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Kurt Erichsen
Kurt Erichsen is an openly gay cartoonist and civil engineer, creator of the syndicated LGBT-themed comic strip "Murphy's Manor," his most notable work, which ran for 1183 weekly strips from the 1980s until 2008 and through strip 1205 in 2019.
Erichsen was born on December 18, 1954, in Coos Bay, Oregon. He attended Oregon State University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. The following year he received a master's degree in Sanitary Engineering from Michigan State University. In 1979 he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he became vice president of environmental planning for the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments.
In 1980, he began producing "Murphy's Manor," a comic strip focusing on the lives of gay men living together in the titular manor, in the fictional town of Black Swamp, Ohio. The beginnings of "Murphy's Manor" were difficult. Erichsen's friend gave him a gay bar guide in which the publisher wanted someone to draw cartoons for two newspapers. This did not work out and so Erichsen decided to publish "Murphy's Manor" on his own. The series was carried in about 70 papers over the course of its run, which continued until 2008.
In 2019 Erichsen published Murphy's Manor: the 30-Year Wedding. The book covers gay relationships and the LGBT community's attempts at marriage equality over the years. The 22 new strips are about gay marriage as it finally became legal. "Murphy's Manor" cartoons and "Saboteur" from Gay Comix no. 1 appear in La Revue des Bandes Dessinées LGBT.
Aside from the main series of "Murphy's Manor," there was a side series called "Murphy's Library," which ran from 1987 to 1990 and produced 16 comic strips. Lambda Rising Book Report was where the first 12 comic strips of "Murphy's Library" were published, with the remaining published in Meatmen.
Another series he produced was "The Sparkle Spinsters" about a trio of gay friends, inspired by Gilbert Shelton's Freak Brothers. There were four stories in Gay Comics issues no. 6 (1985), no. 7 (1986), no. 8 (1986), and no. 12 (1988). The respective titles of the stories in the Gay Comics are as follows:
There was one story published in Meatmen issue 19 (1994) titled "The Sparkle Spinsters: Little Red Riding Crop."
He also produced a single-panel syndicated series called "GLIB Talk" from 2000 to 2006. These single-panel comics served as a platform for Erichsen to air his views on gay pride and gay rights.
Kurt Erichsen
Kurt Erichsen is an openly gay cartoonist and civil engineer, creator of the syndicated LGBT-themed comic strip "Murphy's Manor," his most notable work, which ran for 1183 weekly strips from the 1980s until 2008 and through strip 1205 in 2019.
Erichsen was born on December 18, 1954, in Coos Bay, Oregon. He attended Oregon State University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. The following year he received a master's degree in Sanitary Engineering from Michigan State University. In 1979 he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he became vice president of environmental planning for the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments.
In 1980, he began producing "Murphy's Manor," a comic strip focusing on the lives of gay men living together in the titular manor, in the fictional town of Black Swamp, Ohio. The beginnings of "Murphy's Manor" were difficult. Erichsen's friend gave him a gay bar guide in which the publisher wanted someone to draw cartoons for two newspapers. This did not work out and so Erichsen decided to publish "Murphy's Manor" on his own. The series was carried in about 70 papers over the course of its run, which continued until 2008.
In 2019 Erichsen published Murphy's Manor: the 30-Year Wedding. The book covers gay relationships and the LGBT community's attempts at marriage equality over the years. The 22 new strips are about gay marriage as it finally became legal. "Murphy's Manor" cartoons and "Saboteur" from Gay Comix no. 1 appear in La Revue des Bandes Dessinées LGBT.
Aside from the main series of "Murphy's Manor," there was a side series called "Murphy's Library," which ran from 1987 to 1990 and produced 16 comic strips. Lambda Rising Book Report was where the first 12 comic strips of "Murphy's Library" were published, with the remaining published in Meatmen.
Another series he produced was "The Sparkle Spinsters" about a trio of gay friends, inspired by Gilbert Shelton's Freak Brothers. There were four stories in Gay Comics issues no. 6 (1985), no. 7 (1986), no. 8 (1986), and no. 12 (1988). The respective titles of the stories in the Gay Comics are as follows:
There was one story published in Meatmen issue 19 (1994) titled "The Sparkle Spinsters: Little Red Riding Crop."
He also produced a single-panel syndicated series called "GLIB Talk" from 2000 to 2006. These single-panel comics served as a platform for Erichsen to air his views on gay pride and gay rights.