What is "trashman"

n. (context US Canada English) Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.

Trashman is a computer game developed by Malcolm Evans for the ZX Spectrum and released by New Generation Software in 1984. Later the same year, it was followed by Travel with Trashman. The third game in the series, Trashman Through Time, was never completed, however Trashman Goes Moonlighting was made for the Amstrad CPC although it may only have been distributed in Italy. The Commodore 64 conversion was distributed by Quicksilva.

Trashman may refer to the following:

• Trashman (comics), a fictional character and eponymous comic book created by Spain Rodriguez
• Trashman (video game), a 1984 video game for the ZX Spectrum
• The Trashmen, a band from Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Waste collector, the occupation

Trashman is a fictional character, a superhero who appeared regularly in underground comix and magazines between 1968 and 1985. He was created and drawn by Spain (a.k.a. Manuel) Rodriguez. Trashman's first appearance was as a full page serial comic strip in the New York City underground newspaper the East Village Other. After moving from New York City to San Francisco in 1970, Rodriguez teamed up with fellow underground comix artists R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton and others as contributors to Zap Comix, published by Last Gasp. Three full length Trashman: Agent of the Sixth International stories were published under the Subvert Comics title by "Saving Grace, a Division of Keith Green Industrial Reality", a Rip Off Press spin-off, from 1970 to 1976.

Since 1976, Trashman has appeared in such publications as High Times, Heavy Metal, Weirdo, San Francisco and the Fantagraphics anthology Zero Zero #2.