Boody Rogers

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.

Boody Rogers
A Boody Rogers World War II chalk talk
BornGordon G. Rogers
8 September 1904
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
Ralph Wolfe
Notable works
Sparky Watts
AwardsFirst prize, Childress County Fair, 1922

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

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