I read some of the Mr. Natural comics, and they were actually pretty funny. It has the sort of humor that can be in newspapers about...half the time. Then on the other-hand, you have crudely draw demon woman who shows off her panties a little too much or the not-so-subtle sexual innuendoes. Then there's the language, but if you're as well acquainted with censorship as I am, you know it's just as easy to change the language around. What I feel the question here is, if this strip/book was converted into something more 'general audience' oriented, would it still have the same spirit? Certainly not. Also, Crumb might have wanted to make a comic at the time that wasn't restricted to being family friendly. Maybe he was tired of that crap and he wanted to make something that reflected more of him with little personal censorship. At the time, he managed to get away with it because of the underground comic movement. I looked over the Heroes of Blues, which was a very nice change of color both literally and figuratively. It was actually pleasant to see these pictures while reading non-biased info about these prominent figures; all of which might have been ridiculed through style or through how they might act in comics and graphic narratives back in the day. I was curious about why these were on the resource page under 'Underground Comix'. I know these illustrations were done by Crumb, but these are kind of like collectable cards. There's no real story that connects all the people on the individual cards, aside from sharing the same love and appreciation for Blues.
I read Girl Fight Comics...
It was pretty awesome. I can tell this is a comic for guys to spend some alone time with. And some girls. *shrug* I don't discriminate.
But it was still fun to read. The women here are conveyed with power, but it just seems to be lent to them for the sole purpose of being incredibly attractive to men. These women are badass. Though they've only killed colored men in this comic from what I've seen, they're always doing hardcore things while slipping in some gratuitous sexy moment in every short story. In the first one, for instance, Fox becomes the sexy wild woman of the jungle, but not before kicking ass and having sex with another woman. In SHE, the Amazon warriors that are being sought are all women, and of course they have this attraction to men and their habits and doing things that'll please a guy. Lots of boob-shots. The one before the last one was both strange and amusing. Space women traveling via giant penis end up on a planet where they've broken the law by exhibiting 'penis envy'. Yeeaaah.
On the other end of the spectrum, I read Gay Comix.
Which was actually very serious about its own content. I had a feeling it would be if the page that introduced the comic's themes actually admit that the staff that wrote these was gay as well. At first I thought it was a joke or something, but when I actually started reading the stories I was pleased to see that the subject was being taken seriously. I'm glad these were able to get around at all. It's a way of letting other people know, people who might have questions about their own sexuality, how people who are homosexual might live their lives. And there's an assortment of scenarios in this comic. Not all of them are there, but some. Ones that can matter just as much. And it does get funny, but never in a way that insults itself. I just found them to be really interesting. It was in complete contrast to the Girl Fight Comics.
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