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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. Roth was a key figure in Southern California's Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s.
Rat Fink [1] is one of several hot rod characters created by American artist Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, one of the originators of Kustom Kulture of automobile enthusiasts. [2] Roth conceived Rat Fink as an anti-hero to Mickey Mouse. Rat Fink is usually portrayed as either green or gray, comically grotesque and depraved-looking with bulging, bloodshot ...
His skill at drawing hot rod and monster art, popular in Kustom Kulture, caught the attention of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, for whom Von Franco later worked. Von Franco became a builder of custom automobiles, gaining notoriety for building clones of Norm Grabowski 's Kookie, Kookie II and Lightning Bug t-buckets, [ 1 ] as well as a clone/expansion of ...
Swedish "raggare" with a 1960s American car at Power Big Meet. Locals in these countries, influenced by American culture, have created a local hot rod culture which is vibrant in Sweden, Norway and Finland where enthusiasts gather at meetings such as Power Big Meet and clubs like Wheels and Wings in Varberg, Sweden have established themselves in Hot Rod culture.
Odd Rods was a group of non-sports trading card/sticker series created by the Donruss company beginning in 1969. [1] The original series, entitled Odd Rods , introduced the theme of the series in 44 stickers: monsters in cars.
Introducing this year’s Bazaar 100. 02 Charli XCX Paints the Industry Brat Green. After a decade of walking the tightrope between alt-pop darling and full-fledged star, Charli XCX finally broke ...
B. K. (Bob) Taylor is an American illustrator, cartoonist, writer, production designer, costume designer, puppeteer, and musician known for his work on the Odd Rods collector stickers of the late 1960s, his covers for Sick magazine, his comics in National Lampoon, and for his work as a staff writer on ABC’S popular sitcom, Home Improvement.
His work has been called "American Hieroglyphics", [15] "mixing 40's style imagery with '60s hot rod aesthetics using imagery as metaphors for everyday life". [18] As an illustrator in the music industry, he got his start with BRC in 1990, working as the assistant art director to clients Tom Petty, Michael Jackson and other major rock acts. [6]