Cheech Wizard's Book of Me - Vaughn Bode

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Biographie:
Vaughn Bod? (pronounced bo-dee) is a cult figure and occupies a unique niche: he's both an underground cartoonist and one of the forefathers of graffiti/aerosol art. In 1968, he worked for the underground newspaper East Village Other and edited EVO's offshoot comics publication, Gothic Blimp Works. In his psychedelic, sci-fi/fantasy comics, he created a Kilroy type character, Cheech Wizard, who lives on in story and song (such as in the Beastie Boys' The Sound of Silence). Bod? won a Hugo Award in 1969 and a Yellow Kid Award in 1974: he's twice been an Eisner Hall of Fame finalist. Bod? is also remembered for his Cartoon Concert show, which has its final showing at the Louvre in Paris. Although he passed away in 1975, Bod?'s legacy was cemented when graffiti greats like Kel 139 and Dondi paid tribute to him....

Sommaire:

Once upon a time, at two-thirty in the afternoon, on the enchanted island of York, lived a Wizard. Wearing a big hat to mask his identity, Cheech Wizard is a lascivious con man whose magical powers are questionable -- but despite his transgressions (or perhaps because of them), he possesses some degree of cosmic insight. He has met his maker (legendary underground cartoonist Vaughn Bod?, making a divine cartoon cameo), died and been reborn, and gained pop-culture immortality as a worldwide icon of hip hop and street art.

For the first time, the Book of Me gathers all of Vaughn Bod?'s seminal Cheech Wizard comics into a single essential volume, along with rare and previously unpublished sketches and Cheech's outrageous continued adventures by Mark Bod?. It's the biggest, baddest, ball-bustingest Book of Cheech ever!