Spain Rodriguez - Artist Info

About Spain Rodriguez

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Manuel Spain Rodriguez
  • Biography

    Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist:

    Spain Rodriguez, Artist of Underground Comics, Dies at 72
    By BRUCE WEBER
    Published: December 2, 2012

    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.

    The cause was cancer, his wife, Susan Stern, said.

    Mr. Rodriguez was part of a wave of artists — including R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson and Bill Griffith, who created the character Zippy the Pinhead — who established the irreverent, profane, highly sexed, antiwar, anti-capitalist spirit of underground comics (often, in this cont...

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