Stuck Rubber Baby Alé Mercado ice pick-sharp look at coping

ice pick-sharp look at coping with death

A portrait of womanhood and middle-age

and helps another forest creature with his own flying problems

But a job is a job

Best Book of the Year

Stuck Rubber Baby Alé Mercado ice pick-sharp look at copingBy Howard Cruse. Published by First Second. Hardcover, 240 pages, B&W, 1995. Painstakingly researched and exquisitely illustrated, Stuck Rubber Baby is a groundbreaking graphic novel that draws on Howard Cruses experience coming of age and coming out in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama. This 25th anniversary edition brings this rich and moving tale of identity and resistance is back in printcomplete with an updated introduction from Alison Bechdel, rare