Cruisin' with the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Toote

by Spain Rodriguez

They were all there, the pimps, the fags, the whores, the curious, the alcoholic, the weird of the late '50s... blues lovers, Canadian bikers, thrill seekers, junkies, insomniacs, hepcats..." So begins "Down at the Kitty Kat," one of the 20-plus never-before-collected memoirs and yarns by Spain Rodriguez, one of the original gang of Zap Comix provocateurs.

Although he's best known for his two-fisted tales of the chopper-riding Trashman, Spain's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606994611
• ISBN13: 9781606994610
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.6" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

What a collection of stories! Enjoy reading and laughing at his exploits and the people who populate

It's always refreshing to see the common threads of the dubious parts of our early lives, even though the world surrounding us was so different. This book is for those of us who toe(d) our own line and look fondly upon our madness, misadventures and mistakes as the mandatory compliments to our up-standing pursuits in shaping who we are. Whether the heat we got into sizzled or burned us we wouldn't go back to change it. If you don't identify with any of that, you may not like it, but go for it if you can put aside judgement as a voyeur. Gary Groth's lengthy interview with Spain is so awkward and drawn out that it becomes laboriously predictable. It's the life-long nerd trying to understand the youth of a cool kid so he never joins the same wavelength that he desires to probe. You can tell he's a hopeless high-waist as he keeps asking certain questions in slightly different ways since the unabashed answers don't compute to his square sensibilities. -StrictlySequential (goodreads)