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MikeDunnAuthorToday In Labor History April 4, 2001: Ed Big Daddy Roth died. Roth was a custom car designer, pin-striper, cartoonist and leading figure in the Southern California, working-class, Kustom Kulture. He invented the Rat Fink cartoon. He also designed numerous well known hotrods, like the Beatnik Bandit, the Surfite (seen in the film, Beach Blanket Bingo) and the Orbitron. Numerous other Kustom Kulture artists were inspired and/or mentored by Roth, including Robert Williams.My old friend Shannon Shirley turned me on to Roth and his art back in the 1980s, although I was first exposed to his style from my elementary school days, when I used to build plastic models, and Revell sold several model kits of Roth’s creations. One of Mattel’s original first series Hot Wheels was a replica of the Beatnik Bandit. Shannon was also a good pin-striper and customizer. I remember he once bought a large snake skin at the Ashby flea market and used it to create possibly the first snake-skin gas tank on a Harley Davidson. He also tricked out a Baja Bug and hand-painted a shark eating the Jesus fish on the bumper of my VW Rabbit. And then he got into tattooing and became a fantastic tattoo artist, too. I first met Shannon at a party at Rowan’s. I think I met Alesha there, too. On a beer run, we decided to get a house together and become roommates. Ah, such innocent, youthful times, when a mutual thirst for beer was sufficient connection to believe we could be compatible roommates. And, for the most part, we were. Our first house burned down. I remember Shannon trying to fling buckets of water from the front yard up to the second floor, where the flames were shooting out. And the Berkeley Fire Department, BFD, drove right past our burning house and Shannon chased after them screaming. Once it was out, Shannon continued to live in it, even without a roof, until we found our second place, virtually across the street from Rowan and Leslie. Shannon was an elevator man. Worked for Otis Elevators (Elisha Otis invented the first safety elevator, back in 1852). His dad and both his brothers worked for Otis, too. He was a real working-class punk among a bunch of university punks. Went to tons of great shows with him. Dead Kennedys, Butthole Surfers (including the infamous Halloween show at the Farm), Jonathan Richman, Minutemen, Black Flag, Snakefinger, Cramps. Shannon would have been 60 this past February. Rest in Power, my old friend.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingcass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingcass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigDaddyRoth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigDaddyRoth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KustumKulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KustumKulture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hotrod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hotrod</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartoon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artist</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ratfink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ratfink</a>

NASTY FRANKYR.F. . That when you don't know what to listen to, listen to Link Wray and when you don't know what to draw, draw Rat Fink. . . <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/RatFink?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RatFink</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NASTY?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NASTY</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/KingOfTheRoad?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KingOfTheRoad</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/EdBigDaddyRoth?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdBigDaddyRoth</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/KustomKulture?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KustomKulture</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/LowbrowArt?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LowbrowArt</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PUNK?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PUNK</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/rat?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rat</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/TRASH?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TRASH</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cartoon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartoon</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FINK?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FINK</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lettering?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lettering</a>

WilsonResurrecting this dated post to say:I just ran into someone on the street wearing a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RatFink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RatFink</a> t-shirt. I asked them where they got it. Turns out Summit Racing sells them. Makes sense, although I would not have thought to look there. So maybe next time I need spark plugs or something, I'll pick up some fresh Rat Fink swag.

WilsonRat Fink: Ripping off <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MickeyMouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MickeyMouse</a> since 1963.I vaguely remember coming home from a trip to visit my uncle in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Utah</a> when I was like nine years old. I guess he had befriended <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RatFink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RatFink</a> creator Ed Roth—both were Mormon converts. They sent me home with a sack full of little Rat Fink keychains and a pinky swear promise to sell them to my friends and send Ed a cut of the proceeds. I don't think I ever sold one. They just ended up all over my bedroom, hanging off every possible thing. The coolest ones were glow-in-the-dark. I wish I still had some of those.Anyway, fuck Mickey Mouse; long live Rat Fink.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Fink" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Fink</a>

ratfactorA "rat rod" from my sketchbook. I grew up with Hot Rod magazine and the art of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/hotrod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hotrod</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ratfink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ratfink</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/sketchbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sketchbook</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watercolor</a>

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