Tag: Howard Cruse

Brazil wins the Fauve D'Or as the Americas take five of the thirteen categories at Angoulême Festival 2022

A multi-panel panel of cartoonists discusses Cruse's legacy.

November 2019 was a tough month for comic industry deaths. On November 13th, we lost "writer, editor, foundational blogger at The Comics Reporter," and Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) executive director Tom Spurgeon. We barely...

My first encounter with Howard Cruse had nothing to do with comics. At the time, in 2005, I was a reporter for the North Adams Transcript and Howard was a new resident. He and...

The industry said goodbye to a true pioneer on Tuesday.

The new hardcover edition is slated for release in May 2020.

News from around, including the most exciting event yet announced at Comic-Con!

The Beat catches up with Howard Cruse for Pride Month.

"I remember the absolute last copy of the first print run, which I sold at Comic-Con. It was to a middle-aged, straight woman who was buying it for her teenage, gay son. She told me that she was getting the book for him because she wanted him to know his history and lineage, and she couldn’t tell that story to him herself. She thanked me for creating the book for the both of them and I promptly burst into tears. Then we hugged it out. It was an incredible moment."

Pioneering cartoonist Jackie Ormes and influential Marvel Marvel marketing manager Carol Kalish have been selected for induction into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2018.   Ormes was the first black female newspaper cartoonist, for the...

CXC, the ambitious third year comics festival located in Columbus, OH, just announced its 2017 guest list, 24 creators from an eclectic swath of the comics world; I picked three names in the headline to express that,...

As is tradition, this year's Eisner Award judges have selected four cartoonists for entry into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. They are: Milt Gross (early newspaper cartoonist known for such strips as Count...