Yahoo

SXSW Film Review: ‘J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like 8mm films of 1960s “happenings” or videos of 1970s performance art, “J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius” ...
Memphis Flyer

When Fake Becomes Real: J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius

“The World Ends Tomorrow and YOU MAY DIE!” So begins SubGenius Pamphlet #1, the mysterious missive that launched J.R. “Bob” Dobbs into the cultural consciousness. The story of the unlikely creation of ...
Texas Monthly

Douglass St. Clair Smith

The SubGenius Psychlopaedia or Slack: The Bobliographon is—how to put this—the most unusual text most folk will ever encounter. Its Fort Worth—bred author-editor midwifed the birth of the for-profit ...
The Daily Beast

Inside the Craziest, Most Conspiracy-Filled ‘Church’ in America

The Church of the SubGenius may have originated from the minds of two good ol’ boys living in Texas, but it’s more of a “universal thang” than a “Texas thang.” The future founders of the Church of the ...
The Austin Chronicle

J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and the Church of the Subgenius

You couldn’t escape his ubiquitous mug back when Austin was truly weird. It appeared on bumper stickers, bulletin boards, telephone poles, streetlights, bathroom walls, and more: A perfectly coiffed ...