Rupert Kinnard was born on 1954 and credited as Prof.
12 Facts About Rupert Kinnard
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Rupert Kinnard was born in Chicago in 1954, and spent his early years living on the West Side.
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Rupert Kinnard moved with his parents and four sisters to a 16th-floor apartment in then-new housing projects, then to the South Side, where he attended Morgan Park High and later the Chicago Public Schools' High School for Metropolitan Studies.
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Rupert Kinnard graduated from college in 1979, and moved to Portland, Oregon, where he began working for alternative newspaper Willamette Week, eventually as associate art director.
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Rupert Kinnard then became the first African American to serve on the board of the Portland Town Council, the state's first LGBT organization, and helped to establish The Diversity Alliance, a multicultural LGBT group.
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Rupert Kinnard is working on a graphic memoir, to be called The LifeCapsule Project.
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Rupert Kinnard's influences include underground cartoonist Howard Cruse, quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, cartoonist and memoirist Alison Bechdel, filmmaker Marlon Riggs, poet Essex Hemphill, cartoonist Lynda Barry, and historian Allan Berube.
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Two of Rupert Kinnard's publications received the National Gay Press Association award for best overall design: Just Out and the San Francisco Sentinel.
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Rupert Kinnard received Pride Northwest's "Spirit of Pride" award in 1996.
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In 1997, Rupert Kinnard took part in A Tip of the Nib, the nation's first Lesbian and Gay Cartoonist conference, at Oberlin College, which included artists Howard Cruse and Allison Bechdel.
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In 2019, Rupert Kinnard was awarded the Portland Monthly's Light a Fire Lifetime Achievement Award.
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In 2022, Rupert Kinnard was invited to create a show of original artwork in an exhibit entitled "From Cornell to Cathartica: A History of Cathartic Comics" at Cornell College, where he received the school's highest honor, the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.