Howard Cruse Utell Hardback MP–MPP University Press of Mississippi 9781496843555

Howard CruseAuthor(s): Janine Utell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496843555, 978-1496843555\nSynopsis\nHoward Cruse is the first biography to tell the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ+ comics. A preachers kid from Alabama who became \""the godfather of queer comics,\"" Cruse [tel] 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. Cruses graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby, published in 1995, fictionalizes his own coming out in the context of the civil rights move.