Robert Kirby (comics artist)
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Robert Kirby is the creator of the syndicated comic Curbside.
Curbside is the story of two young men, Drew, an aspiring writer, and Nathan, an aspiring musician, who meet and eventually form a tumultuous relationship. The comic is syndicated in several periodicals, including Chicago Nightlines, Out In The Mountains, Lavender Magazine and others, as well as on the internet. The series has also been collected into two books.
Robert Kirby's first venture into producing comics was his comic zine Strange Looking Exile, which also featured work by Diane DiMassa, Roberta Gregory, Nick Leonard and Alison Bechdel. The zine ran from 1991 till 1994. At that time, Kirby ended Strange Looking Exile and began producing a new comic zine, Boy Trouble with co-editor David Kelly, a comics anthology that was published from issues one to four as a zine, issue five being released in the form of a book in 2004. Boy Trouble features contributions and collaborations from the editors as well as a number of other artists and writers including Anonymous Boy, Jennifer Camper, Craig Bostick, C. Bard Cole, Michael Fahy, Andy Hartzell, G.B. Jones and others. In 2006, an anthology of the best of Boy Trouble was released, entitled The Book of Boy Trouble.
In the early 2000s, State Representative Nancy Sheltra (R-Derby) protested the presence of the publication Out In The Mountains in the Vermont Statehouse due to its inclusion of Kirby's strip featuring two bare-chested male cartoon characters kissing, which she deemed "pornographic". The paper continued to run Kirby's Curbside.
[edit] Publications
- The Book Of Boy Trouble, edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly, Green Candy Press, 2006 ISBN 1-931160-45-7
- Los Chicos De la Acera De Enfrente, Ediciones La Cúpula, Colección Novela Gráfica, 2005
- Juicy Mother, edited by Jennifer Camper, Soft Skull Press, 2005, ISBN 1-932360-70-0
- Boy Trouble, edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly, Boy Trouble Books, 2004, ISBN 0-9748855-0-9
- Curbside Boys: The New York Years, Cleis Press, 2002, ISBN 1-57344-154-6
- Curbside, Hobnob Press, NY, 1989, ISBN 0-9663241-0-2
