Junkwaffel

 Vaughn Frederic Bode, Junkwaffel # 1.  Vaughn specialized in stupid beings meeting gruesome fates.

He was critical of American involvement in Vietnam.  Vaughn served in the army in the early sixties but was given a section 8 for unsuitability, huge surprise there.  He later got that upgraded to an honorable discharge.

An episode from the Sunpot story, all of these creatures are doomed.

Many of these stories are single page concepts.

Violent death is a favorite theme.

This, folks, was one strange person.

Very cold.  Junkwaffel # 4.

 

Necron 99 from Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.  Ralph and Vaughn were friends and Wizards, his best, is heavily influenced by Bode's art.  Art by William Stout.

 

https://www.cca.org/blog/20110926-Bode-and-Wizards.shtml 

Vaughn got the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist largely on the strength of Cobalt 60, which appeared in a little known fanzine called Shangri L'affaires (aka Shaggy) #73.

 

 This was out of L. A. in 1940 and ran sporadically until 1968.  The latest issue was in 1997.  A Hugo is an awesome award and Bode certainly deserved one.

St. Louis, 1969.  Toastmaster Harlan Ellison.

And, of course, Cheech Wizard, a con artist wizard of dubious character.  I first read this in 1973, two year's before Vaughn's pointless and stupid death.

Ha ha ha,...perfect.