Road Vultures and Rumbles: A Career Retrospective of Buffalo’s Spain Rodriguez, Underground Comix Pioneer.

Exhibit opening with program and reception

DATE: October 23, 2009 from 4PM-7PM

LOCATION  Special Collections Research Room
420 Capen Hall, North Campus

The exhibit and its opening program/reception are free and open to the public.

Buffalo native Spain Rodriguez is a pioneering underground comix giant,  known for his explicit and politically explosive art. Best known for his anarchistic comic character, Trashman, a superhero of the working classes, his work portrays a dystopian future America. The exhibit features extensive original artwork loaned by the artist, photographs of the Road Vultures motorcycle gang in 1960s Buffalo, and a retrospective of his underground comix.

Exhibit Opening Program:

4:00PM – Presentations:

• “Big Bitch and Wonder Woman Mudwrestle in Heaven: Graphic Femininity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Liberation.” Cait Keegan, Ph.D. candidate,  American Studies.
• “A Tragic Overview of Underground Comix.” Tim Bryant, Ph.D. candidate,  English.

5:15PM – Introduction by Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor.

5:30PM – Question & Answer session with Spain Rodriguez moderated by Michael R. Lavin, University Libraries.

A reception will follow lasting until 7:00PM.

For more information see the News Release from the UB News Center or contact Michael Lavin.