Bruce_Billings_(cartoonist)

Bruce Billings (cartoonist)

Bruce Billings (cartoonist)

American cartoonist

Bruce Billings is an openly gay cartoonist, creator of the LGBT-themed comic strip Castro, which ran in the 1970s and 1980s in San Francisco gay newspapers such as The Voice.[1] Castro nominally starred a dog (based on Billings') who lived in the Castro Street neighborhood of San Francisco with his owner (based on Billings himself), and the strip affectionately lampooned the gay male culture of the city. The strips were reprinted in Gay Comix, Meatmen, and Strip AIDS USA.[2][3][4] In 1989, Billings and cartoonist Kurt Erichsen co-produced a flip book – a single bound volume with both covers formatted as the "front" – as Between the Sheets! (Billings' cover) and Under the Covers (Erichsen's).[5][6] Billings retired to southern Oregon.[7]

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Cover of Between the Sheets/Under the Covers by Bruce Billings and Kurt Erichsen

References

  1. [1]
    http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/sfbagals/Voice/1981_Voice_Vol03_No04_Feb_13.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. [2]
    "The Last Underground Cartoonist?: A Q&A with Robert Triptow |". 29 February 2016. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
  3. [3]
    "Strip AIDS U.S.A." Grand Comics Database. Archived from the original on 2010-08-09. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Index to Comic Art Collection: "Billboard" to "Billville"". comics.lib.msu.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
  5. [5]
    CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies (2016-09-08), Queers & Comics: Pioneers of Queer Men's Comics, retrieved 2017-01-23
  6. [6]
    Kawasaki, Anton. "The 1980s – GAY LEAGUE". Retrieved 2019-10-11.
  7. [7]
    Mangels, Andy, ed. (Spring 1998). "#25". Gay Comics. Bob Ross. p. 72.


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