Vaughn Bodē
Vaughn Bodē | |
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San Francisco, California, U.S.[2] | |
Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Notable works | Cheech Wizard |
Awards |
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Spouse(s) |
Barbara Hawkins
(m. 1961; div. 1972) |
Children | Mark Bodé |
Vaughn Bodē (
Bodē was inducted into the
Career
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He was born Vaughn Bode on July 22, 1941.[5]
In 1963, at age 21, and while living in
In the mid 1960s Bodē was living in
In 1968, Bodē illustrated the cover & interior art for
Discovered by fellow cartoonist
Bodē's
Beginning in 1968 and continuing until his untimely death, Bodē entered a prolific period of creativity, introducing a number of strips and ongoing series, most of which ran in underground newspapers or erotic magazines:
- Bodē's strip War Lizards, a look at the anthropomorphic reptiles instead of people. It ran sporadically in the East Village Other, Witzend, Pig Society, and Bodē's own Junkwaffel from 1969–1972.
- Bodē's comic strip Deadbone, about the adventures of the inhabitants of a solitary mountain a billion years in the past, ran in the men's magazine Cavalier from 1969–1975. Originally in black-and-white, when colored the strip changed its title to Deadbone Erotica and later simply to Erotica.
- Episodes of Cheech Wizard ran in the "Funny Pages" of National Lampoon magazine in almost every issue from 1971 to 1975.
- Bodē's black-and-white science fiction parody Sunpot appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction in the early 1970s. (It was later republished, in color, in Heavy Metal.)
- Bodē's monthly comic strip feature Purple Pictography ran in Swank magazine in 1971–1972. (Bernie Wrightson did the painted art for five of Purple Pictography episodes based on Bodē's scripts and rough layouts.)
Print Mint published four issues of Bodē's solo series Junkwaffel from 1971 to 1974. Bodē's graphic novel The Man, published by Print Mint in 1972, is about a caveman who accidentally makes important observations about life.
Cartoon Concert tour
Beginning in 1972, Bodē toured with a show called the "Cartoon Concert", that featured him vocalizing his characters while their depictions were presented on a screen behind him via a
Personal life
Early life
Bodē was born in Utica, New York, the son of Kenneth and Elsie Bodé.[2] Vaughn was one of four children, including his older brother Victor and younger siblings Vincent and Valerie.[2] Vaughn's father was an alcoholic;[2] he started drawing as a way of escaping a less-than-happy childhood.[8] Bodē's parents divorced when he was around ten years old, and he was sent to live with an uncle near Washington, D.C.[2]
After joining the Army at age 19, Bodē went
Bodē married Barbara Hawkins at age 20 in 1961.[2] Their son Mark was born in 1963. Barbara divorced Bodē in 1972,[2] and he moved to San Francisco in 1973 (with some of his underground contemporaries, including Robbins and Spain).[8]
Sexuality
Around 1970–1971, conversations with the guru Prem Rawat and fellow cartoonist Jeffrey Catherine Jones (with whom Bodē shared a studio in Woodstock, New York)[9] led Bodē to cross-dressing, transvestism,[3] and even a short-lived experiment with female hormones.[9] Bodē described his sexuality as "auto-sexual, heterosexual, homosexual, mano-sexual, sado-sexual, trans-sexual, uni-sexual, omni-sexual."[8][9]
Death
Bodē's death was due to
He left behind a library of sketchbooks, journals, finished and unfinished works, paintings, and comic strips. Most of his art has since been published in a variety of collections, mostly from Fantagraphics.
Influence
Bodē was a friend of animator Ralph Bakshi, and warned him[why?] against working with Robert Crumb on the animated film adaptation of Crumb's strip Fritz the Cat.[10] Bodē has been credited as an influence on Bakshi's films Wizards and The Lord of the Rings.[11][12]
Bodē has a huge following among
His son
Awards
The
Bibliography
- Das Kämpf (self-published, 1963)—re-issued in 1977 by Walter Bachner and Bagginer Productions with paste-up, layout, and lettering by Larry Todd)[6]
- The Man (Office of Student Publications Syracuse University, may 1966; reprinted by The Print Mint, 1972)
- Deadbone/Deadbone Erotica/Erotica (Cavalier, May 1969–August 1975 [with the exception of April 1975])
- Sunpot (Galaxy Science Fiction, February–May 1970/republished in color in Heavy Metal, April–July 1977)
- Purple Pictography (Swank, August 1971–April 1972)—monthly comic strip feature with Bernie Wrightson
- Cheech Wizard (National Lampoon, 1971–1975)—monthly feature
- Junkwaffel (4 issues, Print Mint, 1971–1974)—final issue, #5, published by Last Gasp (publisher), and includes some reprints from the first four issues
- Schizophrenia (Last Gasp, 1973)
- The Bodē Broads (Bagginer Press, 1977)
Collected works
From 1988 to 2001, Fantagraphics published a 14-volume series of Vaughn Bodē work titled The Bodē Library.
