Week Six: Underground Comics

For this week I read Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy’s Cat, Zap Comics, and Tits and Clits. My favorites were the Zap Comics and Tits and Clits because some of the stories were hilarious. In one comic from Zap, people were getting hit with meatballs and it was the best. I also enjoyed the surrealist comics that seemed to be ads for Mr. Peanut and Camel Cigarettes among other things. A couple of comics from Tits and Clits featured a woman who had abnormally large breasts that she would beat men up with, the stories were really funny and was my favorite series of the comic. All of the stories were about women taking charge of their own bodies and what they did with them. In other comics its more what men would want to read and the man having control over a women’s body and using it to their own needs. Personally these kinds of comics are a bit to crude for me and some of the art (mostly all) makes me cringe due to the offensiveness, bad anatomy and some really ugly people. I wouldn't be surprised if the artists on SpongeBob were influenced by these comics because the art reminds me of the horrifying detailed close-ups of some of the characters and environments.