In taking a look at the underground comics and Robert Crumb I forgot how iconic he was for me when I was younger. Mr. Natural and Keep on Truckin where comics that I remembered the but didn't actually remember the content, I just remember it being funny but not why. My long board actually features R. Crumb keep on truckin'.
Anyways on topic I find that mr. Naturals cynical ways and bad temper to be fairly entertaining. It was easy and quick to read through being that their are not a lot of words just mostly a pictorial story. I find that R. Crumb's imagery to remind me of popeye. Maybe it's the strokes of his drawings and the gestures, but it really struck me when I was reading through Mr. Natural. Honestly it reminded me most of my dad's attitude and all of the other men that I use to interact with when I worked at 3M. I love the jokes and the crude attitude of all of them, the jokes are very similar to the ones that run through the underground comics. I like the simplicity of how crumb illustrates Mr. Natural to his other comics, it feels more like the mind of a "guru" Yes some of the backgrounds get more complicated from panel to panel but the text still has simplicity. I also love the simplistic use in color, their is a very small color palet. I loved that attitude of Fat freddy's cat haha...It made me giggle and reading through it at times it was more like reading a poem or almost the lyrics to a song. Only because it had a rhythmic way of being written and spread out through the panels. I really like the back and fourth play of the looseness in the drawings. His owner fat freddy is totally was the type of man that doesn't remember the 60's today. Fat freddy has some really expressive faces and uses them often, He interacts with everything and everyone. Mischief is definitely his nitch. I loved it when he plays the detective and while answering the phone he smashes his head between his women's breasts. haha... the jokes and attitudes are very entertaining. I feel that underground comics for the time where just kind of branching out into how the media is run today, yes that makes the shock value for our generation less powerful today than it was then but it can still be entertaining and respected. Glancing over a quiet a few of the underground comics they were all crude, sexual, and embraceful of the time period wither it was mind altering for the writers or not.
