Big Daddy And The Rat Fink

Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth is best known for his custom car designs. Model kits of his concept cars frequently sold out during the 60s. He's also as well known for his bizarre T-shirt designs that usually featured a grotesque looking character, oversized, driving a souped-up hot rod. The most popular of those characters was a Mickey Mouse parody named Rat Fink.

Some typical Roth T-shirt designs:





What Roth is not usually as well known for is his handful of comic releases. He released 4 issues of a comic magazines in the 60s, a few in the 80s, and then a couple of reprint volumes in the 90s (some are available at ratfink.com).
This story is from one of the early issues from the 60s, and tells the previously untold origin of Big Daddy himself (art by Mel Keefer):






To close out this post, here's a couple of one pagers. The first is by Roth himself, the second is from the series of comic strips that appeared in the back pages of some punk rock magazine in the 80s.



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