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Odd Rods & Wacky Packs

grant

13:28 / 09.05.02

Sometimes I think y'all think too much.

*This* is art.
More at oddrods.com

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grant

13:46 / 09.05.02

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(from http://www.ratfink.org)

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(from http://www.wacky-packs.com)

Jack Fear

12:24 / 13.05.02

Think you may have your dates wrong: Odd Rods were a 60s thing, and Wacky Packs were still around into the 70s and 80s.

Do a search on Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who created the "Rat Fink" logo above... Robert Williams did some work in the Odd Rods genre, methinks.

And I seem to recall that Art Spiegelman worked for a while doing Wacky Packs. Or was it Dan Clowes? Can't be arsed to check, now.

grant

14:09 / 13.05.02

Yeah, I tried to fix the date, but you can't edit abstracts.
Sigh.

I recall Wacky Packs being *everywhere* in the 70s. So does my girlie-girlie better half.

How the hell did they get away with it?

Art Spiegelman is mentioned on one of the home pages, along with some other surprising artists.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

02:52 / 14.05.02

I LOVED these things as a kid...and my parents hated them, as well they should. The creative team also worked on the INSANELY popular Garbage Pail Kids, and while I was too old for those, I thought they were great.

Kids need stuff like this that offends their parents in odd little harmless ways.