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Fantagraphics Publish Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Ahead Of TV Show

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Gilbert Shelton has been published by Knockabout Comics over the last few decades. But with a new animated series coming for the comic book created in 1967. Fantagraphics is to now publish a new Complete Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers collection beginning with The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: The Idiots Abroad and Other Follies.

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 under the series title The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Follies with the first volume being The Idiots Abroad and Other Follies. The Freak Brothers will also find a new audience in their upcoming animated series starring the voices of Woody Harrelson, Pete Davidson, John Goodman, and Tiffany Haddish. 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. Our first volume leads off with "The Idiots Abroad," a relentless novel-length tour de force of slapstick, screwball humor, showing off Shelton's gift for weaving together an intricate plot with droll dialogue and pitch-perfect visual timing.

Gilbert now says it was 1967, appearing in The Roy in Austin, Texas one year earlier than previously thought.

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 Bogotá. 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] Hergé in … accuracy and detail." Rounding out our first volume is another 70 pages of Freak Brothers short stories.

The new collection will begin publication by Fantagraphics in January 2022. Or you know, you can still find copies of the Complete Knockabout edition knocking around the place if you want to beat them to it.

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