Cheech Wizard is an American underground comics character created by artist Vaughn Bodē.

Vaughn spotted a can of Cheechie Nuts on his kitchen table and coined the characters name Cheech Wizard.

The Cheech Wizard has often been copied in graffiti art,[1] and has been referenced in pop music, as in "Mistadobalina" by Del the Funky Homosapien and "Sure Shot" by The Beastie Boys.

Though the character was, according to Bodē, created in 1957, Cheech didn't first appear in print until April 1966 in a small self published black and white comic and then in the "Daily Orange" Syracuse University newspaper with the initial story "Race to the Moon", when he appeared in various publications being produced by the counterculture developing around the Syracuse University campus (where Bodē was attending school).

Cheech Wizard stories ran in the "Funny Pages" of National Lampoon magazine in almost every issue from 1972 to 1975.

In an early comic, Captured by Morton Frog (1967), Cheech takes off his hat for a police officer, a priest and a political leader.

Cheech walks away from their fortress claiming that "their primitive minds couldn't accept da truth".

a bad-mouth hat with no respect for anyone, completely the opposite of Vaughn, who was charismatic but shy".