The decade of the 1960s saw the rise of underground newspapers, which often carried comic strips, such as Fritz the Cat and The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

No. 1 of the cult underground comic strip The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers which dealt with the adventures and lifestyles of three fictional hippies

Gilbert Shelton created perhaps the most enduring of underground cartoon characters, " The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers ", whose drugged-out exploits held a hilarious mirror up to the hippy lifestyle of the 1960s.

This includes the work of Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, and includes Mr. Natural ; Keep on Truckin '; Fritz the Cat ; Fat Freddy's Cat ; Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers ; the album cover art for Cheap Thrills ; and contributions to International Times, The Village Voice, and Oz magazine.

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are a trio of underground comic strip characters created by the U. S. artist Gilbert Shelton.

The first compilation of their adventures, The Collected Adventures of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, had its first printing in 1971 and has been continually in print ever since.

In 1972, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers appeared in the full-length XXX-rated adult film Up in Flames.

* The Complete Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Volume One ( 2001 ) ISBN 0-86166-146-X ( reprints comic books 0 through 7 and 12 )

* The Complete Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Volume Two ( 2003 ) ISBN 0-86166-149-4 ( reprints comic books 8-11 and 13 ) ( note: according to the reverse title pages, the second volume has the same ISBN 0-86166-146-X )

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) This is a reference to the comic strip Fat Freddy's Cat, a spin-off from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers ; in the original comic, the quirkafleeg was an obscure ritual in a foreign country, required to be performed upon the sight of dead furry animals.

He is the creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, Wonder Wart-Hog, Philbert Desanex, Not Quite Dead, and the cover art to The Grateful Dead's 1978 album Shakedown Street.

After a strip named Feds ' n ' Heads ( published by Print Mint ), Gilbert created his most famous strip, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers in 1968, and a spin-off strip, Fat Freddy's Cat in 1969, when he also co-founded Rip Off Press.

A new Wonder Wart-Hog story appeared in Zap Comix # 15 ( 2005 ), and his Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are reportedly being turned into a stop-motion animated film.

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Gilbert Shelton's legendary Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic strip began in The Rag and was republished all over the world.

( both 1993 ), Own Goals and Gaffs 2, Best Short Corners ( both 1994 ), Fabulous World Of Freak Football ( 1995 ) and The Glorious Return Of Own Goals And Gaffs ( 2009 ).

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The biographical film of 1947, The Fabulous Dorseys describes sketchy details of how the brothers got their start from-the-bottom-up into the jazz era of one-nighters, the early days of radio in its infancy stages, and the onward march when both brothers ended up with Paul Whiteman before 1935 when The Dorsey Brothers ' Orchestra split into two.

Late in 1968 the band released a concept album called The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, in which the group pretended to be 11 different bands ( with names including ' The Bigg Brothers ', ' Nature's Children ', ' the US Teens featuring Raoul ', and ' the Fabulous Dawgs '), each with a song in a different genre.

Jacques Rougeau had previously worked for the WWF both as a tag team wrestler with his brother Raymond Rougeau as The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers and later on as a singles wrestler under the name The Mountie ( the Quebecers have since been sometimes confused with the Rougeau Brothers ).

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* " Summertime ", by My Chemical Romance from Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

Absolutely Fabulous grew from a French & Saunders sketch called " Modern Mother and Daughter " ( from series 3 episode 6 ), which starred Jennifer Saunders as the mother ( named ' Adrianna ') and Dawn French as the daughter, already named Saffron.

* ' Bl / ind ', a company from My Chemical Romance's 4th studio album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

It used elements from To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat, though it replaced the books ' hero, Sir Richard Burton, with an American astronaut and King John of England with Nero as the villain.

