![]() ![]() a generational story about recent progress.” “It’s mostly about this generational transmission and the political changes that have happened over the past 40 years or so. “I’m amazed about how much material is in the film,” said Bechdel, whose New York Times bestselling 2006 graphic novel Fun Home was adapted into a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical. ![]() It then follows that story down through the generations, integrating the careers of later creators like Alison Bechdel and the Gen Z artists who are again redefining how the LGBTQ+ comics world looks and where it is found. It tells how a foundational generation of artists, including Howard Cruse, Mary Wings, Jennifer Camper and Rupert Kinnard, fought against censorship of their very existence by creating and distributing their own comics in the 1960s and 70s. ![]() No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics, the Peabody award-winning film-maker Vivian Kleiman’s latest documentary, is about how comics became a site in the struggle for queer people to have room to exist. ![]() Those spaces have not always been so easy to find, and creativity has been essential. ![]()
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