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comics and illustrations

"Stuck Rubber Baby" was first published in 1995, winner of Eisner and Harvey Awards, the French Prix de la Critique and the United Kingdom Comic Art Award, it was written and illustrated by world-famous Howard Cruse; his comic strips and illustrations have appeared in Playboy, The Village Voice, Artforum International, Heavy Metal, Starlog, and numerous other mainstream American magazines, as well as in assorted underground comix and in Howard's solo Barefootz Funnies series; Howard was the founding editor in 1980 of Gay Comix, and his comic strip series Wendel, a popular feature in The Advocate during much of the 1980s, has been reprinted in three book collections. The semi-autobiographical graphic novel takes place mostly in the 1960s during the Kennedy years in the South, the central character of Stuck Rubber Baby is Toland Polk, a young white working-class man who gradually comes to grips with his homosexuality while struggling with his own learned racism and that of his community. Densely illustrated, using a detailed cross-hatching technique and typically 8-12 panels per page, the story is 210 pages long.

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