Talk:Vaughn Bodé

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is in the scope of WikiProject Comics, a collaborative effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to comics on Wikipedia. Get involved! Edit the article attached to this page or discuss it at the project talk page. Help with current tasks, or visit the notice board.
???	This article has no rating on the quality scale. Please rate the article and provide comments here.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's importance scale.

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.

Biography Portal

Start

This article has been rated as start-Class on the Project's quality scale. [FAQ]
(If you rated the article, please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.)

"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.

[edit] 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))