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[johnny9fingers]

Bought some books....


Which is the companion volume to



Both of which contain comic strips that were ur-texts for my generation. Which Freak Brothers character were you?

I also picked up this


which I can heartily recommend.

And this



Which is volume two of an history of erotic comics from the 70's onwards. The earlier stuff like the various cheaply produced Tijuana Bibles was covered in volume one.

Comments

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

OMG, Freak Brothers. LOL.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

For a middle-class boy of fourteen, from the suburbs of London, in 1976, when it was all a lot less sophisticated than now, the Freak Bros were impossibly strange. Though no longer avant-garde even at the time, those comics told of a different way of living to the one mapped out by my parents. Ergo I swapped the prospects of sitting my dinners at Inns of Court for a squat in Deptford.

It's awful when your parents are actually right.

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

Well, it was Fritz the Cat who threw my life off-course quite a few years before that tbh.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

At the time I found Fritz concerned with the sex side of things. The Freaks were, to my teenage mind, far more subversive.