Edward Summer(1946-2014)

As an artist, Summer drew the historic first installment of a nearly forgotten comic strip called "SUNY Daze," a satirical feature for "The Spectrum," the official newspaper of the State University of New York at Buffalo. It was written by Jeremy Taylor, now a well-known writer of best-selling books on dreams and myth. Because Summer was called away, the second installment was drawn by the then unknown Manny Rodriguez, a friend of Summer's and member of a local motor cycle gang called "The Road Vultures." Under the name "Spain," Rodriguez went on to become on of the leading artists of the 1960's -70's Underground Comix movement.