No Straight Lines | Queer Comics and LGBTQ+ Cartoonists Who Broke Through
A Compadre Media Group Production
NO STRAIGHT LINES: THE RISE OF QUEER COMICS
Dedicated to the gentle vision and boundless creativity of Howard Cruse (1943-2019)
Director & Producer
Vivian Kleiman
Featuring
Alison Bechdel
Jennifer Camper
Howard Cruse
Rupert Kinnard
Mary Wings
Producer & Principal Consultant
Justin Hall
Edited by
Christiane Badgley
Linda Peckham
Also Featuring
Alex Combs
Dylan Edwards
Nicole Georges
Sina Grace
Emeric Kennard
Denis Kitchen
Maia Kobabe
Lawrence Lindell
Ajuan Mance
MariNaomi
Breena Nuñez
Carlo Quispe
Meggie Ramm
Taneka Stotts
Anand Vedawala
Ivan Velez, Jr.
Gaia Wxyz
Executive Producers
Ellen Poss
Gerald Herman
Cort Lane
Greg Sirota
Consulting Producers
Vicky Funari
Jason Cohn
Jenni Olson
Contributing Producers
Abe Rybeck
Abby Ginzburg
Tracy Gary
Director of Photography
Andrew Black
Original Music
René-Marc Bini
Editions: Altynaï
Art Director & Animator
Suzanne Slatcher
Associate Producer
Cassandra Dreher
Location Sound
Judy Karp
Dan Mazur
Lauretta Molitor
Anna Rieke
Andy Turett
Production Coordinators
Kat Renée Cole
Jennifer Petrucelli
Lauren Kawana
Production Assistants
Kevin Chap
Samuel Isaias
Sandy Melara
Sandra Thomas
Kayla Velloso
Still Photographer
Kim Wetzel
Artwork by
Ajuan Mance
Akshay Varaham
Alex L. Combs
Alex Woolfson
Alison Bechdel
Anand Vedawala
Andrea Natalie
Anthony Gonzalez
Art Spiegelman
Beowulf Thorne
Breena Nuñez
Bishakh Som
Burton Clarke
Carl Vaughn Frick
Carlo Quispe
Charles Ortlieb
Chelsey Furedi
Chrystin Garland
Christine Smith
Chuck McKinney
Craig Bostick
Dale Messick
David Wojnarowicz
Denis Kitchen
Diane DiMassa
Donelan
Dylan Edwards
Ed Luce
Edie Fake
Emeric Kennard
Emil Ferris
Eric Orner
Gaia Wxyz
Gary Scott Beatty
Gilbert Shelton
Howard Cruse
Ivan Velez, Jr.
Jack Kirby
James Romberger
Jennifer Camper
Jerry Mills
Joan Hilty
Joe Johnson
John Callahan
Judd Winick
Justin Hall
Karen Platt
Kate Leth
Kris Kovick
Lawrence Lindell
Leanne Franson
Lee Marrs
Leslie Ewing
Levi Hastings
Maia Kobabe
Marguerite Van Cook
MariNaomi
Mario Cesar
Martin Ramos (Chino)
Mary Wings
Meggie Ramm
Melanie Gillman
Michelle Gruben
Mike Funk
Milton Caniff
MK Czerwiec
Nicole Georges
Noelle Stevenson
Paige Braddock
Ria Martinez
Richard Sciala
Robert Crumb
Robert Kirby
Robert Triptow
Roberta Gregory
Rupert Kinnard
Sina Grace
Spain Rodriguez
Steve MacIsaac
Taneka Stotts
Theo van den Boogaard
Tom of Finland
Trina Robbins
Victor Moscone
William Stout
Post Production Supervisor
Cassandra Dreher
Additional Editors
Keith Wilson
Greg Sirota
Assistant Editor
Hilary Brashear
Archival Research
Lauren Kawana
Jennifer Petrucelli
Motion Graphics
Chris Hawkinson
Yssa Badiola
Graphic Design
Barbara Oplinger
Sound Stage
The Producer’s Loft Studio – SF
Color Grading
Lateral Films
Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer
Brandon Proctor
Transcribers
Eli Bishop
Meggie Ramm
Social Media Consultant
Charles “Zan” Christensen
Advisors
Hillary Chute, PhD
Ramzi Fawaz, PhD
Legal Counsel
Sandra Forman
Music
“Tribute to Industry”
Written by Mary Kelley
Mary Kelley: Guitar and vocals
Kathy Peck: Bass and vocals
Debbie Hopkins: Drums and backing vocals
Published by Q & D Music, Inc.
Performed by the Contractions
Recorded live at SIR, 1981
© 1979 Methylethylketone Music (BMI)
“Bonus Track”
Mary Kelley: Guitar and vocals
Kathy Peck: Bass and vocals
Debbie Hopkins: Drums and backing vocals
Sara McNair: Saxophone
Published by Q & D Music, Inc.
Performed by the Contractions
© 1980 the Contractions
"I Feel Love"
"Kickin In Inst"
"Spiked Punch"
Composed and performed by Patrick Cowley
Courtesy of Dark Entries Records
"Ring of Keys"
From FUN HOME
Music by Jeanine Tesori and
Lyrics by Lisa Kron
Performed by Sydney Lucas
Tony Awards 2015
"Ce qu’il faut pas faire pour être heureux"
"La Cigogne""
Music by Robert Marcel Lepage
© Folivari / Les Editions du 22 décembre
(p) © FOLIVARI / PANIQUE!/ STUDIOCANAL / RTBF / VOO / Be tv
Licensed courtesy of 22D
"bingeing on art"
"Jamany"
Composed and performed by
Todd Boekelheide
Additional Music
Courtesy of APM
In memory of Kim Wetzel
who was taken by the coronavirus
(Sept 1969 - March 2020)
Special Thanks
Emmalee Aliquo
Reyna Cowan
Fantagraphics Books
Spencer and Marguerite Hall
Bill Jersey
Margaret Miller
Christopher Nash
Prism Comics
Eddie Sedarbaum San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum
Scott Stapley
Holly Taylor Dan Zeitman
Fiscal Sponsor
Catticus Corporation
No Straight Lines Funding Provided by
Robert Holgate through the Horizons Foundation
Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
Jayne Baron Sherman through the Our Fund Foundation
John Williams & Dewitt Hart through the Horizons Foundation
California Humanities
San Francisco Foundation
Susan Bernstein
Berkeley FILM Foundation
Weston Milliken through the Tides Foundation
Marcy Adelman
Hannah Kranzberg
Frameline Completion Fund
And others, a complete list is available from PBS.
Original Series Funding Provided by
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Acton Family Giving
Ford Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Wyncote Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
This program was produced by Compadre Media Group, Inc., which is solely responsible for its content.
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