University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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But a lot of people dig it. It's liberated. The Silver Surfer is a long way from Donald Duck or so rumor has it. There's a new mode of thought here, graphically influenced by the Mc- Cluhanesque electronic, science fiction-facts of modern life. Space-time dimensions of thought and art—not just drugs. But new realms of ideas and imagery; and one way it comes out—oddly— is in these comics. These talk to this spaced-out thought process—with wild and abstract art, weighted copy, and inside ideas. Mickey Mouse with a plastic nose in a space warp. All of this speaks to new tastes; it's as apart from established tastes as rock music. You have to be in a certain frame of mind—or a certain bag--

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to dig it. Not everybody can I've seen it, and I've seen some of them I do like, and some I don't. But if I don't buy it, so what? That doesn't mean someone else shouldn't. I don't put it down. Who ami but just one cretin amongst the masses? I'd just as soon be an executioner as a censor--l've got as much right to do one thing as the other. I can only be a sort of an everyman--bland and flexible. I don't have an editorial position, here. Please takeaway my soap box. Most of these comics come from the drug scene, and that's a Pandora's Box. Still, the CU Everyman has tried drugs, hasn't he? (Hey, cool it with the lid. Pandora?)