Dirty Duck

Dirty Duck is Bobby London's wisecracking, irreverent anthropomorphic waterfowl born out of the underground comix movement, starring in countercultural strips that blended sharp adult humor with anarchic sensibility across publications like Left-Field Funnies and National Lampoon Magazine.

Bobby London's Dirty Duck arrived in 1971 — right in the thick of the Bronze Age underground comix explosion — as a sharp, irreverent creation that found its way from the countercultural pages of Left-Field Funnies and National Lampoon Magazine all the way into Archie's long-running Laugh Comics Digest. That's quite a journey across the comics landscape, and the fact that this wiseacre waterfowl kept company with characters like Trots, Dopin' Dan, and Bonnie speaks to the wonderfully eclectic world London built around him. A catalog run stretching from 1971 to 2003 is no small thing — thirty-two years is a testament to a character with genuine staying power. If you love the era when comics dared to be weird, funny, and a little dangerous all at once, Dirty Duck is absolutely worth tracking down.