| LC control no. | n 86128975 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cruse, Howard |
| Variant(s) | Cruse, H. (Howard) |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) Williamstown (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1944-05-02 |
| Death date | 2019-11-26 |
| Place of birth | Birmingham (Ala.) |
| Place of death | Pittsfield (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Cartooning |
| Profession or occupation | Cartoonists |
| Found in | His Dancin' nekkid with the angels, 1987: CIP t.p. (Howard Cruse) LC data base 5-7-87: (hdg.: Cruse, Howard) Cruse, Howard. Wendel all together, 2001: p. 272 (Howard Cruse is an Alabama preacher's kid who first attracted national attention as a contributor to underground comic books in the 1970's; he was the founding editor of Gay comix in 1979; since 1979 Cruse has shared his life in New York City with community organizer Ed Sedarbaum) Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 4, 2019 (in obituary dated Dec. 4, 2019: Howard Cruse, a pioneer of LGBTQ comics who served as the founding editor of Gay Comix--one of the first series to feature work by and for openly gay men and women--and who later published "Stuck Rubber Baby," an acclaimed graphic novel inspired by his early years in Jim Crow-era Alabama, died Nov. 26 in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 75. Howard Russell Cruse was born in Birmingham on May 2, 1944. He volunteered with gay rights organizations alongside his partner of 40 years, Ed Sedarbaum. They settled in Williamstown, Mass., and married in 2004) Howard Cruse's barefootz funnies, #2: page 2 of cover (H. Cruse) |
| Associated language | eng |
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