{"id":9813,"date":"2018-09-22T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9813"},"modified":"2018-09-22T08:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T14:57:29","slug":"pagan-humor-1982-from-charles-rodrigues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9813","title":{"rendered":"Pagan Humor 1982, from Charles Rodrigues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9815 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/You-see-were-pagans.jpg?resize=351%2C604&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/You-see-were-pagans.jpg?w=351&amp;ssl=1 351w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/You-see-were-pagans.jpg?resize=87%2C150&amp;ssl=1 87w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/You-see-were-pagans.jpg?resize=174%2C300&amp;ssl=1 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Drawn by Charles Rodrigues, whose &#8220;Charlie&#8221; character&#8217;s appearance was based on the cartoonist himself. Rodrigues (1926\u20132004) <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelmaslin.com\/tom-cheney-lessons-charles-rodrigues\/\">drew regularly for <em>Cracked<\/em>,<em> Playboy<\/em> and <em>National Lampoon<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Rodrigues\">There is more at Wikipedia, including this assessment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He works at night, which is fitting, since some of his best cartoons deal with the dark side of the psyche. A classic black humorist, he rummages around in violence, insanity, perversion, bigotry and scatology, looking for what he needs to create the typical Rodrigues effect: wild laughter with a cringe of repulsion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another fruit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9799\">desk and file cabinet clean-out mentioned previously<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawn by Charles Rodrigues, whose &#8220;Charlie&#8221; character&#8217;s appearance was based on the cartoonist himself. Rodrigues (1926\u20132004) drew regularly for Cracked, Playboy and National Lampoon. There is more at Wikipedia, including this assessment: He works at night, which is fitting, since some of his best cartoons deal with the dark side of the psyche. A classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200],"class_list":["post-9813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2yh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5448,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5448","url_meta":{"origin":9813,"position":0},"title":"Wild Men of Europe","author":"Chas S. 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