Steven Appleby’s August Crimp: the cross-dressing crusader Haiti opposition names interim leader as political crisis deepens
Not all superheroes wear capes: some prefer dresses. Cartoonist Steven Appleby drew on his own cross-dressing to create August Crimp, who transforms into “Dragman” whenever he puts on women’s clothes.
Appleby’s first graphic novel, “Dragman”, won the special jury prize at France’s prestigious Angouleme international comics festival last month.
The hero discovers that putting on women’s clothes makes him able to fly — and his heart soar.
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Yet he is ashamed of his secret passion and decides to ditch his dresses and accessories to be a conventional dad.
But when his young neighbour calls out for his help, it’s time to slap on the makeup and save the day.
“I put things from my experience in my life in the book,” Appleby, wearing deep-red lipstick, a blond wig and elegant black-and-gold dress, told AFP at his south London studio.
The 65-year-old artist said he is “relaxed about pronouns” and goes by “Steven” and “he” but sometimes also “Nancy and “she”.
His studio is a warm, cocoon-like space with candles burning and music playing. There are large drawings on the wall, many of them nudes.
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Like his superhero, Appleby discovered his interest in cross-dressing when he was young, while studying at art college.
The book takes an incident from his own life when he discovered a discarded stocking in his student flat.
“I found the stocking down the back of the sofa and put it on, and I suddenly thought: ‘Oh I could dress up. And then I could look like a girl,’” he said.
He found this enjoyable, but also felt “immediately guilty and full of shame and fear that my flatmates would discover it”.
In another autobiographical detail August Crimp’s wife, Mary, is a carpenter, as was Appleby’s wife, Nicola Sherring, when they met.
They had two children together, are still married and “very good friends”, while no longer a couple, said Appleby,
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It was Sherring who did the watercolours for “Dragman.”
The main difference between Appleby and his hero, he said, is that “I told her I like to dress in women’s clothes when we first met.
“She didn’t mind and then we would go shopping for clothes,” he added.
“Eventually she realised… as well as being a fun thing it was also an obsession and that became more difficult.”
The couple still lives in the same house along with Sherring’s new partner and they raised their children together.
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“Nicola is an amazing person… because she’s able to allow that situation,” he said.
Despite his supportive family, it took a long time for him to accept his identity. He took the plunge around 13 years ago, since when he has only dressed as a woman.
“I think it was fear that stopped me, fear of embarrassing my children,” he said. But in fact they “didn’t really notice”.
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Appleby came up with the idea for “Dragman” in 2002 and began drawing a comic strip in The Guardian daily.
At the time he was still not “out” as a cross-dresser and said the strip was “a way for me to playfully put it into the world without sort of saying ‘I am a transvestite’”.
After the novel “Dragman” came out, Appleby received messages of thanks from other cross-dressers.
“One sent me a message saying that he just told his wife that he liked to wear women’s clothes,” he said, adding that the response was positive.
But he never told his parents. His mother was Canadian and met his English father during World War II.
He grew up in an old vicarage in Northumberland in northeast England, going to boarding school, then art college, he dropped out for two years to play keyboards in a rock group called Ploog.
“All in all it was a disaster but it was fun,” he said.
At the Royal College of Art in London, he was taught by Quentin Blake, who famously illustrated Roald Dahl’s children’s books.
Blake’s advice was to be “true to your own style”.
“Dragman” is Appleby’s ironic take on the superhero comics he enjoyed reading as a child, particularly “Batman”.
“And I think ‘Catwoman’ had an influence on my dressing up,” he added with a cherry-lipped smile.
The Haitian opposition on Monday escalated a constitutional crisis by naming a magistrate as an interim leader for the troubled Caribbean country amid a dispute over when the term of President Jove Moisten ends.
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Political tension was exacerbated on Sunday when Moisten alleged there had been an attempt to overthrow the government and 23 people were arrested, including a Supreme Court judge and a senior police official.
The opposition dismissed the suggestion of a coup attempt, and said Moise should have stepped down on Feb. 7 when it says his five-year term ended.
The president has vowed to stay in power until February 2022, pointing out that an interim administration had governed for a year after he was elected in a disputed poll that was canceled by the electoral council.
Moise took power in 2017 after fresh elections.
Magistrate Joseph Mecene Jean Louis, 72, said in a video message that he had been chosen by the opposition to replace Moise, who the opposition accuses of being authoritarian and presiding over a crippling economic crisis.
“I declare to accept the choice of the opposition and the civil society to be able to serve my country as the provisional president,” Jean Louis said.
Moise, who has ruled by decree since January last year, has stated he would hand over power to the winner of the September presidential election but would not step down until his term expires in 2022.
The United States, which is the biggest donor to Haiti, appears to have backed Moise’s timeline, saying the new president should take office in February next year.
On Monday, Moise held a cabinet meeting and said on Twitter the government is “taking all measures to ensure the safety of the population”.
Haiti’s executive branch, consisting of the president, prime minister and ministers, published a decree announcing three Supreme Court judges who were approached by the opposition to replace Moise as president are to be retired.
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Haiti’s military on Monday said it was concerned about political events but appeared to back Moise, saying it would defend the rule of law and “legitimate authorities democratically elected by the population”.
Earlier in the day, two journalists covering a small protest were shot in the capital and one of them is in a serious condition, according to news outlets and videos uploaded on social media.
Andre Michel, an opposition figure, told Reuters that the opposition would keep up its protests against the government this week.
“The mobilization must continue to force Jovenel Moise to leave office,” Michel said. “We hope that the international community will support our approach.”
