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<div dir="ltr"><div>Send me an email with your interest and rationale. Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><a href="mailto:mrhode@gmail.com">mrhode@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>
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<p>A career-spanning biography of a central and significant figure in queer comics</p> </div>
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<p><i>Howard Cruse</i> 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 <i>Wendel</i>, published in <i>The Advocate</i>
throughout the 1980s, is considered a revolutionary moment in the
development of LGBTQ+ comics, as is his inaugurating the editorship of <i>Gay Comix</i>
with Kitchen Sink Press in 1979, which furthered the careers of
important artists like Jennifer Camper and Alison Bechdel. Cruse’s
graphic novel <i>Stuck Rubber Baby</i>, 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.</p><p><i>Howard Cruse </i>draws on extensive archival research and interviews and covers Cruse’s entire body of work: the cute and zany <i>Barefootz</i>, the unexpected innovations of the <i>Gay Comix</i> stories, the domestic intimacies of <i>Wendel</i>, and the complexity and power of <i>Stuck Rubber Baby</i>.
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.</p>
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<p>"<i>Howard Cruse </i>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."</p>
<span class="gmail-source">- Andrew J. Kunka, author of The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth</span> </blockquote>
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