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© 2003 Howard Cruse
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Howard Cruse began drawing ducks at an early age, his interest being piqued by the curious fact that Donald's beak was significantly flatter than Daffys, with Baby Huey's being disturbingly underdeveloped because of unacknowledged species discordancy. Inspired by such mysteries, Cruse subsequently grew to adulthood and became a professional cartoonist. His first underground comic book submission (quickly and appropriate rejected) featured a duck named George, whose humor publisher Denis Kitchen correctly found "perhaps a bit obscure." Cruse bounced back with Barefootz, a duckless cockroach-centric series, which Kitchen Sink Comix began publishing in 1972. The rest is history.
In the early-'80s Cruse drew Doctor Duck comic strips for Bananas magazine, illustrating scripts penned by the magazine's witty editor "Jovial Bob Stine." Stine later changed his name to R. L. Stine and, as the author of the famed Goosebumps books, became a millionaire. Cruse did not.
There are no ducks in Cruse's Eisner award-winning graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby (translated since it's 1995 debut into three languages with a fourth translation now in production), and his most recent book Wendel All Together is also duck-free. One Wendel edisode does have a smurf in it, though, if
that helps.
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