Roth’s estate still sells such ephemera, but representatives won’t divulge how much. He also commissioned artists to make Fink-inspired pens, stickers, posters and dolls. Gasser (a green, fanged monster with an unruly tongue) and other characters he created. Roth licensed to toymakers rights to Rat Fink, Mr. “Big Daddy didn’t fit any mold,” says Boeckmann. Boeckmann not only sponsored the event but also last August paid $200,000 for a Roth-made car from 1961-Rotar-that resembles a fighter jet.
Never mind that this “friend” was a fat, hideous rat with bulbous, bleeding, bloodshot eyes, a gummy, fanged mouth and a hangdog expression. “I was way into Rat Fink when I was a kid,” says Boeckmann, 35. Both toymakerĭealer Beau Boeckmann hadn’t thought about Big Daddy in more than a decade when in 2001 he was approached by a Roth groupie asking if Boeckmann’s dealership in North Hills, California would sponsor a Fink festival celebrating Roth’s most famous animal character. Two museums are planning shows devoted to him, and a film documentary ( Tales of the Rat Fink, with John Goodman as Big Daddy) debuts this month. Now his cars and drawings are being sought by collectors. Roth, who died in 2001 at 69, also drew cartoon animals of whimsical repellency, such as Rat Fink. “He would build twin-engine deals and cars with a cartoony character,” says Leno. car design looked pretty wild, Roth’s work stood out. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, when even mainstream U.S.
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