Cruisin' with the Hound
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (871 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1606994611 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
120 pages of black-and-white comics. Although he’s best known for his two-fisted tales of the chopper-riding Trashman, Spain’s blunt graphic style and uncompromising gift for caricature, rendered in eye-punishing slabs of black and white, work equally well for more subtle fare such as these memoirs of his misspent youth.Cruisin’ with the Hound ranges from Spain’s days as an innocent young churchgoer to his time as a member of the Road Vultures motorcycle gang, with stops along the way for his discoveries of science fiction and other, more adult pursuits (“The Birth of Porn”) as well as the “The Education of an Underground Cartoonist,” describing his journey from a pimply Captain Marvel-reading scribbler to his arrival as a professional artist. Raunchy, hilarious, and often violent as hell, Cruisin’ with the Hound is an unsentimentally nostalgic trip to half a century ago the anti-Happy Days, set to a true rock ’n’ roll beat. An underground ic
Buffalo in the 50's and early 60's W. S. Lucas A fun walk down memory lane for many who spent or wasted their youth cruising the streets of Buffalo.The author/artist/illustrator, a Buffalo native, remains a well-respected member of the underground comic book movement.Addendum: 29 Nov, 2012 - Spain died yesterday in San Francisco at 72. RIP. Patricia L. Mccormack said Spain's work if fantastic. I love this graphic work. The pictures are so detailed any frame could be a wonderful piece of art. He is a great artist.. "Nobody did it better" according to alan asnen. Spain doesn't need my recommendation, but since he was something of a mentor of mine in the 1960s and 1970s, I have to say that his work--all of it--is praiseworthy, and this book is right up there with some of the best, exploring themes from his youth.
Club) . “This collection of autobiographical stories, accompanied by a long excerpt from a biographical interview with him, is one of Fantagraphics’ best production jobs as well as a helluva satisfying window on an era the fifties that American culture can’t let go of. Starred Review” (Ray Olson - Booklist)“Spain Rodriguez is one of the legends of the original underground comics wave, and he tells his own origin story in Cruisin’ with the Hound It gives a real flavor both of Rodriguez’s work which was so different in its point of view than the other underground comics of the late ’60s and early ’70s
Manuel Rodriguez (1940–2012), better known as Spain, was one of the great American underground and socially conscious cartoonists.