- Vaughn Bodē's Erotica vol. 2, 1988, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 48 pages ISBN 978-0930193553
- Deadbone, 1989, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 64 pages ISBN 978-0930193980
- Cheech Wizard vol. 1, 1990 Fantagraphics (Seattle), 68 pages ISBN 978-1560970422
- Vaughn Bodē Diary Sketchbook #1, 1990, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 64 pages ISBN 978-1560970286
- Vaughn Bodē Diary Sketchbook #2, 1990, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 64 pages ISBN 978-1560970446
- Vaughn Bodē Diary Sketchbook #3, 1991, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 64 pages ISBN 978-1560970538
- Cheech Wizard vol. 2, 1991, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 68 pages ISBN 978-1560970545
- Junkwaffel vol. 1, 1993, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 84 pages ISBN 978-1560970866
- Junkwaffel vol. 2, 1995, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 80 pages ISBN 978-1560971108
- Vaughn Bodē's Erotica vol. 1, 1996, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 48 pages ISBN 978-1560973072. Note, this reprints the 1983 edition published by Last Gasp (publisher).
- Vaughn Bodē's Erotica vol. 3, 1997, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 48 pages ISBN 978-1560972679
- Vaughn Bodē's Erotica vol. 4, 1997, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 56 pages ISBN 978-1560972839
- Lizard Zen, 1998, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 48 pages ISBN 978-1560973096
- Schizophrenia, 2001, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 138 pages ISBN 978-1560973713
Other collected material:
- Sunpot (Stellar Productions, 1971)
- The Collected Cheech Wizard (Company & Sons, 1972)
- Bodē's Cartoon Concert (Dell, 1973)—collects material from Cavalier Magazine
- Orange Bode: Vaughn Bode At Syracuse's Daily Orange - An Annotated Catalog (Bob Coughlin/Chimneysweep Nostalgia Co., 1978); 160pp.
- The Complete Cheech Wizard, #1–4 (Rip Off Press, 1986–1987)
- Poem-Toons (Kitchen Sink Press/Tundra Publishing, 1989)
- The Collected Purple Pictography (Eros Comix, 1991)
- ISBN 1-879450-35-6
- Cobalt 60 Book Two (Tundra Publishing, 1992)—created by Vaughn Bodē, illustrated by ISBN 1-879450-35-6
- Cobalt 60 Book Three (Tundra Publishing, 1992)—created by Vaughn Bodē, illustrated by ISBN 1-879450-35-6
- Cobalt 60 Book Four (Tundra Publishing, 1992)—created by Vaughn Bodē, illustrated by ISBN 1-879450-35-6
- Vaughn Bode: Rare And Well Done (Pure Imagination, 2004)—fanzine and small press work
Explanatory notes
- ^ As explained by Bodē's friend Fred A. Levy Haskell, in the collection Vaughn Bodē's Poem Toons (Tundra Publishing, 1989, ISBN 1-879450-39-9),"the line over the 'e' in Vaughn's signature is not an acute accent, it is a long mark. That is, it was not part of the family name, and is not pronounced as if it were a long 'a'—he added it to his signature to indicate that you are supposed to pronounce the long 'e' at the end of his name."
References
- ^ "Vaughn Bode, July 1975". United States Social Security Death Index. FamilySearch. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2013. Citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
- ^ a b c d e f g h Levin, Bob (March 2005). "I See My Light Come Shining". The Comics Journal. 5. Archived from the original on May 6, 2014. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f Harmanci, Reyhan (July 1, 2010). "The Bay Citizen: In Finishing Comics, a Son Completes a Legacy". New York Times. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017.
- ^ "The 2006 Eisner Award Winners". San Diego Comic-Con. Archived from the original on April 11, 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2008.
- ISBN 9781560974642.
- ^ a b c d Fox, M. Steven. "Das Kämpf". ComixJoint. Archived from the original on July 13, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ISBN 978-1-60699-744-4.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Frucci, Angela (May 31, 2004). "Following a Wiz to a Far-Out Oz; A Son Completes the Legacy Of an Underground Cartoonist". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 31, 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2008.
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- ISBN 978-0-7893-1684-4.
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- ISBN 978-1-55783-671-7.
- ^ "Inkpot Award". Archived from the original on January 29, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2021.