I think it had brain damage, really. One time a friend came to visit, and we very carefully kept the cat out of the room he was in because we feared how it would behave. When we were later on the way to breakfast we realized that his coat smelled like cat pee. He had left the door to the room open just long enough to get to the bathroom and brush his teeth, and the darn cat had popped into the room, peed on his jacket, and then fled, leaving only the olfactory trace.

(edit for grammar)

[BlueJazz]

3. "We realized his coat smelled like cat pee" LOL!

Also...Remember the "Cockroach General" ..The comic had all the roaches in the house as soldiers. I remember one line where a "Sargent Roach" came up to the General and says "We had lots of casualty's last night sir" ...the General said "No problem....One of the Humans will leave the cereal box open and by this evening we'll have a million to take their place"...Geez...

[charlie]

4. Haw!

Yeah, the one often drawn to look like MacArthur, I'd forgotten about him.

[charlie]

2. And Wonder Warthog!

Gilbert Shelton's 60s-70s work was unalloyed genius. He's still around, living in France, but seems more interested in collaborative efforts than working on his own anymore.

[argyl]

5. Also had a character called Oatwillie,whose name graced the

best head shop in Austin.

[Flubadubya]

12. How well I remember...

I was there in Austin during that "glorious age"... even remember when the Armadillo was right downtown. Freaky Deaky Days, those were!

Oh, and Oat Willie had the most rad boxers ever! Bwahaha!!!

Peace Bro.

:hippie:

[Ron Green]

6. Phineas, Fat Freddy, and Freewheelin' Franklin!

"Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."

Clang - Honk - Tweet

[Archae]

7. And Fat Freddie gets the munchies.

He goes apeshit in an all-night grocery store, and the other two carry him and some groceries out.

*CRASH* "Kreegah!" :D

And that memorable trip to Mexico, and meet Don Longjuan.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

9. Kreeeegaaahh!

Is he swinging an axe through an aisle of chips as he screams it? That's how I remember it. "Kreegah" remains one of my favorite words.

[Archae]

25. It was a hatchet.

And he yelled that while smashing through the window.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

26. okay then

[6000eliot]

8. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

10. Did you ever play Feds 'N Heads?

That was a great game.

My favorite Gilbert Shelton story was a little illustrated version of this song, origin unknown (to me):

Well I was born down south on a chicken farm near Nashville, Tennessee
T'weren't nobody there but a sky full of air, 17 billion chickens, an me
And then one day I said "hey hey hey, think I'll drop a little LSD"
Well it blew my mind
I got real kind
And set my chickens free

And there was
Chickens in the pasture
Chickens in the barn
Chickens in the cauliflower
Chickens in the corn
Chickens driving Cadillacs to Washington DC
When I set my chickens free

[B Calm]

11. I had a 1966 Volkswagon Micro Bus with the Freak Bros

painted on the rear. Amazingly I never got pulled over by the police, but then I never traveled down south with it..

[NNadir]

13. I remember them well. Fat Freddy's Cat was the only one with a brain.

I'll never forget when he liberated himself and cruised down the river musing to himself of how he was "escaping the oppressive social system of 'owners' and 'pets.'"

The Fabulous Furry Flying Freak Brothers ultimately proved useful to me in my struggle to stop smoking pot and get a life. At some point I realized that if I kept on living like them, I'd be like them.

[mdmc]

14. how is that struggle going?

I might join that fight someday!

[NNadir]

16. It's not a struggle at all anymore.

I have not been high on pot for over a quarter of a century, except for one embarrassing moment when I was playing in a nightclub, was convinced to lapse, did so, and played awfully the rest of the night, having difficulty moving between the various tunings that I use.

I don't miss a single thing about pot. Instead, I've become rather fond of having a mind.

I do look back upon the time of wasted health and wasted mind associated with being a pothead with some regret, but as MacBeth remarked under somewhat more odious circumstances, "What's done cannot be undone."

The Fabulous Flying Freak Brothers though were excellent comic relief in what was otherwise a depressing time in my life though, and I recall them fondly.

[mdmc]

24. good for you

:kick:

[bearfan454]

15. I remember the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

[Paladin]

17. Gilbert Shelton's Dad....

...taught English at my high school in Austin, TX. The father was a credit to his son. I have always loved the "Freak Bros." comic books deeply.

Greetings to the other old Austin heads hanging out hereabouts....

[woofless]

18. "Ya know? There's just one thing about Mexican food and beer."

Notorious Norbert gets his.

[DS1]

19. Funniest Cartoon Ever

.

[jandrok]

20. Yep! I also remember Dr. Atomic.......

Another good freak comic book from the same era. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers rocked!

[GCP]

21. The one where Fat Freddie's Cat was being worshipped by aliens

because his shit was the "purest form of space fuel ever found" OWTTE

OMG - hilarious.

[argyl]

22. Phineas is in a Mexican prison and tells his cellmate he was told to wait

for something called catorce anos. Asks his cellmate what that is and he replies, "Fourteen years."

Yeah, late 60s/early 70s Austin was a great place to be.Everyone was glad to be there.

Around 1970 the student body of UT actually voted to change the school mascot from a longhorn to an armadillo.Frank Erwin nixed that, but it would have really been a hoot if it had happened.At this time the 'Horns were either winning or losing the National Championship about every New Year's Day.

Armadillo World Headquarters; I was at the opening.Leo Kottke was the first act. They didn't even have a license to sell beer. You had to bring your own in. That really changed; I think they sold more beer than any venue in Texas for at least a couple of years.They tore it down,right? What a bummer. Should have been a shrine right up there with the Alamo.

[catmandu57]

23. My collection runs from #00 to #10

Plus collected works, Fat Freddies adventures, and Fat Freddie's cat.
Saddly they're all reprints the originals escaped years ago.
I've got a reprint of Dopin Dan, and an original Pudge The Girl Blimp.