Portland, Oregon
INSIDE:
The ramifications of
the OCA ballot
measure
(P. 8)
CHUMS
From the City of Roses
to the City by the Bay,
former Portlander
Rupert Kinnaid along
with Diva Touché
Flambé and the Brown
Bomber, explode
upon a national
consciousness with a
newly published
collection of
Cathartic Comics.
artooning
has long
been a
means of
illuminating
life, lampooning its
absurdities and commenting
on contemporary politics.
Gay male humor, as
expressed by comic art. is
stuck between the ridiculous
and the reprehensible. A
notable exception is the work
of Professor IB Gittendowne,
the alter ego of Rupert
Kinnard, whose Cathartic
Comics have appeared in the
San Francisco Sentinel, the
SF Weekly and Just Out
Rupert Kinnard, the
Brown Bomber, and the
Diva Touché Flambé will
garnish the largest
exposure yet with the
release of an anthology of
the strips published by
Alyson Publications called
BB and the Diva: A Collection
of Cathartic Comics.
Al Cunningham interviews
Kinnard in San Francisco
where Kinnard is the art
director for the national
. lesbian and gay quarterly
magazine, OutLook.
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