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Original Title: Stuck Rubber Baby
ISBN: 1563892553 (ISBN13: 9781563892554)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Stonewall Book Award Nominee for Literature (1996), Harvey Awards for Best Graphic Album of Original Work (1996), Prix du Festival d'Angoulême for Prix de la critique (2002), Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Photography/Visual Arts (1996), Premio a la mejor novela gráfica en los Premios Comic Art (UK) Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album-New & Best Editor (1996)
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Stuck Rubber Baby Paperback | Pages: 216 pages
Rating: 4.02 | 4754 Users | 238 Reviews

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Title:Stuck Rubber Baby
Author:Howard Cruse
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 216 pages
Published:March 1st 2000 by DC Comics (first published 1995)
Categories:Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. GLBT. Queer. Fiction. LGBT. Historical. Historical Fiction

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Art and story combine powerfully in this lyrical tale of a young man caught in the maelstrom of the civil rights movement and the entrenched homophobia of small-town America. Toland Polk, the son of an uneducated white carpenter, has grown up in the Southern town of Clayfield. It is the 1960s, a time of passionate beliefs and violent emotions, and Clayfield's citizens are divided in the fight over segregation. As Toland fights on the side of the civil rights activists, he slowly begins to realize that he also has a more personal battle - to accept that he is gay.

With a subtle yet intricate plot, and distinctively evocative illustrations, "Stuck Rubber Baby" is an unflinching honest look at one man's world of fears, dreams, and prejudice.

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This is one that sat on my shelves for many years. I knew it was acclaimed, but Cruse's Wendel had never appealed to me and even now as I write a 5-star review for Stuck Rubber Baby, I can't say that his art in this book is particularly appealing to me, either. There's so much cross-hatching that even quiet panels often look too dark and unnecessarily busy (a panel showing two men in a shower made me wonder what sort of skin condition - or fur - was being shown), and everyone looks like a kind

I might be biased, but I actually think this story would have benefited from a book format instead of a graphic format. The characters were too convoluted and there was too much going on that made the story seem endless. It could have been neatened and tightened up in a book format and had the same affect of relaying the time period (Civil Rights Movement of the 60's) with the tumultuous discovery of one's sexual identity.

I've always liked Howard Cruse's work, ever since I first encountered it when I came out. His struggles to express his own truth touches on such universal truths that I can't help feeling I know him intimately, although I mostly know him through his comics. Someday I hope to meet him in person."Stuck Rubber Baby" (SRB) is a tour de force, mixing tales of the human rights struggles of the sixties with the Jazz music scene of the south, this is an amazing work of fiction. I almost would give it

Howard Cruse's graphic novel about one man's experiences during the 1960's civil rights movement is brimming with details. BUT...that's not ALWAYS a good thing...Toland Polk tells of his involvement in the struggles for equality during those troubled times in American history. He also relates the l-o-n-g, s-l-o-w discovery of his true sexual identity. I don't know if EVERY single conversation he EVER held with EVERYBODY is depicted, but it sure seems that way. There are too many characters and

I'm re-reading this since I'm teaching it. It's fun to teach a graphic novel since the students are so attuned to images. This book is very rich with a lot of subplots. It takes place during the Civil Rights Movement in the South and has a mix of characters, black and white, straight and gay. It explores the overlaps between race and sexuality.

I tend to be wary of memoirs about the White Middle Class American Male Experience (gay or otherwise), especially those set against the backdrop of a powerful political moment (in this case, the Civil Rights Movement). The magnitude of these events (and the people who made them happen) is diminished, to say the least, with the emphasis instead placed on how All This Has Changed Our Precious Boy. Now, while Stuck Rubber Baby isn't without its problems, I appreciate that Howard Cruse makes his

Simply one of the best books I have read in a long time -- an example of how amazing graphic novels CAN be when they try. This is the story of Toland, a young white man coming of age in the deep South at the dawning of the civil rights movement -- and trying to come to terms with his homosexuality. All of the characters are vivid, complex and fully realized -- even the minor characters. I especially enjoyed Cruse's portrayal of Ginger -- Toland's girlfriend who is a folk singer and headstrong,