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SPX Presents: NO STRAIGHT LINES: THE RISE OF QUEER COMICS
The road for queer comics from the margins of the underground comics scene to mainstream acceptance was fraught with challenges. The restrictive Comics Code of 1954 censored same-sex images from mainstream comics, and even the comix underground that emerged in the 1960s, supposedly embracing “free love,” initially excluded queerness. NO STRAIGHT LINES chronicles the journeys of five scrappy LGBTQ artists — Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse, Mary Wings, Rupert Kinnard and Jennifer Camper — from their early DIY work to the international stage, offering a fascinating window into everything from the AIDS crisis to the search for love and a good haircut. (Note courtesy of The Film Collaborative.) DIR/PROD Vivian Kleiman; PROD Justin Hall. U.S., 2021, color, 78 min. NOT RATED

Presented in partnership with the Small Press Expo
The Small Press Expo (SPX) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit created in 1994 to promote artists and publishers who produce independent comics. SPX hosts an annual festival that provides a forum for artists, writers and publishers of comic art in its various forms to present to the public comic art not accessible through normal commercial channels. For more info, visit smallpressexpo.com.