Vaughn Bodē (; July 22, 1941 – July 18, 1975) was an American underground cartoonist and illustrator known for his character Cheech Wizard and his artwork depicting voluptuous women. A contemporary of

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, Bodē has been credited as an influence on Bakshi's animated films '' Wizards'' and ''

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''. Bodē has a huge following among

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artists, with his characters remaining a popular subject.Harmanci, Reyhan
"The Bay Citizen: In Finishing Comics, a Son Completes a Legacy,"
''New York Times'' (July 1, 2010). Bodē was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame for comics artists in 2006.

Career

In 1963, at age 21, and while living in

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, Bodē self-published ''Das Kämpf'', considered one of the first underground comic books. Created after Bodē's stint in the U.S. Army, ''Das Kampf'' has been called "a war-themed spoof on

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's 1962 book ''Happiness is a Warm Puppy''."Fox, M. Steven
"Das Kämpf"
ComixJoint. Accessed Dec. 29, 2016. With money borrowed from his brother Vincent, Bodē photocopied about 100 copies of the 52-page book and (mostly unsuccessfully) attempted to sell it around the Utica area. In the mid 1960s Bodē was living in Syracuse, New York, attending classes at Syracuse University and contributing to ''The Sword of Damocles'', a student-run, though not university-sanctioned, humor magazine similar to ''

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''. It was here that Bodē's most famous comic creation, Cheech Wizard, first saw publication. Cheech Wizard (sometimes characterized as a "cartoon messiah") is a wizard whose large yellow hat (decorated with black and red stars) covers his entire body except his legs and his big red feet. Cheech Wizard is constantly in search of a good party, cold beer, and attractive women. Usually depicted without arms, it is never actually revealed what Cheech Wizard looks like under the hat, or exactly what kind of creature he is, although in the episode entitled "The Unmasking of Cheech Wizard", when he "doffs the hat", it is evident that underneath was a low-rent Oz man all along (in an interview, reference is made to the frontal lump in the hat caused by crossed arms). Characters pressing the issue generally are rewarded with a swift kick to the groin by Cheech. After an initial run in ''The Sword of Damocles'', the strip continued for a few more years in ''

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'', the student-written newspaper at Syracuse University. In 1968, Bodē illustrated the cover & interior art for R. A. Lafferty's

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novel ''Space Chantey'', published by

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. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he illustrated covers and interior art for the science fiction digests ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Witzend'' and ''

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''. Discovered by fellow cartoonist

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, Bodē moved to

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in 1969 and joined the staff of the underground newspaper the ''

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''. It was here that Bodē met

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and other founders of the quickly expanding

underground comics Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books that are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, ...

world. At the ''East Village Other'', he helped found ''

Gothic Blimp Works ''Gothic Blimp Works'', an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the '' East Village Other'', was billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper". During its eight-issue run, the publication displayed comics in both color ...

'', an underground comics supplement to the magazine, which ran for eight issues, the first two edited by Bodē. Bodē's

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action series ''

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'' featured an

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wandering a devastated post-nuclear land, seeking to avenge the murder of his parents. ''Cobalt-60'' debuted as a ten-page black-and-white story in the science fiction fanzine '' Shangri L'Affaires'' (a.k.a. ''Shaggy'') #73, published in 1968. Bodē won the 1969

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largely on the strength of ''Cobalt 60'', but he never did anything else with the character. (''Cobalt-60'' was later "completed" in the early 1980s by Bodē's son Mark Bodé, with stories by

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''Who's Who of American Comics Books, 1928–1999.'' Accessed Sept. 19, ...

, who was Vaughn's friend and collaborator in the 1960s on projects for ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'' magazines.) 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

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from the hostile stance of the period's

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, was told with anthropomorphic reptiles instead of people. It ran sporadically in the ''

'', '' 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 ''

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'' 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. (

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did the painted art for five of ''Purple Pictography'' episodes based on Bodē's scripts and rough layouts.)

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published four issues of Bodē's solo series ''Junkwaffel'' from 1971–1974. Bodē's graphic novel ''The Man'', published by Print Mint in 1972, is about a

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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

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(in a performance similar to a

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). The first of these "Cartoon Concerts" was presented in October 1972 at the

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in front of 80 people. He next did the Concert at

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, and eventually performed it at several comic book conventions, including the November 1972 Creation Con in New York City. Observing the crowd reaction, The Bantam Lecture Bureau immediately signed him on, and the show became very popular on the college lecture circuit. Bodē even performed it at the

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, in Paris.Bob Levin. "I See My Light Come Shining," ''The Comics Journal'' vol. 5, (March 2005)
Archived at The Official Bodē website
Accessed Feb. 18, 2016.

