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Joshua Quagmire, 1952 - 2023
2 years ago
General
An enigma, this guy. Born Richard Lester, he passed away on or around May 28th from unspecified health issues. He's survived by a sister.
His character Cutey Bunny, an African-American rabbit superhero, first appeared in his self-published Army Surplus Komikz, one of the outstanding titles of the independent comix boom of the early 1980s. (Wikipedia says ASK's five issues ran from 1982 to 1985; Jeff Rovin's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals (1991) dates the first issue to 1984.)
Cutey Bunny, a riff on Go Nagai's 1970s anime character Cutie Honey, is always clad in revealing outfits -- as furry good girl art, it's hard to beat. Quagmire made cameo appearances in his own comic, portraying himself as an irascible crank; that seems to have been very true to life. Furries who knew him recall that he was a difficult individual, perhaps more than a little paranoid. He wanted nothing to do with the emerging furry fandom, and the fandom obliged by erasing him from its collective memory. Quagmire continued to publish new art on his own website, to which I'm not providing a link -- it's not secure.
His character Cutey Bunny, an African-American rabbit superhero, first appeared in his self-published Army Surplus Komikz, one of the outstanding titles of the independent comix boom of the early 1980s. (Wikipedia says ASK's five issues ran from 1982 to 1985; Jeff Rovin's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals (1991) dates the first issue to 1984.)
Cutey Bunny, a riff on Go Nagai's 1970s anime character Cutie Honey, is always clad in revealing outfits -- as furry good girl art, it's hard to beat. Quagmire made cameo appearances in his own comic, portraying himself as an irascible crank; that seems to have been very true to life. Furries who knew him recall that he was a difficult individual, perhaps more than a little paranoid. He wanted nothing to do with the emerging furry fandom, and the fandom obliged by erasing him from its collective memory. Quagmire continued to publish new art on his own website, to which I'm not providing a link -- it's not secure.
All the old furs are weirdos with odd takes. I still regularly talk to a guy who is both pro and anti trans, believes in some conspiracy theories but not all of them, and is an incredibly strong Catholic despite being a sexual nutcase who pays his mortgage with porn money.
I resemble that remark!
Religion and religious mythology, on the other hand -- those are endlessly fascinating.