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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.

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• Publisher: OTHER PUBLISHERS, UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPP
• Product Type: Novels
• Issue Number: 1
• Cover Number: 0
• Ratio: 1
• Price: 20.0000
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• ISNM: 1496843509
• EAN: 978149684350090000
• Mature: N
• Adult: N
• Writer: "Utell, Janine"
• Artist: "Cruse, Howard"
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• GeekFetch Series Code: 1023729
• Diamond Series Code: 148185
• Diamond Code: NOV221892
• Diamond Ship Date: 2023-03-08
• Diamond FOC Date: 2022-12-02
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