[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA book available for review - Howard Cruse

[Mike Rhode]

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Howard Cruse
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*Paperback :* 9781496843500, 224 pages, 29 b&w illustrations, March 2023
*Hardcover :* 9781496843555, 224 pages, 29 b&w illustrations, March 2023
Expected to ship: 2023-03-15
Expected to ship: 2023-03-15

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A career-spanning biography of a central and significant figure in queer
comics
Description

*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.
Reviews

"*Howard Cruse *is a compelling and moving narrative that puts Cruse in his
rightful place as a significant figure in late twentieth-century comics
history, LGBTQIA+ history, and US culture in general."
- Andrew J. Kunka, author of The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking
Risks in the Service of Truth
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