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DC Comics, writer Mark Russell, and artist Mike Feenan are turning the classic Hanna-Barbera character, Snagglepuss, gay in their new series Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles. With a new play about to open, Snagglepuss is in a sham marriage while his friend Huckleberry Hound is similarly living a lie and in a relationship with police officer Quick Draw McGraw.

Buy in print online here. Are we forever doomed to repeat the same cycles of oppression and toxicity? But for the most part the humour is forever soaked in a claustrophobic grimness as Russell weaves historical events and locales like the Stonewall Inn, nuclear weapons, Cuba, and the execution of the Rosenbergs into the tale.

Obviously, due to censorship and homophobia, there couldn't be any LGBT characters on TV or in film back in the day, much less positive ones. Mark Russell has proved himself time and again as both a great satirist and an incisive social commentator.

DC Comics is making subtext textual with its upcoming comic book series about Hanna-Barbera’s classic cartoon character Snagglepuss. Despite its unlikely source material this remains one of the most vitally important releases in queer comics genre fiction in recent years.

Snagglepuss, LGBT hero: Legendary Hanna-Barbera character reborn in new comic series Comics writer Mark Russell on reviving a beloved cartoon character in a striking tale of pre-Stonewall gay life. Like that offering Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles also deals with ideas of gay erasure, albeit from a somewhat different perspective.

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It fully deserved the multiple awards that it went on to win including a Broken Frontier Award for Best Limited Series. Mark Russell and Steve Pugh's take on The Flintstones was some of the smartest social satire ofand Scooby Apocalypse by Keith Giffen, J.M.

DeMatteis, and artists beginning with Howard Porter has. Russell imbues Snagglepuus with a jaded, worldweary line in cynical dialogue, a constant stream of epigrams delivered with a Wildean flourish. What responsibilities does the individual have to stand up to discrimination when in doing so they will endanger their own safety?

Our mission - Join us. Anthropomorphism as a storytelling device, of course, is an expressive tool with a wonderfully cutting storytelling edge, given that by wrapping very real human traits up in the trappings of the feline or the canine that humanity becomes all the more pronounced.

Over the last few years, Hanna-Barbera has given DC Comics carte blanche to re-invent its iconic cartoon characters, leading to some unexpected evolutions and truly extraordinary stories. This, of course, is no mean feat given that the cartoon leads have more expressively restricted features and thus their body language becomes just as important in communicating their feelings and moods at any given time.

Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, written by Mark. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Read our Pride articles all in one place here. What possesses someone to persecute a marginalised group despite being part of that group themselves?

Here, I will be speaking on Hanna-Barbera's relationship to a group I'm a part of -- the LGBT community. About us Broken Frontier is a comic book and graphic novel news site established in Our international team of staff writers covers quality stories from all corners of the comics universe, with a penchant for independent and creator-owned material.

Set in Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles recasts Snagglepuss as a gay, Southern playwright in an era when the Red Menace is supposedly everywhere and the House Un-American Activities Committee has set its sights on rooting out subversive elements in showbusiness.

Moral and socio-political questions abound. In an age of relatively easy digital accessibility for serial comics this also allows us to add coverage of these titles to our Broken Frontier Resource Lists.

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One of the opportunities that our Pride Month celebrations provide each year is allowing us to revisit work that we may have missed the first time around. While the DC Hanna-Barbera line was launched to sceptical reaction, and not every series was a winner, it threw up a number of unlikely gems, including The Flintstones also written by Russell and Scooby Apocalypse.

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