Howard Cruse, RIP
December 5, 2019 6:42 AM   Subscribe

He was a major gay (and underground) cartoonist. "Howard Cruse, a pioneer of LGBTQ comics who served as the founding editor of Gay Comix — one of the first series to feature work by and for openly gay men and women — and who later published “Stuck Rubber Baby,” an acclaimed graphic novel inspired by his early years in Jim Crow-era Alabama, died Nov. 26 at a hospital in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 75." Previously
posted by Nancy Lebovitz (20 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
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posted by carrioncomfort at 7:03 AM on December 5, 2019


Awww... I grew up with his work for Starlog magazine in the late 1970s. Bleeding Cool has a nice tribute for those who can't access the WP link above.
posted by acroyear at 7:15 AM on December 5, 2019 [2 favorites]


holy shit .
posted by nixon's meatloaf at 8:49 AM on December 5, 2019


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posted by brujita at 10:28 AM on December 5, 2019


Cruse's work was fantastic, and Stuck Rubber Baby is a masterpiece.

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posted by Halloween Jack at 10:53 AM on December 5, 2019


(And it kind of blows my mind a little that he'd worked for Starlog, for some reason. I remembered those Gerrold columns but wouldn't have put that together with Cruse.)
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:55 AM on December 5, 2019


Lest he only be eulogized as the wise godfather of the movement, the visionary behind Stuck Rubber Baby, the ol' softy behind Wendel and Bigfootz, our man Howard was also the big weirdo behind Raising Nancies and other fine works available on his still-working website.

I'm sad that he never had another chance to pull off a big long-form work again like Stuck Rubber Baby, but then again, seeing how he basically went broke finishing that one, I'm not surprised he didn't try again, either.
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posted by atlatl at 8:39 PM on December 5, 2019


Oh no! I loved his work.

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posted by rmd1023 at 5:59 AM on December 6, 2019


I interviewed Cruse in 1989: he and his partner invited me to dinner at their apartment in Queens, and we had a fascinating evening. I've interviewed many people in their homes subsequently but never with such abundant hospitality and charm.
posted by Hogshead at 5:38 PM on December 6, 2019


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