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The idea was to paint hideous monsters on children’s T-shirts – and make a fortune selling them. And so from the fiendish mind of American cartoonist Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth came a comically grotesque, depraved-looking rodent-like caricature, with bulging, bloodshot eyes and long, sharp teeth. The creature wore red overalls bearing the trademark initials, RF. ‘Rat Fink’ was conceived by Roth as a sort-of anti-hero to Mickey Mouse, and while it mightn’t have played well with the Disney audience (or as a lucrative line in children’s t-shirts, as the artist had originally planned), before long Roth’s mischievous-looking rat was all the rage in the Southern Californian drag racing and custom car scenes. By then (early in the ‘60s) Roth already knew he was onto something with his peculiar brand of…

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