The Buffalo News on the "Mystery Shrouds Source of East Side Graffiti"
I cut my comics-lover's teeth on Trashman, the underground anti-superhero and the creation of Spain (Manuel) Rodriguez (known through the strips only as Spain). He died last week at 72 from cancer.
Spain Rodriguez Spain Rodriguez, the celebrated underground cartoonist, died Wednesday at his home in San Francisco at age 72.
Spain Rodriguez was a cartoonist whose radical politics and hyperbolic macho imagery, all presented with sly humor, were influential elements in the rise of underground comics.
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