Howard Cruse was an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics.
10 Facts About Howard Cruse
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Howard Cruse's earliest published cartoons were in The Baptist Student when he was in high school.
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Howard Cruse attended high school at Indian Springs School in Indian Springs, Alabama, and college at Birmingham-Southern College, where he studied drama.
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In 1977, Howard Cruse moved to New York City, where he met Eddie Sedarbaum, his life partner, in April 1979.
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Howard Cruse had been open about his homosexuality throughout the 1970s, but aside from having a gay supporting character in Barefootz, did not acknowledge it in his work.
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Howard Cruse spent the first half of the 1990s creating Stuck Rubber Baby, a 210-page graphic novel commissioned by editor Mark Nevelow for his DC Comics imprint Piranha Press but eventually published by DC's Paradox Press.
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Howard Cruse briefly wrote a column in a comic book review magazine, Comics Scene, under the rhyming masthead "Loose Howard Cruse".
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Howard Cruse contributed to the queer comics anthology series Juicy Mother, edited by Jennifer Camper, which first appeared in 2005 and then in 2007.
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On March 17,2010, an original one-off titled Lubejob penned by Howard Cruse was published in Nib-Lit comics journal.
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Howard Cruse died on November 26,2019, from lymphoma in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.