Scan of Boody Rogers' comic Dudley, the Teen-Age Sensation

Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine has kindly scanned a 1949 issue of a story from Boody Rogers' short live Dudley comic book. I'm still waiting for someone (Fantagraphics? Dark Horse?) to publish a fat anthology of Boody Rogers' feverishly surreal work.

Boody Rogers tried his hand at an Archie-style strip with Dudley. It lasted three issues, which shows his readers probably preferred his funny take on super-heroes with Sparky Watts, or Babe, Darling of the Hills, his bizarre version of Li'l Abner. This is story number one from Dudley #1, Nov.-Dec. 1949

Dudley, the Teen-Age Sensation

UPDATE: Fantagraphics has pulled through! A Boody Rogers book is in the works! Here's the cover.

Previously on Boing Boing:
• Boody Rogers' profoundly absurd comics
• Boody Rogers' weird and wonderful Babe comic book

• [Wesley]

  Fantagraphics is coming out with a Boody Rogers collection next year:

  http://www.amazon.com/Boody-Craig-Yoe/dp/1560979615/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218840547&sr=1-1

• [jtegnell]

  Stylistically this guy’s taken more than a bit of influence from Al Capp’s Li’l Abner.

• [ottomatik]

  Anthony@1: Rogers is from Texas.

  http://www.chancefiveash.com/boodyrogers.htm

• [anthony]

  That tears it.

• [Search Engines]

  You can see the ‘personality’ in those drawings.

  Today everything is digital with no artist style or personality showing through.

  You can certainly spot the ‘Archie’ characters influence in Dudley.

• [minTphresh]

  whiner!

• [anthony]

  Sir, if I do not have friends at least I have my bandages to keep me warm this winter.

• [Moon]

  These were the comic books that you gave to your little brother.

• [anthony]

  I wonder if this stuff influenced the maker of ‘Cowboy Henk’?

• [anthony]

  This sort of representation of the South is enough to turn my wig sideways.