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Howard Cruse Art: “STUCK RUBBER BABY” PAGE 4 (1994); Mounted
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HOWARD
CRUSE ORIGINAL ART
Title/date/description:
“STUCK RUBBER BABY” PAGE 4 (1994); Mounted
One of the very earliest pages in this award-winning
masterpiece. Toland Polk talks
to his sister Melanie about
their parents’ relative illiteracy. At the funeral
Toland talks to his family's African-American
gardener Stetson but
while doing so can’t help imagining what his skull
would look like if battered like Emmett
Till’s. An especially moving page out of
a graphic novel with many moving moments.
Size/medium/condition: 18 x 24
inches (45.7 x 61 cm). Ink (brush
& Rapidograph) on heavy Bristol board. Toland’s
face in panel one is original, but carefully pasted
on to the page, as are the title and spine of
the Social Darwinism book and
Melanie’s nose and mouth in panel 3. The top portion
of the 7th panel is also a paste-up, but these are
all done vary carefully and the full page is still
quite nice and no defects are readily apparent.
Howard drew his Stuck Rubber Baby pages
quite large, so they make great displays.
This original is MOUNTED on black Foamcore and
shrink-wrapped with a hanger,
as done by Howard himself for an exhibition a
few years ago. We will ship it carefully protected,
as mounted, unless you specify otherwise. Excellent
condition.
Price: $850 (mounted
as described)
Provenance: Warranted to be
authentic and from the estate of Howard Cruse, which the
DKAA agency exclusively represents.
Further reference: Howard
Cruse (1944-2019) was an
American cartoonist best
known for humor and gay themes. First coming to
attention in the 1970s during the underground
comix movement with Barefootz,
he was the founding editor of Gay Comix in
1980, created the gay-themed strip Wendel during
the 1980s, and he reached a more mainstream audience
in 1995 with his masterwork Stuck
Rubber Baby (published in an anniversary edition
in 2020 by First Second).
We have art from Cruse’s full career. If you don’t see
what you’re looking for in this web gallery, contact
us at help@deniskitchen.com and
we can tell you if what you seek is in our larger
inventory.
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