{"id":361,"date":"2015-07-16T11:18:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/?p=361"},"modified":"2015-07-16T11:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:18:27","slug":"celebrating-au-alumni-lee-marrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/celebrating-au-alumni-lee-marrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating AU Alumni: Lee Marrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSpecial Collections recently acquired a copy of Lee Marrs\u2019 <em>The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp. No. 1<\/em>. Published by Berkeley based Last Gasp-Eco Funnies in 1973, this is the first of three comics featuring Pudge, an obese virgin from Normal, Illinois, who hitchhikes to San Francisco in her quest to get laid. This collection includes &#8220;Pudge in the Case of the Venereal Virgin,\u201d &#8220;Pudge in Who Was Dat Self I Saw You With?,&#8221; \u201cPudge in the Fat Rip-Off,\u201d and \u201cPudge Takes a Trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_362\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/Pudge-LowRes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-362\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/Pudge-LowRes-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of First Issue of Pudge Girl Blimp\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of First Issue of Pudge Girl Blimp<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lee Marrs graduated from AU with a degree in Fine Art in 1967. She drew comics on social and political themes for AU\u2019s student newspaper, <em>The Eagle<\/em>. Marrs was one of the original contributors to the <em>Wimmen\u2019s Commix<\/em> anthology. She started her own animation and computer graphics company in 1972. Marrs has written and drawn both underground and mainstream comics. She worked as an artist on <em>Prince Valiant<\/em> and author on <em>Wonder Woman<\/em>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Collections recently acquired a copy of Lee Marrs\u2019 The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp. No. 1. Published by Berkeley based Last Gasp-Eco Funnies in 1973, this is the first of three comics featuring Pudge, an obese virgin from Normal, Illinois, who hitchhikes to San Francisco in her quest to get laid. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-university-history","category-new-accessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}