The names themselves come from Edmondson's and Mayall's own nicknames for each other ; many of Mayall's characters are referred to by some variation of the name " Richard " and " Eddie " is taken from " Eddie Monsoon ", Edmondson's nickname since University, which is a play on his then stage name, Ade Edmondson ( compare Edina Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous, who is called " Eddie " by her friend Patsy, and is played by Edmondson's Comic Strip fellow and wife Jennifer Saunders ).

Having appeared in an episode of French & Saunders in 1988, from 1992 June Whitfield played Mother / Gran in Jennifer Saunders ' sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.

In 2009, she made a guest appearance in Kingdom and published an updated autobiography, At a Glance ... An Absolutely Fabulous Life, a collection of scrapbook pictures from her life and career.

Screen capture of the pianist Art Tatum from the film The Fabulous Dorseys ( 1947 )

Some rock groups from the South, such as Georgia's R. E. M., The B-52's, Widespread Panic, and Black Crowes, Florida's Sister Hazel, Blind Melon's Mississippian lead guitarist, and Texas's Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Joe Ely incorporated Southern musical and lyrical themes without explicitly allying with any Southern rock movement.

During the " talk " era the station, between 1993 and 1996, tried to launch a hot talk format on the station, acquiring J. R. Gach from WGR as the afternoon drive show and established syndicated hot talkers The Howard Stern Show ( by this time now almost exclusively on the FM dial ), G. Gordon Liddy, Laura Schlessinger, The Fabulous Sports Babe, Tom Leykis and ( briefly, before Gach's arrival ) Don and Mike.

More subtle uses of alter egos can be seen in artists who redefine their image for an album, such as Christina Aguilera as Xtina and the members of My Chemical Romance as members of an outlaw gang known as the Fabulous Killjoys, and artists who describe their stage personalities as different from their private ones, such as Beyoncé Knowles ' identity as Sasha Fierce, Katy Perry's identity as Kathy Beth Terry in music video " Last Friday Night ( T. G. I. F.

My Chemical Romance's song " Vampire Money " taken from their album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys released on 22 November 2010 features the lyric ' glimmer like Bolan in the morning sun ', referencing Marc Bolan.

Broadcasts of Jimmy Dorsey and The Fabulous Dorsey Orchestra on NBC Bandstand survive from December 25, and December 31, 1956.

Edmunds spent the 1980s collaborating with and producing an assortment of artists, from Paul McCartney to King Kurt, and from Stray Cats and Fabulous Thunderbirds to Status Quo.

The 1961 Czechoslovak film The Fabulous Baron Munchausen combines characters and plot elements from the Verne novel with those of the stories of Baron Münchhausen and Cyrano de Bergerac.

The film starred Kate Beckinsale as Flora, Joanna Lumley ( also famed from her role as Patsy in the British TV comedy " Absolutely Fabulous ") as her friend and mentor Mary Smiling, Rufus Sewell as Seth, Ian McKellen as Amos Starkadder, Eileen Atkins as Judith, Stephen Fry as Mybug, Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Beetle, and Angela Thorne as Mrs Hawk-Monitor.

Ronnie James and guitarist Troy Gonyea from The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Marc Ford from The Black Crowes toured, to considerable acclaim, with him in England in 2009, with the addition of Darian Gray on drums, as part of the promotion of Potato Hole.

Metcalf has made guest appearances on Absolutely Fabulous, Malcolm in the Middle, My Boys, Dharma & Greg, Frasier, Without a Trace, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and Monk ; she was nominated for the Emmy Award as Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series for both of the latter two listed roles.

He routinely takes advantage of his friends, framing them for crimes, robbing them, stealing Fry's blood on more than one occasion, stealing Fry's power of attorney, using Fry's body to smash open a window, stealing jewelry from Amy, as well as using Zoidberg in various get-rich-quick schemes, although it is probable he does not consider Dr. Zoidberg a friend since in " Obsoletely Fabulous " Bender begged the 1X Robot to " save ( his ) friends and Zoidberg " ( Though it is seen that he helps Zoidberg from time to time, as seen in " That's Lobstertainment !").