Grapevine

November, 1977

Furry FilmIt's a little too soon for the country's Freak Brothers fans to start holding their breath, but master cartoonist Gilbert Shelton has closed a deal with a movie producer to bring Phineas, Fat Freddy and Free-Wheelin' Franklin to the silver screen. Shelton is a former Texan turned San Franciscan who inadvertently pioneered the underground-comic phenomenon in the early Sixties by creating its first superantihero: Wonder Wart-Hog ("fearless, fighting, foulmouthed"), who still ba...