Gag On This Hardcover by Charles Rodrigues

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2015-10-12)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 432 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781606998564
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

This is a collection of National Lampoon cartoonist Charles Rodrigues’s taboo-busting gag comics.

Charles Rodrigues was one of the fiercest, most audacious, taboo-busting cartoonists who ever lived, and our second collection of his cartoons from the National Lampoon may be the most jaw-droppingly potent collection of single gag cartoons ever published. There was no subject Rodrigues wouldn’t tackle, and none that he couldn’t make funny. There is no example of human suffering, misery, tragedy, or absurdity that is off limits. If they weren’t as funny as they in fact are, they would be considered tasteless, repugnant, and horrifying—but without a drop of rancor, even the chapter titled “Good Ways to kill a Rock Performer.” There is virtually no way to adequately describe Rodrigues’ viciously wicked imagination.

About the Author

Charles Rodrigques (September 29, 1926 – June 14, 2004) was the sick mind behind some of the most outrageous, inventive, and offensive cartoons ever to appear in mass circulation magazines, including Stereo Review, Playboy and (from its very first issue) the National Lampoon. He also created the syndicated strip Casey the Cop and the syndicated panel Charlie.

Bob Fingerman is a lifelong New Yorker who has created comics and books for Fantagraphics, DC Comics, Marvel, Tor, Image, Dark Horse, and many other publishers and magazines.