Robert Rodi
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Robert Rodi is a gay American (born 1956, Chicago, Illinois) novelist, playwright, comic book writer, essayist and performance artist. Much of his fiction centers on gay themes and several of his novels are named after archetypes of gay male culture. 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.
Rodi was a founding member of the Chicago-area performance group The Pansy Kings and contributed plays and performed at the Live Bait Theatre.
His novel Kept Boy is under option to Warner Bros. and Rodi is adapting the screenplay.
[edit] Novels
- Fag Hag (1991)
- What They Did to Princess Paragon (1994)
- Closet Case (1994)
- Drag Queen (1995)
- Kept Boy (1996)
- The Birdcage - novelization of the film (1996)
- Bitch Goddess (2002)
[edit] Comic books
- 4 Horsemen - Vertigo (2000)
- Codename: Knockout - Vertigo (2001-2003)
- The Crossovers - CGE/Code6 (2003)
- Genes and a T-Shirt appearing in Heartthrobs #1 - Vertigo (January 1999) with art by Phil Jimenez
- Immune appearing in Strange Adventures #1 - Vertigo (November 1999) with Frank Quitely
- You've Got Hate Mail appearing in Flinch #8 - Vertigo (January 2000) with Marcelo Frusin
- The Spoils of War appearing in Weird War Tales Special #1 - Vertigo (April 2000) with Frank Teran
- Identity Disc - Marvel (2004) with John Higgins
