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ISBN 978-1-56097-780-3

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Jesus is back in this groundbreaking collection from Harvey Pekar's Our Cancer Year collaborator. Underground comics were known for their satirical assaults on beliefs held dear by middle America. None was more witty or biting than the very first underground comic ever published - Frank Stack's The Adventures of Jesus. Stack's controversial strip first saw print in the Texas counterculture publications, The Charlatan and The Austin Iconoclastic, and the University of Texas humor magazine, The Texas Ranger. In 1964, Texas Ranger editor Gilbert Shelton (who would later go on to create the little known Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) made 50 photocopies of about a dozen strips, stapled and collated the pages, designed a cover and distributed it to friends around campus. In this witty addendum to the New Testament, Jesus fulfills his promise "to reward the just and punish the unjust," yet returns to Earth with remarkably little fanfare. He soon realizes he may have postponed his second coming a bit too long, arriving when the planet has fallen into a dangerously advanced state of decrepitude, i.e., the late 20th Century. Nonetheless, Jesus is determined to carry out his sacred obligation. Fantagraphics Books is proud to collect, for the first time, over 40 years worth of The New Adventures of Jesus including a brand new story by Stack.

Artikel-Nr.: 101245

ISBN 978-1-56097-744-5

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Daly's earlier work has been described as "Tintin meets the Freak Brothers in the Cape of Good Dope." Indeed, Daly's cartoons, offbeat, hallucinatory, and often hilarious, seems descendant from and in some cases an amalgamation of the substance-induced work of Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso, and S. Clay Wilson, filtered through the artist's own unique vision and sense of the absurd. Stories alternate between full color and black-and-white and range from representational Jim Jarmusch-like scenarios to wild visual excursions, albeit linear ones.

Artikel-Nr.: 062750

Artikel-Nr.: PASTPAGE063027I

Comic book format with stapled spine. Some wrinkling & cover wear. Black & White cartoon pages. Pages are tight and clean. 10 X 6.75 size. Very Good

[Schlagwörter: Freak Brothers Comic]

Artikel-Nr.: 30471

unpaginated, [52pp., including covers], glossy covers, $2.50 cover price, b/w newsprint interior, drug-themed underground comic strips, including "Burned Again" and "Phineas Gets an Abortion.."

Artikel-Nr.: 57280