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Endpoint: Charles Rodrigues (Cartoonist)



created on: 8/10/2024
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Charles Rodrigues (born September 29, 1926 in in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA – died June 14, 2004, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA (aged 77)) was an American cartoonist.

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, and Paul Krassner's The Realist.

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 Lampoon's staff, the magazine provided a wide outlet for his sense of humor.

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.

He was the author of Total harmonic distortion: Cartoons from "Stereo review" (Ed. January 1, 1988, Perfectbound Press).

Charles Rodrigues died on June 14, 2004, at the age of 77. He was survived by his wife Lorraine and daughters Judith and Ann.

He had lived in New Bedford for most of his life before moving to Mattapoisett, Massachusetts in 1969. He died at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford after a brief illness.
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Submitted by : bob (10023)
on : 08/10/2024