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Wendel
The Groundbreaking comic strip about the gays next door.
256 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1985
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Howard Cruse
52 books20 followersHoward Cruse was an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics.
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January 5, 2021
"The groundbreaking comic strip about the gays next door."
Howard Cruse, the founding editor of Gay Comix, produced his famous Wendel comic strip for The Advocate back in 1983.
This compilation features all fifty as they appeared in the Advocate series with a few extras added.
"Wendel Trupstock and Ollie Chalmers are in love, and they don't care WHAT the First Holy Church of the Bellicose Rapture thinks about it! ---- Ollie's son Farley (secretly the famous crime fighter Branman) visits on weekends. Ollie's childhood chum Sterno visits permanently. ---- Wendel works in the mail room of Effluvia magazine and writes stories about Yuxrob insurgents. Ollie works at the Quick-Zip Copy Shop and dreams of footlights. ---- Then there's Deb and her girlfriend Tina and Wendel's mom and dad and the folks at the Masks-'n-Flats Community Theatre and the gang at Gayblaze ......"
'Wendel' ("the guy with the thatched-roof hair") is a sweet, loveable character created at the time
when Gay Lib was in full swing with exciting new encounters around every corner tinged with the curious innocence of being out and about in the new gay universe.
The strips are delightfully drawn in Cruse's unique cartoon style and are cute with slyly pertinent storylines for the times (1983-85), still very much relevant 35 years later.
Times may change but people's foibles rarely do.
Howard Cruse, the founding editor of Gay Comix, produced his famous Wendel comic strip for The Advocate back in 1983.
This compilation features all fifty as they appeared in the Advocate series with a few extras added.
"Wendel Trupstock and Ollie Chalmers are in love, and they don't care WHAT the First Holy Church of the Bellicose Rapture thinks about it! ---- Ollie's son Farley (secretly the famous crime fighter Branman) visits on weekends. Ollie's childhood chum Sterno visits permanently. ---- Wendel works in the mail room of Effluvia magazine and writes stories about Yuxrob insurgents. Ollie works at the Quick-Zip Copy Shop and dreams of footlights. ---- Then there's Deb and her girlfriend Tina and Wendel's mom and dad and the folks at the Masks-'n-Flats Community Theatre and the gang at Gayblaze ......"
'Wendel' ("the guy with the thatched-roof hair") is a sweet, loveable character created at the time
when Gay Lib was in full swing with exciting new encounters around every corner tinged with the curious innocence of being out and about in the new gay universe.
The strips are delightfully drawn in Cruse's unique cartoon style and are cute with slyly pertinent storylines for the times (1983-85), still very much relevant 35 years later.
Times may change but people's foibles rarely do.
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