Download The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus Gilbert Shelton 9780861661596 Books

Product details Paperback 624 pages Publisher Fanfare; 1st edition (September 20, 2008) Language English ISBN-10 0861661591

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus Gilbert Shelton 9780861661596 Books Reviews

• All the memories that had been previously washed away by bong water. We bought these comics as they came out in the 70's at the local head shop. Our collection eventually burned in our old chicken coop based "Fort" in northern WI along with all our nudie mags and Sabbath albums. Imagine my juvenile burnout joy when I found this incredible collection on ! It contains EVERYTHING I barely remember, plus more...even Fat Feddy's Cat strips at the bottom of the pages. Get out your reading classes and Geritol and enjoy this incredible flashback to better days.
• I was born in 1977 and thus was too young to have any first-hand experiences with the 60-70s youth/drugs counter-culture, but my parents were semi-hippies at the end of that era. I was probably only around 7 or 8 when I first got into and read my father's small collection of Rip-Off Press comics and loved every minute of them, though I didn't quite get all the jokes, I could infer enough. Profanity! Nudity! Drugs! An evil version of Garfield the cat! I've been a fan ever since. I never touch drugs myself, but why would I need to when I can get high on laughing from reading and rereading the misadventures of Fat Freddy, Phineas, and Freewheelin' Franklin?
  
  Once I learned of this product's existence I knew that I had to buy one for myself. But I let my dad read it first. He deserved it.
• I've always been a fan of Gilbert Sheldon's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers since the early 70s, having to hide the comics from my parents for years. This tome is as thick as an old fashioned phone book and has ALL the adventures of our drugged out hippie trio. BUT one complaint I do have is some of the printing is hard to read cause its now smaller than the original comic release, you literally need a magnifying glass to read, especially with the Fat Freddy's Cat strips at the bottom.
  
  The one thing I do ask, they have a page of the alledged stop action film that was made in 2000, WHERE IS THIS FILM?? Not even IMDB has info on it!!
  
  I'm deducting a star for the difficult to read printing on some of the pages, otherwise I love it!
• I adore gilbert sheldon and the freak bros; especially as he developed his craft later in his career. they are LOL, BUT I bought this for the kindle...bad, BAD mistake the format and fonts are all way too small to read without a struggle. I am going to try fiddling with my settings on the kindle but the windows reader doesn't seem to have any active tools for enlarging the text. I will come back and retract all this IF I can figure out how to fix it. for the time being 5 stars because it's gilbert sheldon...NO stars because I can't read it. (I'll post 4 stars just so I don't hurt fat freddie's feelings).
• What a great book. All the freak brothers comix in one big lavish volume.If you are or ever were a Freak Brothers fan, look no further than this huge graphic novel. Never fear fat freddy's cat fans, he is included in this volume and just as funny as I remembered. What makes this so special,(to me at least) is the fact that these comics have been hard to come by and sorely missed. Not just for the gut busting hialrity they provide, at the antics this trio and thier cat get up to but that they bring me right back to the days, when I first picked up thier comics,in the 70's. It has 624 pages total and two sections in full color, on coated stock paper. The other pages are in black and white. There is a removable dust jacket which has a different illustration than the book cover(a coated stock paperback type cover)which is a nice touch.The only thing I would have done differently is to have the cover of each issue and then follow with that issues original stories in order.The way they set it up I'm not sure what order it is in. This may be nit picking but remember, I had the original issues.I highly recommend this.You will not be disappointed.
• I bought this as a nostalgia gift for my husband because he had fond memories of the comics from his younger hippie days. Unfortunately, we now live in a state where pot is illegal and he said it just reminds him of how much he wishes we were still living in Colorado.
• Just a tad smaller than a standard comic book size, but wonderful printing and good over all readability. A bargain - complete - it's 624 pages FCS ! -) To get ALL the R Crumb stuff in reprint you'd have to spend hundreds (and I like Shelton lots better anyway).
• I am of a generation who came of age during the underground comics heyday and stoner humor like the Freak Brothers cracked me up in those halcyon days of my youth.
  So, to take a walk down memory lane, I bought this book from one of the third party sellers and was not disappointed. It's a big heavy well made book with B&W and some color adventures of Fat Freddie, Phineas, and Freewheelin' Frank.
  Still got a laugh from some of those long-forgotten comics that brought back pleasant memories.