Bobby London

Bobby London (born 1950) is an underground comix and mainstream comics artist. He created the first "hip" situation comedy in any mediumFact|date=June 2008, his underground newspaper strip "Merton", in his native New York in 1969 and the raunchy comic strip "Dirty Duck" in 1971. "Dirty Duck" had been originally published by The Los Angeles Free Press and subsequently in books like "Air Pirates Funnies," and "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers". His non-duck work also appeared in underground titles such as "Merton", "Douglas Comics", "Facts O' Life Funnies" and "El Perfecto Comics". In 1972 London moved "Dirty Duck" to the original "National Lampoon" where it was a regular monthly feature until 1976; it has continued to run in "Playboy" for over 25 years.

In 1975, a film entitled "Dirty Duck" was released, but it had absolutely nothing to do with London's comic strip. However, London viewed the film as a rip-off of his work, and tried to sue Roger Corman and New World Pictures, but was unable to find anyone to take his case.cite web |url=http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videography/Dirty_Duck.html |title=A Word From The Original Creator |accessdate=2007-01-21 |last=London |first=Bobby |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] In 1978, London won the Jury Yellow Kid Award for Best Artist-Writer, contributed illustrations to "The New York Times" Op-Ed page from 1976 to 1981 and wrote and drew the "Popeye" syndicated daily comic strip for King Features from 1986 to 1992. In the summer of 2000, he finally unveiled a family-oriented comic feature for "Nickelodeon Magazine" entitled "Cody", co-wrote and storyboarded episodes of "Dexter's Laboratory" and "The Powerpuff Girls" for Cartoon Network in 2004 and contributed character designs for King Neptune and Mindy of "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie". He returned to comic books for the first time in 30 years with contributions to the Grammy-nominated box set from Rhino Records, "Weird Tales Of The Ramones", in 2005.

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* [http://www.comic-art.com/intervws/londart.htm Bobby London and the Air Pirates Follies]
* [http://www.comic-art.com/intervws/london.htm Interview]
* [http://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/london_bobby.htm Biography]
* [http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/tiggermovie/63.html mrcranky.com]