Does anybody have links to sites that have more info about Hansen's work? or Adam's Apple Publishing in Chicago? Did Hansen and Lynch colloborate?
Here's one, not a whole lot of info though.
http://lambiek.net/artists/h/hansen_george.htm
thanks Rick, I have seen this... I really like Judy Tunafish, it reminds me of Crumb, and some other stuff has echoes of Moscoso. Just wondering where he fits in with the pantheon (don't know what that word means) of UG artists.
Hansen always struck me as a Crumb wanna-be. IMHO.
Hansen isn't too popular with the general UG crowd, it seems. I know in some of his later work he went even more "primitive" with his style which probably pushes some of the UG fans even further away. I like the stuff myself though.
He occasionally lists some of his old work on eBay and it seems like it's been a hard sell but if I had the extra dough I'd probably snap it up.
I see that Lynch did the cover for Purple Cat No. 1, 1973, from Adam's Apple.
And one of Hansen's books contains a strip by me and Spiegelman called SALLY THE ACTRESS, which was one of the funniest things we ever did. But it was so crazy that we had to put it in one of George's books...on account of it works better in that context.
Purple Cat: One of the great comic book covers.
Purple Cat: a mediocre underground comic book, IMO. There are a few good one-pagers (including an awesome one by Jay), but the comic is a bit too fractured for my tastes. Still, check it out if you want to see the nastiest drawing that I've ever seen from Justin Green!
As for George Hansen, he did one book that I really loved: Hard Times. It was an all-Hansen book from Adam's Apple. The comic includes a long story called "Mr. Bomdiddy", which features a stereotypical black man who escapes from prison and keeps getting chased by the cops. The writing and art is as politically incorrect as anything by R. Crumb, and nearly as funny.
I believe Adam's Apple publishing was a head shop in Chicago. There is an ad for their distributing company on the inside back cover of Hard Times.
He's got some nice stuff...
http://stores.ebay.com/gitfiddle-georges-music-store_Underground-comix_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ7246601QQftidZ2QQtZkm
There was Bijou, Roxy and Purple Cat. Bijou was the "a" stuff. Roxy was the "c" stuff and Purple Cat (the opposite of Yellow Dog) was the "d minus" stuff. All this stuff was rejected from Bijou...But some artists argued that it was good enough for Bijou. I didn't think so...so I put out these two other titles to prove it. And they sold accordingly. Roxy sold better than Purple Cat...But neither sold anywhere near Bijou,
Some of the Purple Cat stuff was so crazy, though...that it actually made me laugh.
Hide the Doody Time ("Where will they hid it today?") was a strip that we quoted for decades following its publication. It was a classic...Like the Fred the Duck Take a S--t t-shirt.
I also enjoyed the origin of George Hansen's Hoony Harf. George meant to call the strip Horney Hare...but the lettering he did for the first one was unreadable...and people thought it said Hoony Harf. So after that....George just took to calling the character Hoony Harf.
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Quote from: 50Cent #II (1st print) on February 06, 2008, 02:59:37 AM
He's got some nice stuff...
http://stores.ebay.com/gitfiddle-georges-music-store_Underground-comix_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ7246601QQftidZ2QQtZkm
I'm thinking the starting bids are too high...
oops. please move my last post if inapprioate for this topic.
Let's set the record straight on George Hansen. George met Crumb in '68 or thereabouts...and for the next few decades these two guys traded 78 rpm records regularly and hung out with the same '78 collectors ....and Crumb and me and all the early underground guys who weren't snots enjoyed Geroge's work on account of it was actually FUNNY! Gary Panter and Matt Groening were two heavy fans of George's stuff back then. George's stuff was totally unrestrained and over the top. But Adam's Apple only paid half of what all the other publishers did then. So if there was any resentment among the cartoonists...it was because of the rates that the publisher was paying. George did what...something like a dozen books in a few years? That was a fantastic output. Nobody else did so many books in so short a time. Of the stuff that I remember from that time...The stuff that the wife and I quote to each other to this day...Probably half of the stuff we REMEMBER and quote is Hansen stuff. "CRIME...That Evil Little Bastard!".....Was one of the greatest comic strips ever done . It is the only piece of underground comix art that hangs in my house (aside from a nifty Javi Soler drawing). A cel-vinyl painted color cel of CRIME proudly hangs in my kitchen to this day. Every time we eat dinner, we laugh at Crime, that evil little bastard. The humor never gets stale! Hansen was the Johnny Ryan of his day!
In recent years, he has been doing fine art paintings of exploding dogs. And he started a record company that does some kind of avant garde jazz or something. Bloody Murder Records is the name of his label.
