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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: The Idiots Abroad And Other Follies

by Paul Mavrides and Gilbert Shelton
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/07/2022

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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are the most iconic and enduring underground comix characters ever created, having sold over 45 million comics in 16 languages. Fantagraphics is proud to announce that it is collecting all their drug-addled adventures in a new series of four volumes. Created in 1968 by Gilbert Shelton, widely recognized as one of the funniest cartoonists who ever lived, the Freak Brothers' rollicking and hilariously self-destructive escapades are comedic masterpieces of farce and satire.
The first volume leads off with "The Idiots Abroad," a relentless, novel-length tour de force of slapstick and screwball humor, showcasing Shelton's gift for weaving together an intricate plot with droll dialogue and pitch-perfect visual timing. The Brothers - Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas, and Fat Freddy - embark on a trip to Colombia to score some cheap dope (their guiding principle) but, as always, things go awry, and they are separated and scattered around the world - to Scotland, Moscow, Africa, South America, and the Middle East - where they encounter nuclear terrorists, slavers, pirates, and religious fanatics, yet somehow never seem to make it to Bogota. The Comics Journal named "The Idiots Abroad" as one of the "100 Greatest Comics of the Century" and The Guardian, citing its "graphic quality" called it "astonishing" and said it "recall[s] Herge in accuracy and detail." Rounding out our first volume is another 70 pages of Freak Brothers short stories.
The Freak Brothers, an animated series, set in modern-day San Francisco, is scheduled for release in 2021. The show stars the voices of Woody Harrelson, Pete Davidson, John Goodman, and Tiffany Haddish.
ISBN:
9781683965107
9781683965107
Category:
Graphic Novels
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-07-2022
Publisher:
Fantagraphics
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
160
Dimensions (mm):
273x191mm
Gilbert Shelton

Gilbert Shelton (b. 1940, Houston, Texas), a founding father of the underground comix movement, is the creator of the iconic comix characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, and Wonder Wart-Hog. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012. He has been known to sing and play piano for the Blum Brothers, a Paris-based rhythm and blues group.

He lives in Paris, France, with his wife and an ever-changing number of cats. Paul Mavrides (b. 1952), an enigmatic cartoonist, painter, and graphic artist, began collaborating with Gilbert Shelton on The Freak Brothers in 1978. He is a founding member of the Church of the SubGenius. In 1997, after a six-year legal battle, he won a landmark decision for artists' rights in California that established a legal equivalency between written-word authors and cartoonists.

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