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photographed onto steel plates for printing. Besides cartooning and illustration, I designed and put together the newspaper pages, operate darkrooms, edit and take photographs, design advertising,edit newspaper copy, caption and headline writing, selling classifieds, etc. The challenge and fun of working at a small newspaper then for me was a chance to wear several professional hats. many of these production jobs are now lost to quicker technologies. My bankable skill was operating a photo-stat camera, which reproduced the gray tones in black and white photographs into reproducible dot patterns for the printing process then. Working at these newspapers forged a journalistic ethic for my comix. I learned to be able to edit out what was not necessary for the story, to be able to say a lot with a little. Working alongside reporters taught me the reporting code of " Who- What- Where- Why-When." When a reporter's job was to give the public the facts and let them decide for themselves, instead of interpreting the news for them. I truly am thankful to have been able to work in publishing at that point in time before today's "infotainment." I also was blessed with being able to work with several exceptional editors. Gary
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bedroom, a discovery even more shocking for her when She realized that my artwork was being published in it, and saw my name in the staff box. I had to drop out of high school so I could support myself, and it did all turn out well enough with the help of my friends. SGN publisher and editor George Bakan allowed me a free hand for what subject matter I could draw with my comix. Each week I had a full page to fill, an artistic luxury unheard of for newspaper cartoonists today. A full newspaper page allowed me to cram in detail, experiment with composition and story-telling techniques. Some strips would be very political in content, or just silly and social. I also drew an AIDS serial drama that published for over a year, featuring a ghost and his best living pal. Many of these strips were so topical in content and locked in the politics of the day, that now they don't translate well without extensive foot-notes. That was what I wanted to draw, a comic strip very much a part of it's time. I also worked at SGN with all the aspects of newspaper production.
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head shops which had sold them had shuttered up as consequence of the war on illegal drugs. Comic book stores were then about mostly selling old comic books to collectors, often being children. Most comic book stores avoided selling adult themed material to minors out of fear of being fined or closed down. The United States
Supreme Court had ruled that local communities legally can set the standards of what is labeled as obscene or pornographic, which had a chilling effect for a publishing medium that was aimed mostly then for children. The sales were not good enough for a "Watch Out Comix" # 2, although today old copies of WOC#1 are available through several internet book sale outlets. " Gay Comix" was able to be sold then through a now mostly vanished landscape of small GLBTQ bookstores. Today comic books translate into big box-office movies and graphic novels sold over the counter, what once was treated as a disposable market for children.
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projects, and he absolutely gave good advice that helped make what I was working on then better. Stan and I corresponded, and in those letters I started drawing a little caricature of him. As an in joke I slipped his character into a "Watch Out!" comic strip I was drawing when he visited me in San
Francisco. People responded well to the character, I got good feedback, so I drew Stan into several other strips, and so the Stan Stone legend was born. Real Stan loved his connection with comic Stan Stone, and even collaborated with me by writing a series of Stan Stone comic strips. Stan Stone was a very malleable creation to draw stories around, and became my most popular character. Several times when first meeting me, people who had read the strips would think that I should look like Stan, instead of a long-haired young hippy. Stan passed many years back, so I retired the character. I've toyed with resurrecting it in tribute, perhaps.
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724:" The Tortoise and the Scorpion," a 9 page funny animal AIDS psycho-drama, romance, and transformation. Reprinted in the anthology " No Straight Lines" in 2012. This work also got pirated by a Swedish publishing house several years back, printed directly and translated off of a copy of Gay Comix. By the time I found this out, the publishers had gone bankrupt, and getting anything from that unauthorized use of my comic got tangled in international law. One's creative output can wind up in the most interesting of places.
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706:"Leatherthing," a 5 page comic strip about when leather can go to far, written by Michael Goldberg. This was my first of 3 collaborations with my friend and fellow cartoonist Michael Goldberg. Michael was great to work with, he had a wild imagination, wry wit, and infectious enthusiasm for whatever project at hand. We planned and giggled about many more prospective projects to collaborate on, but the venues of publication too few, and then Michael died.
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712:" Our Love was too Cosmic," a 10 page saga of Radical Faerie love and woe during a Radical Faerie gathering. Written by Michael Goldberg. Page count was always at a premium at Gay comix with a lot of cartoonists wanting in, getting 10 pages to draw was a luxury, and Michael's script was very visual.
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My friend Stan Henry first nudged me to contribute to gay Comix, and GC's editor Howard Cruse gave me a good turn and published my first attempts at creating comic strips. My style then had a very hard, radical street edge to it. The two characters drawn were experiments and this would be their only
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RFD started in the early 1970's as a reader written journal aimed for rural/counterculture Gay Men. Over time it became a Radical Faerie centered publication, and still gets published collectively. Beginning in the early 1980's I would contribute original artwork, including several covers, and my
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EFJ published my "Cascadia" comic strips, and I drew cover and interior artwork to illustrate articles. The editor then is my best friend Leslie, and I used to go to the Earth First journal offices during newspaper production and draw up filler artwork as needed. EFJ on occasion still digs up old
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The Radical faeries began as a loose network of Gay men from the Radical end of the Gay rights pool. Today many non Gay people identify as being a Radical Faerie, which at times places Gay men in the minority of a culture they created as a safe space for their own. For nearly 30 years I've drawn
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I began working at the Seattle Gay News while still in high school in 1979. I had come out as Gay during my senior year at Lincoln high school of Seattle, an action which caused me to get thrown out of my home by my parents. My mother while on a snooping mission found copies of SGN hidden in my
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The Freedom day Committee organizes Seattle's annual GLBTQ Pride Parade. In 1987 I served as Co-Chairperson for the Parade, and drew the Parade poster. I also created handbill art and other promotion artwork for the GLBTQ Parade for other years circa late 1980's.
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collective. I worked off and on at the Passage from 1979 till the paper's demise in 198?. I drew editorial cartoons, cover artwork, article illustration, advertising graphics, page design and production, copy writing, darkroom work, newspaper distribution.
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Hibiscus 1990 A play by Stan Henry about seminal Gay rights activist Hibiscus, AKA George Harris, who became famous when Life magazine published a photograph of him placing flowers into the gun barrels of the National Guard at an anti-Vietnam war protest.
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A 2 page comic strip titled " Stan Stone gets an HIV test." This was a AIDS benefit book including original artwork/comix by both comic book industry name talent and their more obscure underground comix counterparts.
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651:"Restorations" was a bold attempt of mine to draw a story in a style removed from my standard cartoon buffoonery. A simple tale of when two lovers meet, away in a time far from today.
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The Imperial Court has been a National, philanthropic organization of drag performers who for over 50 years have set up drag shows, usually to benefit causes for the GLBTQ community.
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