Boody Rogers

Boody Rogers
A Boody Rogers World War II chalk talk
BornGordon G. Rogers
8 September 1904[1]
Hobart, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, U.S.
DiedFebruary 6, 1996(1996-02-06) (aged 91)
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Pseudonym(s)Charles McGraw
Cliff Perrill
R. Donrog
Tody Turnovah[2]
Ralph Wolfe[3]
Notable works
Sparky Watts
AwardsFirst prize, Childress County Fair, 1922[2]

Gordon G. Rogers (September 8, 1904 – February 6, 1996), better known as Boody Rogers, was an American comic strip and comic book cartoonist who created the superhero parody Sparky Watts.

Born in Hobart, Oklahoma, Rogers attended the University of Arizona, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Chicago Art Institute.[2] His artistic influences included Walter Berndt.[2]

  1. ^ "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JP7P-T2J : accessed 02 Mar 2013), Boody G Rogers, 6 February 1996.
  2. ^ a b c d Rogers entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999. Archived February 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference funnies was invoked but never defined (see the help page).