The couple moved to North Adams, Massachusetts, in 2003, and were married there the following year. Sedarbaum founded the New York activist group Queens Gays and Lesbians United. In 1977, Cruse moved to New York City, where he met Eddie Sedarbaum, his life partner, in April 1979. He attended high school at Indian Springs School in (what is now) Indian Springs, Alabama, and college at Birmingham-Southern College, where he studied drama.Ĭruse worked for about a decade in television. His work later appeared in Fooey and Sick. His earliest published cartoons were in The Baptist Student when he was in high school. Early life Ĭruse was born on May 2, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in nearby Springville, the son of a preacher and a homemaker. 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 reached a more mainstream audience in 1995 when an imprint of DC Comics published his graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby. Howard Cruse (– November 26, 2019) was an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics.
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