Spain Rodriguez
Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez (born 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an underground cartoonist best known for his character Trashman. His experiences on the road with the biker gang the Road Vultures provided inspiration for his work as did his left-wing politics.
Rodriguez studied at the Silvermine Guild Art School and first drew for the East Village Other in New York City. He is also one of the founders of the United Cartoon Workers of America.
He drew Salon's continuing graphic story, The Dark Hotel.
Books
- Nightmare Alley (novel by William Lindsay Gresham). Fantagraphics Books (Seattle), 2003. ISBN 1-56097-511-3
- You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience (text by Bob Frissell). Frog Ltd. (Berkeley), 2003.
- Alien Apocalypse 2006 (with Kathy Glass and Harold S. Robbins). Frog Ltd. (Berkeley), 2000.
- My True Story. Fantagraphics Books (Seattle), 1994.
- She: Anthology of Big Bitch (with Susie Bright). Last Gasp (San Francisco), 1993.