Friday, August 28, 2009

Hepcat Hermit Handbooks: Baby Boomer Comics

This is essential reading for today's discerning Hepcat Hermit. A guide to the comics of the 1960's. For the Hepcat Hermit, the sixties are sort of an cultural home base. A good deal of our favourite movies, music and comics were made at that time. It's a focal point.

Full of lavish illustrations, trivia, and goodnatured jibes about the era's excesses - for want of a better word, because without those "excesses" it would not be the era it was. Those excesses are just enough for me. Maybe I should say "necessities". Sections on fave rave topics such as Herbie Popnecker, Zatanna, and of course talking gorillas. Always, always talking gorillas. As Samuel Johnson once meant to say, a man who is tired of talking gorillas is tired of life. And as Samuel Jackson once said, "English, motherf**cker! Do you speak it?" To which Grodd replied, "Yes, dirty human."

Thanks to the Hepcat Honey who gave me this as a gift! It is cherished.

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