Howard Cruse

Howard Cruse

1944–2019 New York 48 series 245 issues

2 awards

Howard Cruse (1944-2019) was an American cartoonist and a pioneering figure in LGBTQ comics. Born in Alabama to a Baptist preacher and his wife, Cruse earned a degree in drama and worked in television before pursuing cartooning full-time. He began publishing his strip Barefootz in underground comix in 1971.

In 1979, publisher Denis Kitchen invited Cruse to edit Gay Comix, a landmark anthology of comics by openly gay and lesbian creators. Throughout the 1980s, he created the strip Wendel for The Advocate, following an idealistic gay man and his partner through the realities of the AIDS crisis, gay rights activism, and everyday life.

Cruse spent the early 1990s creating Stuck Rubber Baby, a 210-page graphic novel exploring race, sexuality, and the Civil Rights movement in the American South. Published by DC's Paradox Press in 1995, it won the Eisner, Harvey, and UK Comic Art Awards for Best Graphic Novel. Cruse died on November 26, 2019, from lymphoma. He is featured in the documentary No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics (2021).

Name

Howard Cruse

Issues

245

Series

48

Awards

Eisner Awards - Hall of Fame - Voter's Choice (2020), Inkpot Award (1989)

Gender

Male

Birth Date

May 2, 1944

Death Date

November 26, 2019

Birth Place

New York

Country

United States

Email

[email protected]

Links

www.howardcruse.com/

Series

Stuck Rubber Baby 25th Anniversary Edition

Stuck Rubber Baby 25th Anniversary Edition (2020)

First Second Books

1 issue

Theater of Terror! Revenge of the Queers

Theater of Terror! Revenge of the Queers (2019)

One-Shot

Northwest Press

Young Bottoms in Love

Young Bottoms in Love (2017)

Northwest Press

1 issue

Three

Three (2016)

Northwest Press

3 issues

Comic Book Creator

Comic Book Creator (2013)

TwoMorrows Publishing

41 issues

From Headrack to Claude

From Headrack to Claude (2016)

Northwest Press

1 issue

Web of Lives

Web of Lives (2015)

6 issues

QU33R

QU33R (2014)

Northwest Press

1 issue

The Best of Comix Book: When Marvel Went Underground

The Best of Comix Book: When Marvel Went Underground (2013)

Dark Horse Comics

1 issue

No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics

No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (2013)

Collected Edition

1 issue

Issues

Issue #1

#1

Issue #1

Stuck Rubber Baby 25th Anniversary Edition (2020)

Jul 22, 2020

Issue #1

#1

Issue #1

Theater of Terror! Revenge of the Queers (2019)

Oct 02, 2019

Issue #1

#1

Issue #1

Young Bottoms in Love (2017)

Jul 26, 2017

Issue #3

#3

Issue #3

Jun 14, 2017

Issue #1

#1

Issue #1

From Headrack to Claude (2016)

May 25, 2016

Issue #12

#12

Issue #12

Comic Book Creator (2013)

May 18, 2016

Berserker; The Good Child

#6

Berserker; The Good Child

Web of Lives (2015)

Mar 09, 2016

Issue #1

#1

Issue #1

Jan 22, 2014

Issue #1

#1

Issue #1

The Best of Comix Book: When Marvel Went Underground (2013)

Nov 27, 2013

Issue #1

#1

Issue #1

No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (2013)

Aug 07, 2013

Frequent collaborators

Trina Robbins

Trina Robbins

Steve Stiles

Denis Kitchen

Denis Kitchen

Sharon Rudahl

Robert Crumb

Robert Crumb

Justin Green

Justin Green

Joel Beck

Joel Beck

Peter Poplaski

Peter Poplaski

John Pound

John Pound

Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman

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