Pamela Mullin, writing on Vertigo’s Graphic Content blog, noted that the comics imprint will reissue a new volume of early gay comics pioneer Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber Baby graphic novel. The new edition will contain an introduction by Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home. Mullin gives only 2010 as a publication date.

Set during the civil rights movements in the 1960s, Stuck Rubber Baby is the story of a young man who comes to terms with his homosexuality while he fights for civil rights for African Americans. A new edition of this book seems poignant in the aftermath of Proposition 8′s passage and the confusion and high emotions felt by some in the LGBT community that it had become a lightning rod for prejudice at worst and let down at best.

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Tags: gay, Howard Cruse, Vertigo

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