Gilbert Shelton
was a product of the San Francisco underground scene of the early 1970s for sure, but he was originally a product of Texas. An amiable, likable fellow who drew funny and entertaining comic strips sums his work up as such:
"I'm just an ol' 'artist' sittin' around and 'doin' man thing." as quoted in my History of Underground Comics from 1974. According to fellow comic artist Harvey Kurtzman he was 'the professional of the group.' His creations include a spoof of the Super-Hero genre with 'Wonder Wart Hog: the Hog of Steel' who seems to brutally murder each villain of the story in a clumsy ill-planned fashion, thwarting his efforts to bring anyone to justice.
BUT, what he is really well-known for is the creation of three Haight-Ashbury hippies, brothers in name but with very different personalities. They were known as The Freak Brothers:
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