What me worry ? Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
+ Fritz the Cat + Fat Freddy’s Cat. ………
Farrrrr Out! Highbrow Europe marks its twentieth anniversary
as the home-in-exile of San Francisco’s most famous underground
artists this year — and both parties still regard the arrangement
as a honeymoon.
The first to settle in was cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, creator
of such memorable hippie-era Haight Ashbury characters as the
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Wonder Warthog and Fat Freddy’s
Cat.
Shelton and his wife, literary agent Lora Fountain, decamped
from the Haight two decades ago to take up residency in Spain,
then moved on to France, with frequent jaunts to the country
homes of fumettisti friends in central Italy. Shortly after them
arrived former San Francisco underground luminary Robert Crumb,
who fathered Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural.
Shelton and Fountain are expected to make an appearance in Barga
later this year, according to barganews sources in the comic
book industry………..read
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