Robert Rodi
Robert Rodi | |
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Born | 1956 (age 67–68) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Writer, critic, playwright, performance artist |
Notable works | Codename: Knockout Kept Boy |
http://www.robertrodi.com |
Robert Rodi (born 1956 in
performance artist
.
Biography
Much of his fiction centers on gay themes and several of his novels are named after archetypes of gay male culture. Rodi himself is openly gay.[1] The Chicago settings of his books also reflect his background.
Rodi's short fiction is collected in a number of anthologies, including Vertigo, and other independent publishers. He was also well known in comic book circles during the '60s and '70s as a prolific writer of "letters to the editor" (as Bob Rodi).[2]
Rodi was a founding member of the Chicago-area performance group The Pansy Kings and contributed plays and performed at the Live Bait Theatre.
The film adaptation of his novel Kept Boy was released in 2017.[3]
He is currently the head writer on
Toon In With Me
.
Bibliography
Novels
- Fag Hag (1991)
- What They Did to Princess Paragon (1994)
- Closet Case (1994)
- Drag Queen (1995)
- Kept Boy (1996)
- The Birdcage — novelization of the film (1996)
- Bitch Goddess (2002)
- When You Were Me (2007)
- The Sugarman Bootlegs (2011)
- Baby (2012)
- Edgar and Emma : A Novel after Jane Austen (2016)
Nonfiction
- Dogged Pursuit: My Year of Competing Dusty, the World's Least Likely Agility Dog (2009)
- Seven Seasons in Siena: My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People (2011)
- Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen from the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps (Volumes 1&2) (2012)
Comics
- "Genes and a T-Shirt," in Vertigo, January 1999)
- "Immune," in Strange Adventures #1 (with Frank Quitely, Vertigo, November 1999)
- Esad Ribic, 4-issue limited series, Vertigo, 2000)
- "You've Got Hate Mail" (with Flinch#8, Vertigo, January 2000)
- "The Spoils of War" (with Frank Teran, in Weird War Tales Special #1, Vertigo, April 2000)
- ISBN 1-4012-2798-8)
- Elektra #23-35 (Marvel Comics, 2003–04)
- The Crossovers #1–9 (with Mauricet, CGE/Code6, February–December 2003)
- ISBN 0-7851-1567-6)
- ISBN 0-7851-1336-3)
- ISBN 0-7851-2891-3)
- Astonishing Thor (with Mike Choi, 5-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2011)
- Thor: For Asgard (with Simone Bianchi, 6-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2011)
- Thor: The Deviants Saga (with Stephen Segovia, 5 issues, Marvel Comics, 2012)
- Merry Men (with Jackie Lewis (artist), Marissa Louise (colorist), Shari Chankhamma (colorist), and Jon Cairns (letterer), 5-issue mini-series, Oni Press, 2018)
Notes
- ^ "Robert Rodi: About". RobertRodi.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
- ^ "Bob Rodi letter". TheFourthRail.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
- ^ Kept Boy at imdb.com
References
- Robert Rodi at the Grand Comics Database
- Robert Rodi at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)