Spain Rodriguez passes at age 72

Underground pioneering cartoonist Spain Rodriguez has passed away at the age of 72.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

“He was an archetypal character, somewhere between crazy artist crossed with left-wing radical crossed with working-class Latino hood,” Crumb, who lives in France, said in a documentary made this year by Rodriguez’s wife, journalist and filmmaker Susan Stern. "He had a big influence on me through his artwork.

“He was top-of-the-line in that generation of underground, breakaway cartoonists,” Crumb said.