Stuck Rubber Baby (New Edition) - Softcover

Cruse, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401227031 ISBN 13: 9781401227036

Publisher: Vertigo, 2011

Synopsis

The groundbreaking, award-winning semi-autobiographical graphic novel returns in a new edition featuring an introduction by Alison Bechdel, awardwinning author of Fun Home.

In the 1960s American South, a young gas-station attendant named Toland Polk is rejected from the Army draft for admitting “homosexual tendencies,” and falls in with a close-knit group of young locals yearning to break from the conformity of their hometown through civil rights activism, folk music and upstart communality of race-mixing, gay-friendly nightclubs. Toland’s story is both deeply personal and epic in scope, as his search for identity plays out against the brutal fight over segregation, an unplanned pregnancy and small-town bigotry, aided by an unforgettable supporting cast.

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Review:

A truly eye-opening comic. The story is set in the South in the early '60s and deals with homophobia, racism and the gay subculture of that period. The art is absolutely beautiful; Cruse is a master of the cross-hatching technique, which gives a certain "texture" to his art work and brings his pages to life. Stuck Rubber Baby is easily the most important comic book since Art Spiegelman's Maus.

About the Author:

Howard Cruse is the founder of Gay Comix and creator of "Wendel," which ran in The Advocate. Stuck Rubber Baby was first published by DC Comics in 1995. A finalist for both an American Library Association Gay/Lesbian Fiction Award and a Lambda Literary Award, it wan both Eisner and Harvey Awards, as well as a UK Comic Art Award and a British Comics Creators Guild Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vertigo
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1401227031
• ISBN 13: 9781401227036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Illustrator: Cruse Howard