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jfglade:
--- Quote from: Ami_GFX on November 28, 2012, 10:25:37 PM ---Just came up from Last Gasp on Facebook:
It is with great great sadness that I tell you that the wonderful cartoonist, artist, and story teller, Spain Rodriguez, passed this earth this morning of complications of cancer. He had just started home hospice and his wife and daughter were with him. Services are yet to be announced. He passed at the same time the prenumbral eclipse was happening, and like the earths shadow on the edges of the moon, his shadow was at the edges of the art world for over five decades. He changed and challeged the art and social world as we know it. More info to come.
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I really liked Rodriguez's work in the "underground comics." His Trashman character was a bastard son of conventional comics, but his real genius came out in things like "Captain Pissgum and his Perverted Pirates. He was an original and I doubt we'll see another like him.
John C:
Maybe a little further afield than usual, but since SOPA/PIPA, the Internet Archive (where RECAP is hosted), and other issues are wrapped up in here (and the political prediction is a great read), it's worth mentioning that Aaron Swartz committed suicide last night, age 26.
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html
I had no idea all those projects were connected by one person, shockingly young (I always dismissed him as "that Reddit guy," myself, and I totally don't "get" Reddit). And that he was apparently hounded for the past months over making public domain content available to people should give us all a little pause.
narfstar:
Before this obit I did not know who Aaron Swartz was. Now he is a hero. What he would have accomplish could have completely upset the good old boy corrupt government system. The powers that be will not allow major changes. Just look at how they sunk Ross Perot and Herman Cain when it looked like they might have a chance. Regardless of your political bent, everyone knows that either of these two would have radically upset the system. We the people keep getting screwed. Swartz was on our side.
John C:
I'm less sure about Cain (he was too "homespun" for a major party to take him seriously, and I think he was chosen specifically to make the other clowns seem more electable; not to imply a racist agenda, but it seems like the Democrats usually use Jesse "Marble Mouth" Jackson or Al Sharpton for the same purpose), but that's a debate we can have in private if you want, and I largely agree on (any) third-party candidates.
I should mention, by the way, that if he did it, Swartz almost certainly should have been punished for what amounts to criminal trespass or breaking and entering into the room where he plugged his computer into the network. But we shouldn't be talking about years in legal Hell to bankrupt him before the case starts, plus a lifetime of incarceration hanging over his head if he loses.
But yes, "hero" works on quite a few levels. On top of disruptive politics, as stories come out, I'm finding it surprising how many tools I use (Markdown, for example, which if you need to do any writing, I recommend looking at it and Pandoc) were at least strongly influenced by him.
narfstar:
But Cain was shaking things up and getting noticed. I really think it was the Republicans who sunk him not the Dems
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