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A Rat Fink revival in the late 1980s and the 1990s centered on the grunge/punk rock movements, both in the U.S. West Coast and in Australia (Roth drew Rat Fink artwork for the album Junk Yard by the Australian band The Birthday Party). The band White Zombie produced a song titled "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks, and Cannibal Girls".
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001) was an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters.
Mr. Horsepower logo on a Corvette engine. Mr. Horsepower is the cartoon mascot and logo of Clay Smith Cams, an American auto shop established in 1931. He is a sneering, cigar-smoking bird with red feathers and a yellow beak.
"Rat Fink" is a cover of a song by Allan Sherman from his 1963 album My Son, the Nut, which itself is a parody of "Rag Mop". It was the only cover song that the Misfits recorded during their early era, though it was credited on the single itself, and on later releases, to Danzig.
Comically grotesque and minutely detailed, the series was a contemporary of the stylized Kustom Kulture graphics of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (whose bizarre Rat Fink character was being licensed by Revell for hot rod model kits at the time), as well as of the comic art of popular magazine cartoonists Basil Wolverton and Don Martin.
Kanrom parodied the format of the popular Peanuts book Happiness is a Warm Puppy three times, with Happiness is a Rat Fink (1963), Unhappiness is a Dirty Dog (also 1963), and Insecurity is Better Than No Security at All (1969). They parodied the Peanuts strip directly with the 1971 release of Oh, No! Charlie Green!. [11]
Fink published a book in 2000, Once Upon a Fiend, [15] recalling his experiences in the band. He later drummed for Blackpool bands United States of Mind and Dog Food before joining Uncle Fester in 1999, who changed their name to UFX in 2006. Fink currently serves as frontman of Vince Ripper and the Rodent Show, a duo also featuring Vince ...
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