Personal life

Early life

Bodē was born in

, the son of Kenneth and Elsie Bodé. Vaughn was one of four children, including his older brother Victor and younger siblings Vincent and Valerie. Vaughn's father was an alcoholic; he started drawing as a way of escaping a less-than-happy childhood. Bodē's parents divorced when he was around ten years old, and he was sent to live with an uncle near Washington, D.C. After joining the Army at age 19, Bodē went

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but later received an honorable discharge due to a psychiatric diagnosis.Zagria
"Vaughn Bodé (1941 - 1975),"
''A Gender Variance Who's Who'' (15 June 2009). Bodē married Barbara Hawkins at age 20 in 1961. Their son

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was born in 1963. Barbara divorced Bodē in 1972, and he moved to

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in 1973 (with some of his underground contemporaries, including Robbins and Spain).

Sexuality

Around 1970–1971, conversations with the

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and fellow cartoonist

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(with whom Bodē shared a studio in

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) led Bodē to cross-dressing,

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, and even a short-lived experiment with female hormones. Bodē described his sexuality as "auto-sexual, heterosexual, homosexual, mano-sexual, sado-sexual, trans-sexual, uni-sexual, omni-sexual."

Death

Bodē's death was due to

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. His last words were to his son: "Mark, I've seen God four times, and I'm going to see him again soon. That's No. 1 to me, and you're No. 2." Thirty-three years old at the time of his death, Bodē's ashes were dropped from a Cessna airplane over the waters off the coast of

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. 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

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Influence

Bodē was a friend of animator

, and warned him against working with

on the animated film adaptation of Crumb's strip ''

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''. Bodē has been credited as an influence on Bakshi's films '' Wizards'' and ''

''. Bodē has a huge following among

artists and his work can often be seen replicated in the world of street art. As the original New York graffiti train writers (such as

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) chose to replicate his characters, images from his work have remained popular throughout the history of graffiti. His son Mark Bodé is also an artist, producing works similar to the elder Bodē's style, and further cementing his father's legacy. In 2004, Mark completed one of his father's unfinished works, ''The Lizard of Oz'', a send-up of '' The Wizard of Oz'', starring Cheech Wizard one more time.

Awards

The

was bestowed upon him in 1969, and he was nominated for Best Professional Artist the following year. He also won the , awarded by the International Congress of Cartoonists and Animators at the Italian Lucca comics festival, in 1974. He was a finalist for induction into the

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in 1998 and 2002, before finally being inducted in 2006. He was awarded the

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in 1975.

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 Larry S. ToddTodd entry
''Who's Who of American Comics Books, 1928–1999.'' Accessed Sept. 19, ...

)Fox, M. Steven
"Das Kämpf"
ComixJoint. Accessed Dec. 1, 2016. * ''The Man'' (Office of Student Publications Syracuse University, may 1966; reprinted by The Print Mint, 1972) * ''Deadbone''/''Deadbone Erotica''/''Erotica'' (''

'', May 1969–August 1975 ith 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

* ''Cheech Wizard'' ('' National Lampoon'', 1971–1975) — monthly feature * ''Junkwaffel'' (4 issues,

, 1971–1974) — final issue, #5, published by

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, 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 * ''Deadbone'', 1989, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 64 pages * ''Cheech Wizard'' vol. 1, 1990 Fantagraphics (Seattle), 68 pages * ''Vaughn Bodē Diary Sketchbook'' #1, 1990, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 64 pages * ''Vaughn Bodē Diary Sketchbook'' #2, 1990, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 64 pages * ''Vaughn Bodē Diary Sketchbook'' #3, 1991, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 64 pages * ''Cheech Wizard'' vol. 2, 1991, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 68 pages * ''Junkwaffel'' vol. 1, 1993, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 84 pages * ''Junkwaffel'' vol. 2, 1995, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 80 pages * ''Vaughn Bodē's Erotica'' vol. 1, 1996, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 48 pages . Note, this reprints the 1983 edition published by

. * ''Vaughn Bodē's Erotica'' vol. 3, 1997, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 48 pages * ''Vaughn Bodē's Erotica'' vol. 4, 1997, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 56 pages * ''Lizard Zen'', 1998, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 48 pages * ''Schizophrenia'', 2001, Fantagraphics (Seattle), 138 pages 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) * ''

'' Book One (Tundra Publishing, 1992) — created by Vaughn Bodē, illustrated by Mark Bodé, written by

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. * ''Cobalt 60'' Book Two (Tundra Publishing, 1992) — created by Vaughn Bodē, illustrated by Mark Bodé, written by

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''Who's Who of American Comics Books, 1928–1999.'' Accessed Sept. 19, ...

. * ''Cobalt 60'' Book Three (Tundra Publishing, 1992) — created by Vaughn Bodē, illustrated by Mark Bodé, written by

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''Who's Who of American Comics Books, 1928–1999.'' Accessed Sept. 19, ...

. * ''Cobalt 60'' Book Four (Tundra Publishing, 1992) — created by Vaughn Bodē, illustrated by Mark Bodé, written by

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. * ''Vaughn Bode: Rare And Well Done'' (

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, 2004) — fanzine and small press work

Notes

References

External links

Vaughn Bodē section of Mark Bodé's website
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