FREAK OUT!

PorterShed a Dó, Market Street

2.00pm, Saturday 4th October. Free Entry

We are honoured to introduce you to one of the true masters of the Underground Comix movement, Gilbert Shelton.

Breaking onto the scene in the early ’60s with superhero parody Wonder Wart-Hog, Gilbert really made it big with characters that fondly but honestly lampooned the archetypes of the very hippie counterculture he was part of: The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and its equally famous spin-off, Fat Freddy’s Cat. Their social satire and druggie humour left little doubt that these were a new kind of comic, definitely intended for an adult readership.

Gilbert will regale us with memories of wild times in conversation with another great of the under-ground comic scene, Hunt Emerson