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The Comics Journal #111 (Sept1986)

Howard Cruse, ‘godfather of queer comics,’ dies at 75 – The Boston Globe

In the 1970s, and even into the ’80s when he spoke with the Voice’s Richard Goldstein, there was “still a lot of pressure to view comics strictly as a children’s medium,” he said, and homophobia was not simply prevalent — “it was generally considered hip to dismiss gay people, as it is today.”

Mr. Cruse, who had lived in Williamstown in recent years, was 75 when he died Nov. 26 in a Pittsfield…

Joe Corallo: Howard Cruse, American Advocate

Last Thursday, the LGBT Community Center here in Manhattan (a.k.a. The Center) had its opening reception for their exhibit Wendel’s World: Gay Life in the 1980s. For those of you that don’t know, Wendel was a comic that ran in The Advocate throughout the 1980s created and drawn exclusively by the underground comix pioneer, Howard Cruse. The reception was filled people who have been passionate…

HOWARD CRUSE podcast excerpt: “Everyone in my personal life knew (I was gay), but I was worried about sacrificing my cartooning career. And yet I recognized the need for getting rid of the secrecy of this.”