Mr. Natural, Girl Fight, and Gay Comix

Mr. Natural, by R. Crumb, was essentially a biography about a man known as Mr. Natural. Seemingly immortal, he's been seen through time as many different faces. After he became popular and rich, he blew all his money and thus became poor. He seems to stumble upon circumstances by wandering around as a nomad, and they way he deals with them almost feels absent minded and naive. For instance, when a mother abandon's her rather large baby on a train, Mr. Natural decides to take care of it and has a very erotic dream about the baby while next to it. Wandering through the desert, he "feeds" the baby by having it suck on his penis, and the rest you can imagine yourself. Mr. Natural doesn't see anything wrong with this. The concepts behind this comic are dirty and controversial, but that seems to be something Crumb does well.

The issue of Girl Fight I read was about a black woman who has amnesia and calls herself Fox. She wakes up next to a man and after a brief conversation stabs him in the chest. Fox goes on to find a female army in the streets and requests they send her back to Africa to meet up with her father's tribe. Before honoring her request, Fox and Captain X engage in lesbian sex. After reading this and then clearly by the name, these comics have a strong sense of feminism. I couldn't help but also notice a bit of racism in this particular comic, seeing as after Fox met up with her father, she decided to live in the jungle, but not after killing a cheetah and making a bikini out of its skin.

The issues of Gay Comix I browsed through, by various artists, were a diverse mixture of stories. They seemed to be what I expected them to be. There were issues of exaggerated elements of the homosexual community, of course, but there were also issues that many homosexuals have to deal with, such as confronting people about your sexuality. The case of religion was also brought up in some of them. The comic Billy Goes Out, for example, covered a few of these issues pretty well.