Description: A career-spanning biography of a central and significant figure in queer comics
Brief description: Janine Utell is author of several books, most recently Literary Couples and 20th-Century Life Writing: Narrative and Intimacy, and editor of The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In, published by University Press of Mississippi, and Teaching Modernist Women's Writing in English. Utell serves as editor for "Orientations," a forum dedicated to queer and feminist modernist studies for Modernism/modernity. She also currently serves as president for the Modernist Studies Association.
Review Quotes: Howard Cruse is a compelling and moving narrative that puts Cruse in his rightful place as a significant figure in late twentieth-century comics history, LGBTQIA+ history, and US culture in general.--Andrew J. Kunka, author of The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth