GILBERT SHELTON

And among that pantheon of reprobates with pens who brought forth the underground comics of the 1960's and 1970's was one Gilbert Shelton, creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Wonder Warthog, one of the silliest and most consistently hilarious of the parody superheroes, so when I went to England in 2005 for the Bristol Con, I was surprised to meet Shelton in the flesh and gush over how much I enjoy and admire what he does. Now that the underground has been more or less absorbed into the mainstream with artists like Peter Bagge and Johnny Ryan representing in the name of outrageous material, pioneers like Shelton are mostly remembered by us aging kiddies whom they unknowingly corrupted, so it was a real treat to obtain this sketch from the man himself.