{"id":413,"date":"2008-01-24T23:03:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T07:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2008-01-28T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:39:26","slug":"150-greatest-cartoonist-countdown-120-spain-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/150-greatest-cartoonist-countdown-120-spain-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"150 Greatest Cartoonist Countdown: #120 Spain Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?page_id=638\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/150cartoonists\/150cartoonists.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\"><strong>#120 Spain Rodriguez<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/comicartfans.com\/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=85911&#038;GSub=15380\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/150cartoonists\/120_rodriguez.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the above image to see the full-size image on the site I found it on.<\/p>\n<p>Spain Rodriguez got his start as one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastgasp.com\/d\/4930\/\">Zap<\/a> crew of underground cartoonists in the late 60&#8217;s. Spain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trashman-Lives-Spain\/dp\/0930193741\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1201240208&#038;sr=1-2\"><em>Trashman<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/She-Anthology-Bitch-Spain-Rodriguez\/dp\/0867193980\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1201240181&#038;sr=1-1\"><em>Big Bitch<\/em><\/a> are a lot of fun, but he really shines in his wild autobiographical strips. Spain has lived a very interesting life, and his true life stories are full of humor, violence and mayhem. Many of his autobiographical strips have been collected in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/index.php?page=shop.product_details&#038;flypage=shop.flypage&#038;product_id=949&#038;category_id=415&#038;manufacturer_id=0&#038;option=com_virtuemart&#038;Itemid=62\"><em>My True Story<\/em><\/a>&#8230; his autobiographical strips also appear regularly in the excellent anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/index.php?keyword=blab&#038;Search=Search&#038;Itemid=62&#038;option=com_virtuemart&#038;page=shop.browse\"><em>Blab!<\/em><\/a> His historical strips (many of which are also included in <em>My True Story<\/em>) are quite wonderful as well. His art is made for black and white, and graphic in every sense of the word&#8230; something like a cross between EC Comics, old Russian poster art, Jack Kirby, and cheap beer. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spainrodriguez.com\">Click here to go to Spain&#8217;s website.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/r\/rodriguez.htm\">Click here to read the lambiek.net entry on Spain Rodriguez.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#120 Spain Rodriguez Click the above image to see the full-size image on the site I found it on. Spain Rodriguez got his start as one of the Zap crew of underground cartoonists in the late 60&#8217;s. Spain&#8217;s Trashman and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/150-greatest-cartoonist-countdown-120-spain-rodriguez\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-150-greatest-cartoonists-countdown","category-cartoonists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-6F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}