Underground Comics

     We took a look at Underground comics and their impact on the overall legitimizing aspect they brought to the Comic book. I found it interesting that they were not available to the general public by way of the conventional comic book shop. People had to seek them out at local head shops.

     I read a lot of Fat Freddy's Cat. It reminded me of Fritz the Cat. It was very raunchy in its delivery of the life and times of Fat Freddy's Cat, but I guess that is what made it "underground." There was no holding back on nudity and the throwing of fecal matter which did make me laugh. I enjoyed the local warfare between the Cat the Mice and the indigenous Cockroach battalion. 

     I also looked at a lot of Robert Crumb (who did much work for the Subgenius Foundation in the way of Illustrations). I read the Comic "Whiteman" in which a suburban man gets lost on a camping trip and gets hooked up with a yeti princess.... lots of beastiality here in a no holds barred... pardon the pun epic sex scene between man and Yeti. It pretty much summed up the whole midlife crisis in a nutshell, with a kind of twisted perspective I might add. 

     I enjoyed this section very much as I used to be very into Heavy Metal and found a way to dive back into it.