(W/A/CA) Spain Rodriguez
Street Fighting Men is the first volume in another landmark series from Fantagraphics. The 170 pages of Trashman stories form the backbone of this volume, along with his first-hand accounts of riding with the Road Vultures Motorcycle Club and his 1969 series about cop corruption, Manning. This first volume is rounded with an informative inside account of Spain's life and loves in the emerging counterculture of New York's Lower East Side.
(W) Spain Rodriguez, Patrick Rosenkranz (A) Spain Rodriguez
In My Life & Times, Spain Rodriguez draws on his formative years cruising with teen pals, visiting jazz clubs and his first encounters with women. Through paintings, sketchbook pages, and dozens of stories, My Life & Times explains how Spain went from a misguided youth to a community elder who bridged the gap between underground comix and the Latino Art Movement. This collection of comics from Zap, Blab!, Young Lust, Rip Off Comix, and The Comics Journal represents Spain's most personal work from his over six-decade career.