Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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".
Kannon created the New York City comedy club The Rat Fink Room, which has been described as “the first dedicated stand-up comedy club on planet earth” [5] in 1963. (Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen called his choice of a name "evidence that it's a sick world we live in". [ 6 ] )
In 1964, he was invited to help in the design of Monogram automobile model kits using the "monster" cartoon characters he had developed to compete with Roth's "Rat Fink" character. In 1966 and 1967, Mouse and Alton Kelley lived and worked from 715 Ashbury across the street from 710 Ashbury, where members of The Grateful Dead resided. [4] [5]
Many have speculated as to whether Roth made a mold of the body. Pictures in a magazine article seem to hint at the existence of one but no such molds have ever been found. [1] The car was painted at Larry Watson's Watson's House of Style, where Roth traded the paint work for a supply of Rat Fink T-shirts. [4]
Coop (real name Chris Cooper) is a hot rod artist working from Los Angeles.He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1968, and describes his occupation as "Insensitive Artiste." His work consists primarily of barely clothed or nude Bettie Page-style 1950s soft pornography and B-movie monsters, with the female characters often taking the role of "Devil-Women".
A family member reported the two men missing to Skamania County police at around 1 a.m. on Dec. 25. A “grueling” three-day search was conducted for the men as over 60 volunteer search and ...
Types of art techniques There is no exact definition of what constitutes art. Artists have explored many styles and have used many different techniques to create art. Artists have explored many styles and have used many different techniques to create art.