Manuel Rodriguez (March 22, 1940 – November 28, 2012), better known as Spain or Spain Rodriguez, was an American underground cartoonist who created the 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.
In 1968, Edward Summer and Jeremy Taylor (now a writer/Professor in San Rafael, California) started a comic strip called "SUNY Daze" for the University of Buffalo New York newspaper The Spectrum. When Summer moved away, Spain took over drawing the strip: his first published comic strip.
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His posters for the San Francisco Mime Troupe are so much coveted that they disappear shortly after being put up. To discourage would be collectors, extra staples are placed in the middle of each poster.
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Rode with the "Road Vultures" motorcycle club of Buffalo, New York.
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Creator of the underground comic book biker/hero "Trashman".
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bird of Steel!
special thanks filming
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Trashman: The Art of Spain Rodriguez
2012
Short
Himself - interviewee
Crumb
1994
Documentary
Himself
Comic Book Confidential
1988
Documentary as Spain
NBC Experiment in Television
1970
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Robert Williams Mr. Bitchin'
2010
Documentary
Himself
Known for movies
Crumb (1994) as Himself
Comic Book Confidential (1988) as Actor
Trashman: The Art of Spain Rodriguez (2012) as Himself - interviewee
$100,000
