Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/N. Leigh Dunlap

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The result was keep. Additional sources are found which make it a solid keep (non-admin closure) scope_creep^Talk 03:55, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

N. Leigh Dunlap

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Can find almost no coverage on the subject. Note tag and references are dubious at best. No real secondary sourcing. Fails WP:SIGCOV, WP:BIO. scope_creep^Talk 11:30, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists and Women. Shellwood (talk) 13:27, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.. Skynxnex (talk) 16:27, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
keep per the multiple sources identified in the comments below. Meets AUTHOR. Oaktree b (talk) 19:24, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:NAUTHOR The sourcing is a bit harder to find than usual but there's real material out there:

From the DC Public Library Washington Blade archive: N. Leigh Dunlap: The broad-brimmed Morgan Calabrese retired by Kennedy Smith, December 6, 1991: "Born" in the Philadelphia Gay News, N. Leigh Dunlap's cartoon persona Morgan Calabrese was a pioneer among Gay male and Lesbian cartoon characters, breaking ground in syndication and visibility. Regrettably, Morgan — who bore a striking resemblance to Dunlap herself — bit the dust last year when Dunlap gave up professional cartooning to become a full-time coffee retailer.

Washington Blade apparently reviewed Morgan Calabrese: The Movie positively but I can only find ads quoting the Blade but it's something: [1]: "Morgan is truly the gay movement’s Doonesbury. Dunlap muses over crushes, holidays and breaking up with gentle humor and touching insight."—The Washington Blade

From Women's glib : a collection of women's humor book (internet archive library link), 1998: N. LEIGH DUNLAP is a two-time winner of the International Gay and Lesbian Press Association’s “Outstanding Achievement” Award and the author of two book collections: Morgan Calabresé: The Movie;and Run That Sucker at Six!!!. The second book was a Lambda Literary Award nominee. Her weekly strip, Morgan Calabresé, is syndicated and appears regularly in ten papers around the U.S., with additional biographical details in a few follow sentences.

This review in the Seattle Gay News, Friday, October 9, 1992 of Women's Glib specifically mentions Leigh being included: The Lesbian humor fares best, as with N. Leigh Dunlaps' butch dyke ...

And her bio remains in Women's glibber : state-of-the-art women's humor book (internet archive library link), 1992.

In Outweek, No. 48, "Designing Women: Challenging he rules of aesthetics and property, lesbian cartoonists flourish in the gay press" by Anne Rubenstein where there's a pretty hefty paragraph One comic strip that does not appear here is N. Leigh Dunlap's Morgan Calabrese, which chronicles the adventures of the eponymous dyke and her gay male friend Phil The strip first appeared in The Washington Blade and now runs in eight lesbian and gay papers nationwide. ... Although New Yorkers may not have seen it yet, Morgan Calabrese has won awards from the Gay and Lesbian Press Association, and Dunlap's second collection was just nominated for a Lambda literary Award. Dunlap's work is funny, while "avoiding Gay Humor 101, the same old jokes."

A multi-paragraph review in Gay Community News Vol. 17, No. 03 of Run that Sucker at SIX!!!.

A comic of hers was featured in Breakthrough, Volume XIV, No. 1, Winter 1990.

Her comics were featured in A century of women cartoonists, 1993.

This is mostly just routine coverage of her coffee roasting business she co-started but the Daily Hampshire Gazette did cover it and mention her specifically several times: [2], Monday, January 15, 1990.

It appears there's probably more to find in the Washington Blade archives or other archives of LGBT newspapers of the era but there are enough ads included of her books it's hard to find articles about her, but as you see above they exist. Skynxnex (talk) 17:25, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Keep - it appears she is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors per WP:AUTHOR, and this article could be further developed with better access to sources. At the Wikipedia Library, I found a citation for a 1989 book review in Booklist (via Gale) titled "Run That Sucker at Six!!!". Accessing sources is a bit of a challenge; for example, the book Gay Press, Gay Power is cited several times in the article but previews are not available via GBooks. Also on GBooks, it is difficult to determine the depth of coverage with the limited previews, but e.g. she is mentioned at p. 147 in Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda and p. 248 in Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, and several times in Women's Glib: A Collection of Women's Humor (e.g. "N. Leigh Dunlap is a two-time winner of the International Gay and Lesbian..."), also at p.71 in Women's Glibber: State-of-the-art Women's Humor, p.25 of WLW Journal, Volume 14, a description of some of her work in Lesbian Stages: Plays, mentioned in Tales from the Dyke Side, and at pp. 174 and 176 in A Century of Women Cartoonists. Beccaynr (talk) 17:47, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I think thats fine. Nomination Withdrawn. scope_creep^Talk 20:53, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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