Remembering Howard Cruse, underground cartoonist and godfather of queer comics

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Remembering Howard Cruse, underground cartoonist and godfather of queer comics
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He was one of the first to chronicle gay life in a recurring comic strip and a graphic novel

– one of the first series to feature work by and for openly gay men and women – and later publishedCruse’s work was alternately cute and cheery, with simple backgrounds and comically exaggerated character features, and dark and dense, richly textured with dots and crosshatching that took him many hours per panel.and Robert Crumb.

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