Howard Cruse Stuck Rubber Baby

By brian cronin jun 01 2020.

Howard cruse stuck rubber baby. It is an extraordinarily complex and rich tapestry of characters deftly woven into the fabric of a specific time and place. In the first of a month long spotlight on awesome lgbtq stories csbg takes a look at howard cruse s stuck rubber baby. Howard cruse creator of stuck rubber baby dies at 75 posted on november 26 2019 by rich johnston comments comic book creator and publisher howard cruse has died aged 75 after being. Paradox press softcover 210 pages.

Stuck rubber baby his most widely known work was the winner of eisner and harvey awards in the u s. Perhaps it was because of the political climate of the time. Perhaps it was because dc wasn t set up to marketing books like this. Stuck rubber baby is one of the few graphic novels that really and truly succeeds as a novel on the novel s terms at the time this review was written in 2003 editor s note.

Perhaps it was because cruse s style can be kind of dense. Stuck rubber baby is a 1995 graphic novel by american cartoonist howard cruse he created his debut graphic novel after a decades long career as an underground cartoonist while this is not autobiographical cruse drew from his experience of growing up in the south in this book. Stuck rubber baby by howard cruse. For a quick taste of stuck rubber baby if you haven t read the book yet take a look at my web adaptation ofthe printed teaser that i created to generate interest in srb during the months leading up to its 1995 publication.

Share share tweet email. Howard cruse 1944 2019 launched his career as an underground cartoonist during the 1970s in underground comix and in 1980 he served as the founding editor of the groundbreaking gay comix series his comic strip wendel was serialized in the advocate through much of the 1980s. The market ignored stuck rubber baby when it was first released and that s a shame. I am trying to keep it from being a best of.

Now while stuck rubber baby isn t without its problems i appreciate that howard cruse makes his whi the magnitude of these events and the people who made them happen is diminished to say the least with the emphasis instead placed on how all this has changed our precious boy.