{"id":4407,"date":"2019-12-14T20:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T01:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2019-12-14T20:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T01:35:20","slug":"gay-comic-artist-howard-cruse-creator-of-wendel-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4407","title":{"rendered":"Gay Comic Artist Howard Cruse, Creator of &#8216;Wendel,&#8217; Dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Acclaimed gay cartoonist Howard Cruse, whose strip ?Wendel? graced the pages of&nbsp;<em>The Advocate<\/em>in the 1980s, died of cancer November 26 in North Adams, Mass., surrounded by friends and family, his daughter, Kimberly Kolze Venter,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kkventer\/posts\/10218247379948704\" target=\"_blank\">announced on Facebook.<\/a>&nbsp;He was 75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/people\/2019\/12\/03\/gay-comic-artist-howard-cruse-creator-wendel-dies-75\">https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/people\/2019\/12\/03\/gay-comic-artist-howard-cruse-creator-wendel-dies-75<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed gay cartoonist Howard Cruse, whose strip ?Wendel? graced the pages of&nbsp;The Advocatein the 1980s, died of cancer November 26 in North Adams, Mass., surrounded by friends and family, his daughter, Kimberly Kolze Venter,&nbsp;announced on Facebook.&nbsp;He was 75. https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/people\/2019\/12\/03\/gay-comic-artist-howard-cruse-creator-wendel-dies-75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":4408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,64,59,769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-in-memoriam","category-people","category-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}