Comics wrer Mark Rsell on revivg a beloved rtoon character a strikg tale of pre-Stonewall gay life
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- DC'S GAY SNAGGLEPS IS NOW OFFICIALLY HANNA-BARBERA CANON
- DC REVIVG HANNA-BARBERA’S ‘SNAGGLEPS’ AS GAY PLAYWRIGHT
DC'S GAY SNAGGLEPS IS NOW OFFICIALLY HANNA-BARBERA CANON
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Mark Rsell has taken on this challenge to great effect and creative succs his DC Comics graphic novel seri "Ex Stage Left: The Snaggleps Chronicl, " which featur the tular Hanna-Barbera character as a gay in and playwright 1950s New York.
DC REVIVG HANNA-BARBERA’S ‘SNAGGLEPS’ AS GAY PLAYWRIGHT
Along wh other characters such as Quick Draw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound, Snaggleps navigat life and love as a member of the gay muny durg the reign of terror that was the Hoe Un-Amerin Activi Commtee and the Red Sre. Rsell also shar the prcipl that motivate his wrg and character-velopment, avoidg stereotyp and gay trop fictn, and the challeng and rewards that e wh livg a life of prciple. For "The Snaggleps Chronicl, " the two pillars that I built that story around were, first, I know that he is a gay in.
That got me thkg about why Snaggleps would have left theater the first place and also what would have been like livg as a gay man New York durg the 1950s, before he got to the rtoon. Wh Snaggleps and the other gay characters such as Quick Draw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound, how did you avoid the trop which are all too often ed to wre about gays and lbians fictn?
You mentned the tragic gay figure who kills himself. More specifilly, Snaggleps was based on Tennsee Williams, both terms of his back story beg a Southern gothic playwright and also livg as a gay man New York. He was anythg but gay.