Howard Cruse

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American cartoonist

United States DesignersLived 1944 to 2019 · aged 75

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Howard Cruse was an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics.

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Cruse depicts himself in the story "Death", from Eclipse Magazine issue 1, May 1981, displaying both his "cutesy" style (the Barefootz cover) and the mid-range cartoony style typical of most of his work before Stuck Rubber Baby.

Awards 3

2022Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance

2020Will Eisner Hall of Fame

1989Inkpot Award

Connected to Howard 4

A. B. FrostAlso won Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance

Nicole ClavelouxAlso won Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance

Attilio MicheluzziAlso won Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance Hisashi SakaguchiAlso won Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance

Designers from United States 2

Trevor Von Eeden44.0

Hattie Carnegie43.6

About this person

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.

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