![]() Young Spain was a delinquent - he fought, he stole cars - but he also had a curious mind, and he drew from a young age on the sides of trash bags, he created comic strips that entertained the garbagemen who picked them up, his wife said. His mother, an artist of Italian descent, painted under a male pseudonym: Steve Nomi. ![]() ![]() His father, a Spanish immigrant, was an auto body repairman. Manuel Rodriguez - he became Spain as a boy defending his heritage in fights with schoolmates - was born in Buffalo on March 2, 1940. He added: I don’t know that there’d be such a things as these nice gentrified graphic novels that I’m associated with as well if it weren’t for the energy unleashed with such vehemence by Spain, Crumb and others.” “Spain was one of the seminal, in probably all meanings of that word, figures of the underground comics planet,” Art Spiegelman, author of the graphic novel “Maus,” said in an interview with The Buffalo News after Mr. His characters, who originally appeared in leading underground publications like The East Village Other and Zap, included the counterculture superhero known as Trashman, an urban guerrilla with a ruthless disregard for the lives of the rich and powerful Manning, a corrupt cop (whose strips bore the slogan “Some call it police brutality he calls it Justice”) and an adventuress, known as Big Bitch, who was a sexed-up counterpart to Trashman, a pornographic cross between a Charlie’s Angel and Rambo. A Rodriguez cover for Zap magazine, 1974. ![]()
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