he idea was to paint hideous monsters on children’s T-shirts – and make a fortune selling them. And so from the fiendish mind of American cartoonist Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth came a comicallymag), but the green rat never really went away (you can still buy all manner of new Rat Fink t-shirts and associated merch today). In the ‘80s and ’90s Rat Fink enjoyed something of a revival as the character became associated with the grunge rock scene (Roth designed the cover art for Australian indie band The Birthday Party’s 1982 album,). Then in the ‘90s the rat went mainstream commercial, with automotive additive manufacturer Berryman Products getting together with Roth to create a Rat Fink-style mascot/company logo – the ‘Chem Tooler’, with the aim, Berryman’s website says, of ‘bringing a fun and edgy way to interact with the end user’.
