Talk:Vaughn Bodē/Archive 1

The face of Cheech
"It is never actually revealed in any Cheech Wizard comic whether Cheech is the hat itself, animated by some magical occurrence, or simply a creature hiding under the hat. Characters pressing the issue generally are rewarded with a swift kick to the groin by Cheech." I believe this is wrong, in an early comic, "Captured by Morton Frog", 1967, Cheech takes off his hat for a policeman, a priest and a political leader.(Symbols of power, btw.) You can clearly see him holding his hat in his hands, off the rest of his body. The face is hidden by the speech balloon, but you can see glimpses of hair on top. All three persons witnessing his face fall into cataleptic states forever. Cheech walks away their fortress claiming that "Their primitive minds couldn't accept the truths". In a later comic, "Who is C.W.?", 1974, One of Cheec's lovers insists on showing his true face. Cheech claims that she will die instantly or go insane. After having her signed a waiver freeing him of legal responsibilities, he agrees to take off his hat. The comic ends abruptly at mid-page with Cheech screaming "Okay! Here goes, But I bet you go blind!" The comics discussed could be found in "Cheech Wizard Volume 1" published by Fantagraphics in 1990.

Ralph Bakshi and Wizards
I've never heard of Bakshi and Bode being friends. If they did they must have had a falling out, because one of Bode's Cheech Wizard strips ends with "NOT for Ralph Bakshi". Also, in a recent issue of the Comics Journal Vaughn's son Mark says that Bakshi ripped off Bode's style for Wizards. Does anyone really know what was up with Vaughn and Bakshi? Can anyone clear this up? Rejecticon 04:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * From the official Ralph Bakshi Forum:


 * "Vaughn Bode was one of the worlds great cartoonists. Vaughn, his wife and his newborn son at that time used to hang around my apartment in Manhatten and talk about doing an animated film together. Sure he influenced me and many others, as I influenced him. He told me his secret to his Lizards was a simplification of Daffy Duck and Vaughn really love Fritz the Cat - what I had done with it. We were gonna do the Amorous Adventures of Puck - after Wizards. The script he wrote was hysterical, something about a Don Juan Lizard with a wooden dildo because in those days - Lizards had no balls. At any rate, I loved Vaughn and his family very much and never speak of him because of what he did to himself. I try to erase that whole part of my life out of my mind. I really miss him and all the wonderful , brilliant things he would have done by now. Victoria's website forced me to finally admit that Vaughn was gone." - Ralph B

(Ibaranoff24 01:16, 18 March 2006 (UTC))

Cobalt 60
No mention of Cobalt 60? It's the only strip of his that I know....

Sunpot--Galaxy
"Deadbone appeared monthly in the science fiction magazine Galaxy from 1969 to 1971." It was Sunpot that appeared in Galaxy magazine during this time. (check the Wiki entry for Galaxy Science Fiction) Also, Bode--annoyed with his treatment by the magazine--ended the series by killing off everyone on the Sunpot satellite.(see this on Mark Bode's site : http://www.markbode.com/site/article_2.html) The version of Sunpot that appeared in Heavy Metal magazine was a colored reprint of the original.

Rickubis 02:07, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Rickubis

I thought he was born in Utica, Ny? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.81.34.46 (talk) 14:12, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Birthplace
I changed his birthplace from Syracuse to Utica. On the official Bode webpage it says Utica. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.81.34.46 (talk) 14:15, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm interested in the Junkwaffel 'bots, (Punkerpan bi-pod, etc.) which I remember from the few original comics I was privledged to see. I suspect (I think I'm not alone) that they might have influenced cyberpunk, and I'm positive elements of Star Wars were inspired by them (lizard-faced droid army and the death-chickens). Is there any documentation of these influences which is solid enough to include in the article? And which collections of Junkwaffel have the 'bots as the sole survivors of the war? Tomligon (talk) 03:02, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Art of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has info on the evolution of the droid army (I don't have it at hand, but I recall something about the droid army having to like the dead of the race it was supposed to attack, for psychological reasons, so the droids needed to look like the Gungans). As to the Junkwaffel 'bots, with their cobbled-together appearance, it would seem more likely that they would influence Steampunk.Rickremember (talk) 04:30, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Fallout with R. Crumb
Vaughn Bodé told Ralph Bakshi that it would be a bad idea to work with R. Crumb because Crumb was slick, and a hustler. Is there any further details of the fallout between Bodé and Crumb? Possibly in books about the underground comix scene? This might be difficult to research, considering that many books on this scene are biased in Crumb's favor, though. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 19:32, 24 June 2009 (UTC))

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