Gay cartoonist Howard Cruse has many competing sides! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob

Today's Guest: Howard Cruse, cartoonist, Stuck Rubber Baby, The Other Sides of Howard Cruse, The Essential Howard Cruse: A Reader, From Headrack to Claude
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of cartoon characters largely abandoned in the 1970s but praying for a revival any day now… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

My dad once said that nothing bad would ever happen to me because I could always turn around and write about it, thus finding some good in any situation.

He might as well have been talking about my friend, gay cartoonist Howard Cruse.

Every time I turn around, it seems that Howard has unleashed another collection of his wonderful underground cartoons and comic strips.
HOWARD CRUSE audio excerpt: "When I was in high school, I had a (sexual identity) crisis. Unfortunately, I had a therapist who was homophobic. He said, 'You're not gay; you just spent too much time going to an all-boys boarding school.' He said, 'Be sure to go to a co-ed college and it will all sort itself out.'"
You can LISTEN to this interview with gay underground cartoonist HOWARD CRUSE, author of The Other Sides of Howard Cruse, by clicking the audio player above!

That speaks to a deep archive of quality content he’s created, of course, but also to never letting any slight or perception of wrong going unrewarded by revealing it in his art.

Or I could be making this all up as I go along… which I suppose could also be a trait of Howard’s!

Howard’s newest raid on the archives is The Other Sides of Howard Cruse. It includes a big helping of his beloved Barefootz strip—which means cockroaches, frogs, sexually frustrated Dolly and is-he-or-isn’t-he Headrack. Then we get introduced to Shearwell the sheep, the squirrels of Tops & Button, Big Marvy, and yes, even “The Nightmares of Little Lulu.” There is plenty of the underground, stoner, sex-starved humor for which he is famous, as