Synopses & Reviews
Bizarre, wacky, weird, wild and sexy--these are just a few of the adjectives that describe the cartooning of Boody Rogers. Before there were underground comics, Boody Rogers dug deep into breaking the rules; before their was low-brow art, Boody created art that hit hard below the brow. Rogers's pen and ink outré raucousness was wrapped into great stories, beautifully drawn art, and hilarious gags. Fans of Boody Rogers's Golden Age comic book stories span generations of cartoonists, from Robert Williams to Art Spiegelman to Johnny Ryan. Spiegelman printed Rogers's work in RAW magazine and recently it also appeared in the anthology book Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries (Abrams). Here at last is a single book devoted to this cult comics hero, collecting Rogers's best Sparky Watts, Babe and Dudley stories, as well as much more. This beautifully designed tome also includes an introduction and comic-strip appreciation by editor Craig Yoe (Arf).
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"[Rogers's] imagination was clearly light year beyond many of his contemporaries...a cartoonist's cartoonist." Brian Heater
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"Nearly everyone who's come across his work had come away an admirer...Boody Rogers's comics are truly unlike anything else." The Daily Cross Hatch
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Funny with a touch of madness.
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"Rogers defiantly was ahead of his time, demonstrating more zeal for the medium than much of his contemporaries." The Onion A.V. Club
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If anyone is a comic-book pioneer, it’s Boody Rogers. --Gordon Flagg
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"Boody: The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers is a real revelation... Boody Rogers' stories... don't seem to follow narrative structure. They're like Robert Crumb crossed with Li'l Abner. And they are amazing. This is the book to get if you think you know anything about comic book history; it will show you something you never would have thought existed." Gordon Flagg Booklist
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"If Hanks's stories were fascinating for their anger, lunacy, and wild urgency, then these rediscovered gems are a revelation for being every bit as strange, but seemingly on purpose. It's akin to David Bowie coming along and taking the unstoppable id of The Ramones and The Stooges and crafting something much more complex and layered... Get it together, America. Check out this strange book and dare to dream, one last time, because dark days are ahead, and when the bullets start flying you'll wish you spent more time laughing." Paul Constant The Stranger
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"Publisher Fantagraphics has restored the color and images to its typical standards of quality...not to mention standards of unapologetic weirdness." Tom Batten Brick Weekly
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"Boody Rogers's work was and is a visual storm front that keeps you turning pages. I only wish our more legitimate fine art doyens and high cultured dictators of today could bring themselves down to this level of imaginative epiphany." The Oklahoma Gazette
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A 144-page whopper, rich in humor and dreamlike oddities. --Michael H. Price
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This is one of the funniest comics I’ve ever read, and all I do is read comics…Just looking at his drawings makes me laugh…This book is essential. Get it or get out. --Nick Gazin
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Boody's absurdism is patently blue-collar. There is nothing heady or cynical or mean-spirited in these strips. They owe far more to the tradition of wives tales and folk legends than Kafka. As their syndication would likely demand, Boody’s bizarre comics are Golden Age nuggets of an off-kilter author who found a particular release in his medium. --Erik Hinton
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Utterly fantastic. --Mike Carey, author of Unwritten
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"Funny with a touch of madness." Michael C. Lorah Newsarama
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"If anyone is a comic-book pioneer, it's Boody Rogers." Rod Lott Bookgasm
Synopsis
Presenting the first-ever collection of Golden Age comic-book visionary Boody Rogers's wacky, weird, wild and sexy yarns, culled from the pages of such forgotten classics as Babe, Darling of the Hills and Sparky Watts.
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Presenting the first-ever collection of Golden Age comic-book visionary Boody Rogers's wacky, weird, wild and sexy yarns, culled from the pages of such forgotten classics as Babe, Darling of the Hillsand Sparky Watts.
Synopsis
Bizarre, wacky, weird, wild and sexy-these are just a few of theadjectives that describe the cartooning of Boody Rogers. Before therewere underground comics, Boody Rogers dug deep into breaking the rules;before their was low-brow art, Boody created art that hit hard belowthe brow. Rogers's pen and ink outre raucousness was wrapped into greatstories, beautifully drawn art, and hilarious gags. Fans of BoodyRogers's Golden Age comic book stories span generations of cartoonists, from Robert Williams to Art Spiegelman to Johnny Ryan. Spiegelmanprinted Rogers's work in RAW magazine and recently it also appeared in the anthology book Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries(Abrams). Here at last is a single book devoted to this cult comicshero, collecting Rogers's best Sparky Watts, Babe and Dudley stories, as well as much more. This beautifully designed tome also includes anintroduction and comic-strip appreciation by editor Craig Yoe (Arf).
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You've met Fletcher Hanks. Now meet Boody Rogers! Fans of Boody Rogers' Golden age comic-book stories span generations of cartoonists, from Robert Williams to Art Spiegelman to Johnny Ryan. Spiegelman printed Rogers' work in RAWmagazine and recently it also appeared in the anthology book Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries(Abrams). Here at last is a single book - Boody: The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers- devoted to this cult comics hero, collecting Roger's best Sparky Watts , Babe and Dudley stories, as well as much more. This beautifully designed tome also includes an introduction and comic-strip appreciation by editor Craig Yoe (Arf).
About the Author
Craig Yoe is the author and designer of over 25 books on popular culture. He is the former VPGM/Creative Director of The Muppets, working closely with Jim Henson and is a former Vice President Art Director for Disney. He was a Consulting Creative Director of Nickelodeon and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Art at Syracuse University. He has garnered a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, an Addy, and a Will Eisner Award, holds six patents for toy inventions, and has curated exhibits in museums from Japan to New York. His books include the Hotwire series and Bella Donna: The Pin-Up Girls of Kremos.