Spain Rodriguez

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Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez (born March 22, 1940 in Buffalo , New York ; † November 28, 2012 in San Francisco , California ) was an American underground comix - illustrator and writer . He became known with his series Trashman , which arose from Spain's experiences as a biker and a member of the Road Vultures as well as his countercultural and radical left-wing attitudes.

Life

Spain Rodriguez studied at the Silvermine Guild Art School in Connecticut . In the late 1960s he was able to work for the New York city newspaper East Village Other , which in 1968 produced its own comic strip in newspaper format with Zodiac Mindwarp .

Rodriguez co-founded the United Cartoon Workers of America and has contributed to countless comixes. He also drew Salon's comic book series The Dark Hotel .

His style was originally very much influenced by Wally Wood , but it changed in a more expressive and simpler direction, he adopted Wood's eroticism, which he sometimes intensified, for example in the classic story Mean Bitch Thrills . Spain's women are not overly reserved and more macho, sadomasochism plays a certain role.

In 2009 he illustrated Che's biography , Che: A Graphic Biography . Art Spiegelman called the result brilliant and radical .

Works

  • The Collected Trashman , Vol. 1, No. 1st Berkeley Tribe, 1969.
    • Spain Rodriguez , U-Comix special volume , volume 19, Volksverlag, 1979.
  • Trashman Lives! The Collected Stories from 1968 to 1985 . Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 1989.
  • She: Anthology of Big Bitch . With Susie Bright . Last Gasp, San Francisco, 1993.
  • My True Story . Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 1994.
  • Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are . Text Bob Frissell . Frog Ltd., Berkeley, 1994.
  • Alien Apocalypse 2006 . With Kathy Glass and Harold S. Robbins; Frog, Berkeley, 2000.
  • Nightmare Alley . By William Lindsay Gresham . Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 2003. ISBN 1-56097-511-3
  • You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience . Text by Bob Frissell. Frog, Berkeley, 2003.
  • Che: A Graphic Biography , Paul Buhle (Ed.). Verso, London, 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spain Rodriguez March 22nd, 1940-28th November, 2012. (No longer available online.) In: ComicBitsOnline.com. November 29, 2012, archived from the original on October 6, 2013 ; accessed on November 30, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.comicbitsonline.com
  2. ↑ Spain Rodriguez Zap Comix artist dies . Retrieved November 30, 2012
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wood's influence on Spain @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diesirae911.com
  4. ↑ Road Vultures back in town for Comicon ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , by Jessica Bennett, The Spectrum , October 21 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ubspectrum.com
personal data
SURNAME Rodriguez, Spain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodriguez, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American underground comix artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2012