31 in the Special Collections Research Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus, and will feature a wide range of original artwork from Rodriguez’s days as a pioneering underground comic book artist and from his more recent, but no less provocative, productions. The title refers to the cartoonist’s experiences on the road with the biker gang the Road Vultures, which, along with his left-wing politics, provide much of the inspiration for his work. While here, he will be feted with “Road Vultures and Rumbles: A Career Retrospective of Buffalo’s Spain Rodriguez, Underground Comix Pioneer,” an exhibition and symposium presented by the UB Libraries’ Special Collections. 25 in the Buffalo Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, of which UB is a co-sponsor. He will be in town for the Buffalo Comicon, to be held Oct. Rodriguez is a brilliant artist, writer and culture worker best known for his anarchistic comic book character “Trashman,” a superhero of the working classes and champion of radical left causes whose stories are set in a dystopian near-future America that has become a fascist police state. Yes, comics are the stuff of scholarly interest at UB, and this month the university will honor Buffalo native Spain Rodriguez, a pioneering indie comix giant, for his intriguing and politically explosive work. Spain Rodriguez’s characters include Big Bitch, a rat-skewering woman who relaxes only at the end of a caper.īy PATRICIA DONOVAN Published: October 14, 2009
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