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Spain Rodriguez
Posted: November 29, 2012
Very sad news that the American underground comix giant and graphic novelist extraordinaire Spain Rodriguez died yesterday, November 28th. I first met Spain at the Semana Negra festival in Gijon in Northern Spain and had a great time with him in the company of Phoebe Gloeckner and Fabrice Neaud. In 2008, with her from his UK publishers Verso, Spain came to Comica Festival at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to launch his graphic biography of Che Guevara and took part in a rare reunion and three-way Comica Conversation with fellow underground pioneers Art Spiegelman (below) and Gilbert Shelton (further down). These photos were taken during their lengthy signing sessions afterwards.
Back in June, I joined critics Tom Spurgeon and Joe McCulloch for a Roundtable discussion on Robin McConnell’s excellent radio podcast Inkstuds, where we reviewed Spain’s latest Fantagraphics compilation of autobiographical flashbacks, Cruisin’ with the Hound, which comes highly recommended. Spain leaves us some amazing comics to read and re-read, enjoy and admire. He will be much missed.
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