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Coles Ray and Joe: The Story Of A Man And His Dead Friend And Other Classic Comics at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Fantagraphics is proud to announce the release of the first volume of
another great, under-appreciated, quintessentially American cartoonist.
“Black as sin and decay and perversion” is how National Lampoon
editor Tony Hendra described the work of Charles Rodrigues. By all accounts,
this small, politically conservative, devout Catholic, was a good-natured
dumpling of a man. But inside lurked an untapped vein of savage wit that only
the National Lampoon saw fit to unleash. Given carte blanche by its young
editors, Rodrigues produced a 20-year tsunami of hilarious self-contained comic
strips, themed gag spreads, and serials that boggled the mind and challenged all
sense of decency and propriety. In this first-ever collection of his comics,
readers are treated to the misadventures of conjoined twins The Aesop Brothers;
Sam deGroot, a private detective in an iron lung (whose life actually gets worse
when he is sprung from his enclosure); Deirdre Callahan, a girl so hideous that
to look upon her causes madness and suicide; and the heartwarming (in relative
terms) titular tale of Ray and Joe, the saga of a man and his dead best friend.
Also included are his brilliant “biographies” of Marilyn Monroe,
Abbie Hoffman, Eugene O’Neill, and others. Rodrigues rendered his cast of
grotesqueries and naïfs in a ragged, unpretty line within dense panels and
pages, that perfectly reflects his uniquely bizarre, riotous and repellent
world. Charles Rodrigues may be gone and, if not forgotten, insufficiently
remembered, and this collection will rectify at least one of those
tragedies.
Fantagraphics is proud to announce the release of the first volume of
another great, under-appreciated, quintessentially American cartoonist.
“Black as sin and decay and perversion” is how National Lampoon
editor Tony Hendra described the work of Charles Rodrigues. By all accounts,
this small, politically conservative, devout Catholic, was a good-natured
dumpling of a man. But inside lurked an untapped vein of savage wit that only
the National Lampoon saw fit to unleash. Given carte blanche by its young
editors, Rodrigues produced a 20-year tsunami of hilarious self-contained comic
strips, themed gag spreads, and serials that boggled the mind and challenged all
sense of decency and propriety. In this first-ever collection of his comics,
readers are treated to the misadventures of conjoined twins The Aesop Brothers;
Sam deGroot, a private detective in an iron lung (whose life actually gets worse
when he is sprung from his enclosure); Deirdre Callahan, a girl so hideous that
to look upon her causes madness and suicide; and the heartwarming (in relative
terms) titular tale of Ray and Joe, the saga of a man and his dead best friend.
Also included are his brilliant “biographies” of Marilyn Monroe,
Abbie Hoffman, Eugene O’Neill, and others. Rodrigues rendered his cast of
grotesqueries and naïfs in a ragged, unpretty line within dense panels and
pages, that perfectly reflects his uniquely bizarre, riotous and repellent
world. Charles Rodrigues may be gone and, if not forgotten, insufficiently
remembered, and this collection will rectify at least one of those
tragedies.
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