Given that today is Oscar Day, with the Academy Awards being given out later tonight, I thought I would post some examples of a strip with a Hollywood connection.
Rudy, by William Overgard, followed the day-to-day adventures of an unemployed talking ape.
Once a star, Rudy now was scraping by to make a living in show business, and reduced to taking any kind of job his agent could get him. His observations on life in Los Angeles in the early eighties (when the strip originally ran) was a nice corrective to the general celebrity-obsessed culture that was emerging at the time.
Not a classic in the usual sense, but certainly a very nice strip that was unsung in its own time, and unfortunately largely forgotten today. But Overgard's work is worth remembering as a good example of the satiric potential of the medium.
Given that today is Oscar Day, with the Academy Awards being given out later tonight, I thought I would post some examples of a strip with a Hollywood connection. Rudy, by William Overgard, followed the day-to-day adventures of an unemployed talking ape.
Once a star, Rudy now was scraping by to make a living in show business, and reduced to taking any kind of job his agent could get him. His observations on life in Los Angeles in the early eighties (when the strip originally ran) was a nice corrective to the general celebrity-obsessed culture that was emerging at the time.
Not a classic in the usual sense, but certainly a very nice strip that was unsung in its own time, and unfortunately largely forgotten today. But Overgard's work is worth remembering as a good example of the satiric potential of the medium.
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