The Red Brick Times

Whooa! I just got sucked into a time warp! Gilbert Shelton has drawn his first Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers strip in some ten years - and he's amde it available on his site. The site also has links to Grass Roots Films who are making a stop-motion animated Freak Brothers movie. How cool. (Note: If you don't remember the Freak Brothers then there's probably a lot of things from those days you don't remember. And for good reason.)
Posted 9:41 AM by whatley (5) comments

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"Dope'll get you through times of no money better than money'll get you through times of no dope."
- Freewheelin Franklin

# posted by  whatley : July 06, 2006 9:52 AM
 
Hope he can do a little better than that with all the material available these days. Barfing and "ugliest balloon" prize are a little on the "Nancy and Sluggo" side of humor to have waited 10 years for.

# posted by  A. O. : July 09, 2006 11:00 AM
 
Yeah, I was hoping for something a bit more contemporary myself. He hasn't updated anything, including the low humor, which is kind of why I led the post with "time warp".

# posted by  whatley : July 09, 2006 12:54 PM
 
I looked at the "gallery" of FFFB characters. The topics are still low, but the archetypes (religious, political, psychological) are still current and applicable. Moral: low humor still exists, and is a least common denominator of public discourse.

# posted by  Andy : July 27, 2006 9:16 AM
 
Or: "Dreck will get you through times of no intelligence better than intelligence will get you through times of no dreck." I call the "cocktail party" into evidence to support the thesis.

# posted by  Andy : July 27, 2006 9:21 AM
 
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