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George Hansen is a friend on Facebook, and I tried a couple months ago to contact him for an interview, but never heard back from him. From what I know, he was born in 1951 and lives in Chicago. In the 1970's he ran Adam's Apple Distribution Company, which published this comic as well as Choice Meats, Judy Tunafish, Let's Not and Say We Did Funnies, as well as other underground comics in the early 70's. Right now he concentrates more on his music, and runs the business Bloody Murder Records.

There's plenty of information about cartoonists like Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, and many of the underground pioneers, but George Hansen has fallen through the cracks of underground history. If his birthdate is correct, he was obviously very young when he did these comics. This particular book seems very influenced by Crumb and Moscoso, particularly Ultra Super Modernistic Comics and the non-narrative montages of Griffin and Moscoso in the early Zap Comix.

I got this comic and some of Hansen's other comics “new” sometime in the early 90's even though it came out in 1972. There were many stickers over each other that showed the distributor changed the price several times to adjust to the inflation of other underground comics.

BUGHOUSE #4 3/3

...And here's the last of that issue of BUGHOUSE.







While I'm a little short on pages today, here's the intro page from MAD #17 (1954) I mentioned.

And here's the parody of that from BIJOU FUNNIES #8 in 1973. It's written by Jay Lynch and drawn by Ralph Reese, who was once an assistant to Wally Wood.

Even though a lot of the stuff I post is copyrighted, I never acknowledge it mainly because the owners can't be found and/or they wouldn't care. A copyright is only as good as it's enforced. I especially try not to if I know the owner. Such is the case with that last page, which is copyright (c)1973 by Bijou Publishing Empire, Inc.

The Great Speckled Post

Some of this was in The Complete Crumb Comics, but here it is in its original context, from the December 1970 ESQUIRE.







Apparently, the original caption to the S. Clay Wilson cartoon was “What's come over you, Bernice?” but deemed too dirty for them. What do you expect when you hire underground cartoonists for a mainstream magazine?

I'm not sure who did the Henry Syverson parody.

from ESQUIRE, October 1957