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Howard Cruse
Author
Title
Howard Cruse / Janine Utell.
ISBN
9781496843555
149684355X
9781496843500
1496843509
9781496843517
9781496843524
9781496843531
9781496843548
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary
"Howard Cruse tells the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ comics. A preacher's kid from Alabama who became "the godfather of queer comics," Cruse (1944-2019) was a groundbreaking underground cartoonist, a wicked satirist, an LGBTQ activist, and a mentor to a vast network of queer comics artists. His comic strip Wendel, published in The Advocate throughout the 1980s, is considered a revolutionary moment in the development of LGBTQ comics, as is his inaugurating the editorship of Gay Comix with Kitchen Sink Press in 1979, which furthered the careers of important artists like Jennifer Camper and Alison Bechdel. Cruse's graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby, published in 1995, fictionalizes his own coming out in the context of the civil rights movement in 1960s Birmingham and was a significant forerunner to contemporary graphic novels and memoirs. Howard Cruse draws on extensive archival research and interviews and covers Cruse's entire body of work: the cute and zany Barefootz, the unexpected innovations of the Gay Comix stories, the domestic intimacies of Wendel, and the complexity and power of Stuck Rubber Baby. The book places Cruse's art in the context of his life and his times, including the historic movements for gay rights and against the AIDS crisis, and it celebrates this extraordinary and essential figure of LGBTQ comics and American comics art more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Utell, Janine. Howard cruse Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 05, 2023
Series
Biographix series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments Biographers preface
Chapter one: Little did I suspect that I was destined to eventually become a fabulously successful cartoonist (1944 to 1963)
Chapter two: There were things buried inside of me that were getting pried loose by all these vibes in the air (1962 to 1968)
Chapter three: Was I going to heed the call of my acid visions and cast my lot with the counterculture? (1968 to 1977)
Chapter four: I discovered a sexy New Yorker (1979 to 2019)
Chapter five: Theres more to the gay experience than can be chronicled in 36 pages (1979 to 1981)
Chapter six: Im interested in the undercurrents of life, the ways people relate to each other (1983 to 1989)
Chapter seven: Seeing them and missing them still makes me angry (1981 to 1996)
Chapter eight: Are you crazy? Do you realize how long it would take of my work, to feel they have come to know me as a person (1996 to 2019)
Source notes
Bibliography
Index.
Subjects
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Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning.
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