Spain Rodriguez Bios Che Guevara
I knew Spain Rodriguez about 17 years ago back when the Mission District of San Francisco was a vibrant arts scene. He was teaching comic book drawing at the Mission Cultural Center and my son and I were in his class. By then this was long past his wild man underground days—he’d settled down with a wife and young daughter by this time—but there was still the fire of the rebel motorcyclist in him then, especially in his clashes with the Center’s dunderhead administrators.
And that fire is still there. Spain’s latest book, Che: A Graphic Biography, is about another rebel on a motorcycle, the Argentinian-born revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and may be the most thrilling story in author-editor-radical historian Paul Buhle’s People's History Series. Here’s Spain, looking very much like he did back in the early 90s, talking about why the legacy of Che is more important than ever.
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And that fire is still there. Spain’s latest book, Che: A Graphic Biography, is about another rebel on a motorcycle, the Argentinian-born revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and may be the most thrilling story in author-editor-radical historian Paul Buhle’s People's History Series. Here’s Spain, looking very much like he did back in the early 90s, talking about why the legacy of Che is more important than ever.SUBSCRIBE TO MY OCCASIONAL NEWSLETTER. CLICK HERE.
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