Robert Rodi

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Robert Rodi
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer, critic, playwright, performance artist
Notable works
 Codename: Knockout
Kept Boy
http://www.robertrodi.com

Robert Rodi (born 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American novelist, playwright, comic book writer, essayist, and performance artist.

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Biography

Much of his fiction centers on gay themes and several of his novels are named after archetypes of gay male culture. Rodi himself is openly gay. [1] The Chicago settings of his books also reflect his background.

Rodi's short fiction is collected in a number of anthologies, including Men on Men 5 and Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Book of Dreams . His comic book work has appeared in Marvel Comics, the DC Comics imprint Vertigo, and other independent publishers. He was also well known in comic book circles during the '60s and '70s as a prolific writer of "letters to the editor" (as Bob Rodi). [2]

Rodi was a founding member of the Chicago-area performance group The Pansy Kings and contributed plays and performed at the Live Bait Theatre.

The film adaptation of his novel Kept Boy was released in 2017. [3]

He is currently the head writer on MeTV's Toon In With Me.

Bibliography

Novels

Nonfiction

Comics

Notes

  1. ↑ "Robert Rodi: About". RobertRodi.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
  2. ↑ "Bob Rodi letter". TheFourthRail.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
  3. ↑ Kept Boy at imdb.com

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