# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-cruse
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:58:38.972Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-cruse"
name: "Howard Cruse"
slug: "howard-cruse"
description: "Howard Cruse was an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics. First coming to attention in the 1970s, during the underground comix movement with Barefootz, he was the founding editor of Gay Comix in 1980, created the gay-themed strip Wendel during the 1980s, and reached a more mainstream audience in 1995 when an imprint of DC Comics published his graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby."
tagline: "American cartoonist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Loz_howard_cruse.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Designers"
  slug: "designers"
profileType:
  name: "Designer"
  slug: "designer"
birthDate: "1944-05-02"
deathDate: "2019-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.346329333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.howardcruse.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cruse"
    title: "Howard Cruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_(%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%B5_%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%87_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "هوارد كروس (فنان قصص مصوره من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cruse"
    title: "Howard Cruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cruse"
    title: "Howard Cruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cruse"
    title: "Howard Cruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cruse"
    title: "Howard Cruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cruse"
    title: "Howard Cruse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466606"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump