Cruisin' With the Hound - The Life and Times of Fred Toote

Informationen zum Autor Manuel Rodriguez (1940-2012), better known as Spain, was one of the great American underground and socially conscious cartoonists. Klappentext An underground icon takes a trip down memory lane. Zusammenfassung Although best known for his recent Che Guevara graphic biography andfor his Trashman character! in Cruisin’ With the Hound undergroundcartoonist Spain lets loose his blunt graphic style and uncompromising gift forcaricature on the memoirs of his misspent youth! which ranges from Spain’sdays as an innocent young churchgoer to his time as a member of the RoadVultures motorcycle gang! with stops along the way for his discoveries ofscience 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 hisarrival as a professional artist. But the heart of this collection is set duringSpain’s teenage days in the 1950s! often featuring the dot-eyed FredTooté! a wild! flaky character in whose company some of his wildestescapades occurred: raunchy! hilarious! and often violent as hell!

Product details

• Authors: Spain Rodriguez, Rodriguez Spain, Spain Rodriguez
• Assisted by: Gary Groth (Editor)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9781606994610
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-461-0
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 259 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, Graphic Novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions