[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA book available for review - Howard Cruse

[Mike Rhode]

Still available.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 2:46 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Howard Cruse
> By Janine Utell
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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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