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Charles Rodrigues (September 29, 1926 - June 14, 2004) was an American cartoonist perhaps best known as a contributor to ''National Lampoon''. Rodrigues was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts; his father came from Madeira, Portugal and his mother was a local woman of Portuguese descent. After a stint in the U.S. Navy, he read in ''Writer's Digest'' that a magazine entitled ''Country Gentleman'' was paying forty dollars for cartoons - then a large sum of money - and determined to become a cartoonist. With support from the G.I. Bill, he went to New York City to attend the Cartoonist and Illustrators School (now the School of Visual Arts). He began peddling his cartoons around 1950, selling at first to low-grade girlie magazines, then to ''Playboy'', to which he would contribute continually for many years. From the 1950s onward he worked for many magazines of many different kinds, including ''Esquire'', ''TV Guide'', a Catholic publication called ''The Critic'',〔''(Ray and Joe: The Story of a Dead Man and His Friend, and Other Classic Comics by Charles Rodrigues )'', Bob Fingerman and Gary Groth, eds., Fantagraphics Books, 2013, pp. 179-181〕 and Paul Krassner's ''The Realist''.〔''Jumping Up and Down on the Roof, Throwing Bags of Water on People: Cartoons & Interviews from Six of America's Favorite Cartoonists'', Mark Jacobs, Doubleday Dolphin, 1980, pp. 77-99. (Jacobs took the title of his book from a remark Rodrigues made: "People look upon cartoonists as a bunch of screwballs. They expect you to be on the roof, jumping up and down, throwing bags of water on people. This helps me to get away with murder in my conversation. I can say outrageous things to people. They expect it of me." The other five cartoonists interviewed were Sam Gross, J. B. Handelsman, B. Kliban, Brian Savage and Gahan Wilson.)〕 He began contributing to the ''National Lampoon'' as of its first issue in April 1970, and continued to do so until 1993. Although his politics differed sharply from those of the ''Lampoons staff, the magazine provided a wide outlet for his sense of humor. Art director Michael Gross had this to say about him:
In a collection of interviews with various cartoonists, Mark Jacobs wrote:
He was also a long-time contributor to ''Stereo Review'', beginning with its first issue in 1958, and created three comic features for the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate: ''Eggs Benedict'', ''Casey the Cop'' and the daily panel ''Charlie''.〔 Charles Rodrigues died on June 14, 2004 at the age of 77. He was survived by his wife Lorraine and daughters Judith and Ann.〔 Two collections of Rodrigues's work were published during his lifetime:〔 ''Spitting on the Sheriff and Other Diversions'' (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1966),〔(Spitting on the sheriff and other diversions: Charles Rodrigues: Amazon.com: Books )〕 which consists of cartoons from various men's magazines, and ''Total Harmonic Distortion'' (Perfectbound Press, 1988),〔(Total harmonic distortion: Cartoons from "Stereo review": Charles Rodrigues: Amazon.com: Books )〕 which reprints his work from ''Stereo Review''. He also drew cartoons for ''Defending the Undefendable'' (Fleet Press, 1976),〔(Defending the Undefendable - pdf at Ludwig von Mises Institute (mises.org) )〕 a discourse by libertarian economist Walter Block. In 2013, Fantagraphics Books published ''Ray and Joe: The Story of a Dead Man and His Friend, and Other Classic Comics'', a collection of his pages from ''National Lampoon''.〔 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Rodrigues」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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