blindpig
12-03-2012, 03:46 PM
Spain Rodriguez, Artist of Underground Comics, Dies at 72
Spain Rodriguez, a cartoonist whose radical politics and hyperbolic macho imagery, all presented with sly humor, were influential elements in the rise of underground comics, died on Wednesday at his home in San Francisco. He was 72.
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A voracious reader of comic books as a boy in Buffalo, he was highly offended by the Senate hearings that resulted in the censorship of comics in the 1950s, and his anger at the establishment never wavered.
In illustrating his tales of revolutionaries taking back the streets, often violently, from plutocratic forces of repression and corruption, Mr. Rodriguez drew motorcycles and other machinery, detailed cityscapes, futuristic and historical military scenes and hyper-sexed human figures.
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“He struck me as an archetypal character,” Mr. Crumb says about Mr. Rodriguez in an interview in Ms. Stern’s film. “Crazy artist, crossed with left-wing radical, crossed with working class Latino hood. He had a big influence on me through his artwork. He was top of the line in that generation of underground breakaway cartoonists.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/arts/spain-rodriguez-creator-of-underground-comics-dies-at-72.html
http://maddogmedia.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/trashman.jpg?w=412&h=590
http://www.verifyantiques.com/ebay/newstrashmansoain3.JPG
Yeah, it's only comix, kid stuff, but I was a kid back then. All we can do now is dream of a Sixth International.
Spain Rodriguez, a cartoonist whose radical politics and hyperbolic macho imagery, all presented with sly humor, were influential elements in the rise of underground comics, died on Wednesday at his home in San Francisco. He was 72.
snip
A voracious reader of comic books as a boy in Buffalo, he was highly offended by the Senate hearings that resulted in the censorship of comics in the 1950s, and his anger at the establishment never wavered.
In illustrating his tales of revolutionaries taking back the streets, often violently, from plutocratic forces of repression and corruption, Mr. Rodriguez drew motorcycles and other machinery, detailed cityscapes, futuristic and historical military scenes and hyper-sexed human figures.
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“He struck me as an archetypal character,” Mr. Crumb says about Mr. Rodriguez in an interview in Ms. Stern’s film. “Crazy artist, crossed with left-wing radical, crossed with working class Latino hood. He had a big influence on me through his artwork. He was top of the line in that generation of underground breakaway cartoonists.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/arts/spain-rodriguez-creator-of-underground-comics-dies-at-72.html
http://maddogmedia.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/trashman.jpg?w=412&h=590
http://www.verifyantiques.com/ebay/newstrashmansoain3.JPG
Yeah, it's only comix, kid stuff, but I was a kid back then. All we can do now is dream of a Sixth International.