« Blowing Garfield | Main | Leif Utne in Austin » We're Off to See the Lizard The late Vaughn Bode's son Mark is reviving the late, whacky cartoonist's focal character, Cheech Wizard, for The Lizard of Oz, a book that was brewing in his father's head before he died. [Link to the NY Times Story (which will require registration, natch).] "I never thought I'd revive Cheech Wizard because he was too personal to my father," Mr. Bode said. The 70's creature, seen frontally, is a flaccid yellow hat with cartoony red legs and questionable underquarters. "Cheech was my father's alter ego," he added, "a bad-mouth hat with no respect for anyone, completely the opposite of Vaughn, who was charismatic but shy." At first, the son said, he felt intimidated reviving his father's best-known character. The Cheech strip was enormously popular when it ran in National Lampoon magazine in the early 1970's. jon posted this at 5:32 AM |
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