by Gay League | Jan 21, 2025 | Articles
Welcome. The following is an index to several features from comics professionals and queer comics people who were influenced and touched by Howard Cruse the artist and activist or friend as part of a memorial to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Cruse’s...
by Gay League | Jan 21, 2025 | Articles
I’m so grateful to have known Howard Cruse. He was a dear and generous friend from whom I learned so much. I remember wonderful conversations with Howie — his knowledge and sly humor delivered in a gentle southern drawl. He was a joy to be with. Howard was a...
by Gay League | Jan 19, 2025 | Articles
May 2, 1944 — November 26, 2019 Upon their passings from this plane, many artistic geniuses are lauded for their body of work, and occasionally for their temperament. Howard Cruse, whose work spanned six decades of publication in and around the comic book industry,...
by Anton Kawasaki | Mar 24, 2020 | Interviews
The following interview is the first of two times that Gay League had the privilege to interview with Howard Cruse. Anton Kawasaki took the opportunity to talk with Howard in 1998, the early days when Gay League made its first tentative steps on to the Internet. The...
by Gay League | Dec 2, 2019 | Articles
(WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., Nov. 26) — Howard Cruse, a pioneer in the LGBTQ cartooning movement and the author of Stuck Rubber Baby, an award-winning graphic novel about the intersection of race and sexuality in the South, died on Tuesday, November 26. He was 75. His...