Howard Cruise

This interview was conducted in 1999 by Josh Latham.

Howard Cruse is an exceptional cartoonist and an important participant in the underground comic movement. Well known for strips like Wendel and Barefootz. In 1995 he released his now award winning graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby.

Let’s begin!
BV: What got you started in comics?

HC: I started off wanting to do newspaper comic strips, but then began using my characters (mainly Barefootz, in the beginning) in longer stories because Denis Kitchen at Kitchen Sink Comix was willing to include them in the underground comic books he was publishing in the early 1970s. Although I continue to do short comic strips from time to time, I’ve really become addicted to the greater amount of room you have in comic books to develop your stories and characters in subtle, detailed ways.

BV: What comic books did you read when you were younger?

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