Hansen and I did some jams. I guess they were published in some of his books. Later, in the '80s, I think I printed one of his books of exploding dogs books on my copy machine....around the time we were doing the anonymous Chicago humor mag called THE CHICAGO SPITUNE, the idea of which was copied and watered down by some guys in Milwaukee a few years later. They called theirs The ONION...but it didn't have the freedom the Spitune had...since we were an anonymous, guerilla publication....we could viciously mock everybody and everything without fear of reprisals. There were 6 issues of the Spitune. 1000 copies of each ish were printed.
Chicagoans can see them in the library of the Chicago Historical Society.
Next time I visit Chicago (gee, it's only been 9 years) I'll try to visit the Historical Society. I'd love to see those issues of Spitune.
George Hansen put out some pretty mediocre comix, as I recall. "Let's Not and Say We Did," "Tail Dragger Comix," and "Animal Bite Comix" and were not that funny. Yet he did produce some terrifically funny stuff as well, including both of the "Choice Meats" books and the "Hard Times" book I mentioned before.
His oeuvre was wildly inconsistent, but deeply satisfying when he hit the mark.
I say rock on! Over the top? A reaction you wouldn't expect from UG collecttors. Thanks for your input Jay; that you find Hansen funny confirms to me....all hell is lost
trading 78s sounds like Ghost World and Steve Buscemi to me
who'd a thought scarlet johansen would be such hot babe?
Quote from: jaylynch on February 08, 2008, 05:06:46 AM
....around the time we were doing the anonymous Chicago humor mag called THE CHICAGO SPITUNE, the idea of which was copied and watered down by some guys in Milwaukee a few years later. They called theirs The ONION
Those damn cheeseheads! I can say that since I just moved from there and my wife's side of the family is still there. :beerglass:
There were copies of the Onion all over Milwaukee, just about every storefront has free copies.
Funny you refer to them as Cheeseheads, that's also what the Germans call the Dutch because of all the Gouda the Dutch make.
Quote from: 50Cent #II (1st print) on February 06, 2008, 02:59:37 AM
He's got some nice stuff...
http://stores.ebay.com/gitfiddle-georges-music-store_Underground-comix_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ7246601QQftidZ2QQtZkm
(https://headcomix.info/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fgraphics.gaiaonline.com%2Fimages%2Ftemplate%2Fsmiles%2Ficon_sweatdrop.gif&hash=c9155cf03c20101603cec00fdd685daa534ae1fc) Y'know, I really gotta learn to curb my opinions sometimes. I just won his auction for
Tail Dragger Comix (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=370020089355&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=024), and he sends me a note...
Quote from: George Hansen
Aren't you the same "Sir Real" who always knocks my work on that comix blog?
Well, I feel pretty small at the moment, and not in a good way. Who'da thunk?
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Tell him to personalize it for you, I'm sure you'll have a unique comix most will be jealous of. You could also tell him it's another Sir Real, as that's just so common a name... :tongue3:
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At least he let the cat out of the bag and he's a lurker in our forum...
By the way, I REALLY LIKE Hansen's work...
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If you want to get on his good side, ask him about Hot Nuts.
I recently won this comic on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280196223485
Eggie and the Mirror by Adam's Apple. Somehow I have the feeling this isn't the same Adam's Apple as George Hansen's. Besides the content, they were based in Indiana, isn't George out of Chicago?
Jay - I sold an original Hansen's Evil Bastard page on eBay back in 2001 (didn't even go for that much $$). Did it make its way to you or did he do multiple copies?
jon
www.jwcomix.com
What I have isn't the original pen and ink drawing of CRIME. I have it photographed in black line on a transparent sheet of acetate,which is then colored with Cel Vinyl animation paint. When the wife and I were painting the backs of the Garbage Pail Kids cards in that manner, we used the leftover paint to paint a cel of the CRIME strip. So we have a color version, which we put in a frame.
I had Tail Dragger and Eggie and the Mirror on my watch list but did not bid. In my pool table room I have scans of several covers of Adams Apple Stuff, including Hard Times. IMO they are undervalued.
I like George Hansen's Work very much. The "Hard Times" &" Lets not and say we did" & "Like Nobodys Business" covers are beautiful. It is a little Crumb-like but I like that style. I just picked up a VF copy of Hard Times from Tony23d for $4.99. That's a steal. Hard to find copy without the white scuffed up. I don't know how many times I have been outbid on that one but it's to many to count. Everyone has their favorites. " Beauty is in the Eye of the Fanboy" but some of us are getting a little old for that tag.