Talk:Charles Rodrigues

tastelessness
My first exposure to Charles Rodrigues' cartoons was in Electrical Merchandising Week, circa 1959, when my father owned an appliance store. They were pretty good. I later discovered his work in Stereo Review. Those cartoons weren't tasteless (what would you expect from a mass-circulation Ziff-Davis magazine?), but they offered incisive observations on audiophiles, the audio industry, and music lovers. (It's unfortunate that only a fraction of them were collected in Total Harmonic Distortion.) The failure of Sound & Vision to continue to use his work was, I feel, despicable.

Some years ago, before Charles Rodrigues passed on, I bought three of his original drawings. He was courteous and a pleasure to speak with. I used the opportunity to politely raise the issue of his homophobic cartoons, which focused on his perception of gay men as excessively effeminate (a cheap shot, but not surprising for someone from a Portuguese background). To my surprise, he admitted there were (unspecified) cartoons he wished he hadn't drawn.

Please do not delete this. It would be nice to figure out how to work some of this into the article. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 13:38, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Hello! I don't want to delete your post, and I'm not even sure what a talk page is for, but I appreciate your observations. I suspect, however, that they probably don't meet Wikipedia's criteria for references, so I don't see how they could be placed in the article. All the same, thanks for writing. I myself recall seeing Rodrigues's work in several issues of Cracked magazine in the 1970s, but I couldn't find any source that mentions this fact; not even the Fantagraphics volume, which includes a broad overview of his life and work, says anything about it. Mgushulak (talk) 19:42, 6 August 2014 (UTC)