Bode Broad - Red

Vaughn Bode was born in Utica, New York on July 22, 1941. Vaughn began drawing at the age of five. He remembered himself as "an extremely introverted kid, completely unable to relate to the world around me...I started creating my own fantasy world populated with my own little creatures." On September 27, 1957 at 2:30 pm, he designed a unique little wizard who wore a huge hat and that became the infamous Cheech Wizard. The inspiration for the name came from a can of Cheechy Nuts. Incredibly prolific in a career that barely spanned two decades, Vaughn produced a phenomenal body of work. Among his publications are the self-published DAS KAMPF, which was one of the first underground comics in 1963. He was the editor of GOTHIC BLIMP WORKS the first weekly underground comic published by the EAST VILLAGE OTHER in the 1960's. DEADBONE was featured in GALAXY MAGAZINE from 1969-1971 and CHEECH WIZARD for NATIONAL LAMPOON MAGAZINE from 1971-1975. His JUNKWAFFLE comics 1-4 were published by Last Gasp 1971-1974. Vaughn is one of the most influential American cartoonists of our time. Much of graffiti art itself comes from the work of Vaughn Bode. Rendering his characters, lettering and cartoon semiotics is a rite Mark Bode was born in 1963 in Utica, New York. He is the son of the legendary cartoonist Vaughn Bode. He attended the Art School in Oakland, was a fine arts major at School of Visual Arts in New York and studied animation and etching at San Francisco State University. His first professional job as a cartoonist was when he was asked to color his late fathers’ black and white strip, “Zooks, the First Lizard in Orbit” when Mark was fifteen. Since then he has gone on to work as a tattooist, graphic designer and toy designer. He also worked with Marc Ecko and PUMA designing clothing and sneakers. Mark has been an invited guest at mural events worldwide. In addition to the work that you can see in the Bay Area, he has created murals in Ireland, Paris, London, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Barcelona, Melbourne, Australia, Hawaii and Art Basel Miami. He collaborated with the renowned mural artists, Osgemeos on a mural for the back of the Warfield Theater in San Francisco. In September 2017 he was commissioned to create a mural for the opening of the worlds only urban art museum, Urban Nation in Berlin.