Comics and Comix

[Big Frank]

There's an animated series on tubi called The Freak Brothers, based on the The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers underground comix started in the '70s by Gilbert Shelton. Wikipedia says, "The lives of the Freak Brothers revolve around the procurement and enjoyment of recreational drugs, particularly marijuana. The comics present a critique of the establishment while satirizing the counterculture."

In the cartoon, in 1969, during Woodstock and the "Summer of Love", three stoners living in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, Phineas, Franklin, and Fat Freddy, manage to obtain a chemical that will supposedly bring them to a new and ultimate high. The resulting high leaves them in stasis for just over fifty years, and they wake up in the year 2020.

It's like a fish out of water situation, but it's 3 freaks out of their element. And their cat too.

https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200022764

I have an issue of the Freak Brother comix and one of Fat Freddie's Cat, plus a collected issue. They used to sell these at head shops, along with paraphernalia for smoking tobacco, because it was illegal to sell drug paraphernalia. They placed signs next to the bongs and pipes stating that the products sold are "for tobacco use only" or "not for use with illegal substances". They sold a lot of T-shirts and posters and stuff like that too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers

There are 3 mini episodes on YouTube. Language warning for the videos- foul language.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTpLF8COYg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1RMuPpGYnk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB20_GvGXxY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FSLv3V2RzI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah-uikFRW40

[Big Frank]

When I dug out the Freak Brothers comix I came across my Fred And Frank comics from Germany. Charles Kaufman was a Captain in the Air Force. In addition to his regular job he drew cartoons for Overseas Life magazine, later renamed Overseas magazine. I thought the cartoons were in Stars and Stripes newspaper, but it looks like I was wrong. Here's a picture of my book, and a picture of a book for sale on Amazon that has it on the cover. It looks like it's a reprint of the same thing, 40 years later. Here are a couple of pages I can really relate to. And a Barracks Rat Certificate. I think mine is filled out.

https://www.fredandfrank.com/

You can read it for free at isssuu.

https://issuu.com/kaufmanart/docs/kaufman-fredandfrank