His voice will be missed, writes DAVID M. The Other also published Spain’s all-comic tabloid, Zodiac Mindwarp. So once I did Trashman, I already had that kind of Marxist outlook.” The Collected Trashman was published in ’69. As a matter of fact, me and Walter Bowart (one of the founders of EVO) would get into these intense discussions on those issues. So, you know, I developed a Socialist outlook. There’s a party, and they’re probably still around, the Socialist Labor Party, and they would have these get-togethers, and I would get involved in that. As he stated in a later interview, “I had been interested in politics and history when I was in high school but, you know, it was more instinctual and more aesthetic and it slowly evolved. Spain’s politics began on the Left, continued on the Left and ended on the Left. Spain became an EVO ( The East Village Other) staff member, and began a series of cartoons starring Trashman, Agent of the Sixth International. ED SANDERS pays heartfelt tribute to his friend and compatriot.
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