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Informationen zum Autor Charles Rodrigques (September 29, 1926 - June 14, 2004) was the sick mind behind some of the most outrageous, inventive, and offensive cartoons ever to appear in mass circulation magazines, including Stereo Review, Playboy and (from its very first issue) the National Lampoon. He also created the syndicated strip Casey the Cop and the syndicated panel Charlie. Klappentext National Lampoon cartoonist finally gets his due in this collection of his gross and hilarious cartoons. Zusammenfassung Fantagraphics is proud to announce the release of the first volume ofanother great! under-appreciated! quintessentially American cartoonist.“Black as sin and decay and perversion” is how National Lampooneditor Tony Hendra described the work of Charles Rodrigues. By all accounts!this small! politically conservative! devout Catholic! was a good-natureddumpling of a man. But inside lurked an untapped vein of savage wit that onlythe National Lampoon saw fit to unleash. Given carte blanche by its youngeditors! Rodrigues produced a 20-year tsunami of hilarious self-contained comicstrips! themed gag spreads! and serials that boggled the mind and challenged allsense of decency and propriety. In this first-ever collection of his comics!readers are treated to the misadventures of conjoined twins The Aesop Brothers;Sam deGroot! a private detective in an iron lung (whose life actually gets worsewhen he is sprung from his enclosure); Deirdre Callahan! a girl so hideous thatto look upon her causes madness and suicide; and the heartwarming (in relativeterms) titular tale of Ray and Joe! the saga of a man and his dead best friend.Also included are his brilliant “biographies” of Marilyn Monroe!Abbie Hoffman! Eugene O’Neill! and others. Rodrigues rendered his cast ofgrotesqueries and naïfs in a ragged! unpretty line within dense panels andpages! that perfectly reflects his uniquely bizarre! riotous and repellentworld. Charles Rodrigues may be gone and! if not forgotten! insufficientlyremembered! and this collection will rectify at least one of thosetragedies. ...
