#rick fiala

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Rick Fiala & Gerard Donelan artworks

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Rick Fiala for Christopher Street | 1978

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🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ Pride Mags #27: Christopher Street, 1976-95.

Published monthly in New York City, 1976-95, for a national audience. Owned and edited by Charles Orleb, who also published the biweekly New York Native newspaper, Christopher Street was conceived as the gay version of The New Yorker, and featured fiction, essays, reviews, art, photography and cartoons. The founding art director was Rick Fiala, a prolific illustrator and cartoonist who created many of the magazine's cartoons, using a variety of styles and pseudonyms. While later cover designs owed much to the style of Milton Glaser's New York magazine look, early issues were more New Yorker-like, with illustrations and no cover lines. In later years Christopher Street and the New York Native devoted considerable space to publisher Orleb's fringe conspiracy theories about the AIDS virus, and both publications became increasingly isolated from the gay community.

Cover illustration by David Edward Byrd.

Excerpts from the Christopher Street cartoon collection.

A light history of Christopher Street with some nifty covers.

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