Original Sketch, 1969

Vaughn Bօde

Pencil on yellow notepad paper
19.69″ x 22.83″
Edition 1/1 original
Signed and dated by the artist
Framed
Provenance: Acquired from San Francisco
Includes delivery and installation within the Toronto area

Drawn in pencil on yellow notepad paper, this original 1969 sketch by Vaughn Bodē offers an intimate look into the artist’s imaginative world-building. Featuring a series of hand-drawn fantasy aircraft, the diptych blends cartoon invention with technical curiosity—annotated with Bodē’s signature humor and irreverent commentary. Created during the height of his underground career, the work captures the spontaneity and storytelling that made Bodē a cult icon. Raw, playful, and sharply observational, this piece is a rare artifact from one of the most distinctive voices in 20th-century counterculture.

About The Artist

Vaughn Bodē (1941 – 1975) was a mythmaker. An underground comics icon of the ’60s and ’70s, his work fused sci-fi surrealism with street-level irreverence, birthing a universe of bodacious lizards, mystical wizards, and unapologetically weird rebels. With Cheech Wizard as his crown jewel, Bodē’s visual style—thick lines, warped proportions, psychedelic swagger—laid the foundation for the graffiti explosion that followed. Though his life was brief, his cultural impact is massive. At Mania, we recognize Vaughn Bodē as a prophet of style whose legacy lives in every tag, bubble letter, and freaky form scrawled across city walls.