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.
Amizetta Haj, Museum Studies graduate student at Buffalo State, reflects on Well Crafted. Amizetta is a student in Kathy Shiroki’s Foundations in Museum Education class.
Spain Rodriguez Spain Rodriguez, the celebrated underground cartoonist, died Wednesday at his home in San Francisco at age 72.
Dr. Lasry's poems are being published on the Burchfield Penney's website in conjunction with the exhibition Charles E. Burchfield: In His Own Words.
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.
These are images that were created today, made in Buffalo by anonymous artists together with the anonymous notes which accompanied them. The Burchfield Penney encourages the expression of ideas about this work.
These works, acquired for the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives in connection with A Day Without Art: The AIDS Bottle Project exhibitions 1991-1993 are by anonymous artists.