Just thought I’d remind y’all that I’ll be at the Alternative Press Expo (APE) in San Francisco this coming month Saturday and Sunday, 4/20 and 4/21. I’ll be selling my books and a tiny little Curbside zine put together specifically for the expo at a table shared with Miss Cathy Camper, who does the sweet toothed’s delight Sugar Needle zine (all about candy); we’ll be in the immediate vicinity of Tim Fish, Justin Hall, Steve MacIsaac, and other fabulous faggy cartoonists all selling and promoting their wares (Andy Hartzell be running his operations there too). Not only that, I’ll be appearing on the Queer Cartoonists panel that Justin heroically puts together every year, and from 7-10 Saturday night will be at a cartoonist’s reading/event at the Three Dollar Bill Cafe (3DB) with Justin, Erika Lopez, Paige Braddock, Tim Fish and Abby Denson. I will be showing my PowerPoint Book of Boy Trouble presentation, and heaven only knows what else we’ll be seeing. It all promises to be an exciting homolicious cartoon extravaganza, so be there if you can.

Last Fall I did a 30 minute interview with the Feast of Fools podcast (from the Chicago area) that seemed to go over well.

Go here and give a listen.

ENGL 197:  
Upper-Division Seminar :  Literature and Gay Male Identity Politics, 1960-2000
Spring 2007
Instructor: Darieck Scott
Meets on: TR 1100-1215  -  SH 2716
Prerequisites: Writing 2, 50, or 109; English 10; or upper-division standing

This course cannot be repeated and is limited to upper-division English majors only.

LITERATURE AND GAY MALE IDENTITY POLITICS, 1960-2000
In this course we will trace the shifts and continuities in modes of literary representation of what we’ll loosely posit as “contemporary American gay male experience” (with a side trip or two to British gay male experience), from pre-Stonewall to the literature of the post-Stonewall gay liberation generation to the mainstreaming of representations of gay men at the end of the 20th century. Amongst the themes/concerns we’ll address during the semester: What, if any, are the defining qualities of Anglo-American gay male fiction? How is the category of “gay male experience” created and defined by these works? How do we see this body of work distinguishing itself from other Anglo-American fiction by men or women? How is what it means to be gay and male enunciated in these texts in relationship to race and class distinctions in American (and British) society?

Texts:
City of Night, John Rechy
Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal
Dancer from the Dance, Andrew Holleran
Ceremonies, Essex Hemphill
Angels in America, Tony Kushner
The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
The Book of Boy Trouble, eds. Robert Kirby and David Kelly

Hi all,

I was handed over control of this site by the webmaster recently and have no clue what I’m doing as of now. but once I DO, please stay tuned for lots of incessant chatter (well, at least more than you’ve been getting): there’ll be lots of cartooning/Boy Trouble/Curbside news coming your way!

Now available from San Francisco’s Green Candy Press, The Book of Boy Trouble, a collection of ‘greatest hits’ comics from the first 4 issues of the Gay Boy Comics Zine With a New Attitude, edited by David Kelly and me. This book also includes spanking new work by many regular contributors and additional artists, including Andy Hartzell, Michael Fahy, Craig Bostick, Anonymous Boy, Justin Hall and Brett Hopkins. Plus 24 pages in full color! Get it here:
Amazon.com

Released in February of 2005, a great comics anthology edited by the mighty Jennifer Camper. I illustrated a 6 page story by Stephen Winter (one of the producers of the acclaimed indie film sensation from Fall 2004, Tarnation). Other contributors include Joan Hilty, Howard Cruse, Ivan Velez, Jr., Leanne Franson and Michael Fahy. Get it here

We’re still all waiting for the long-awaited and currently-delayed Juicy Mother #2, but sources close to me say it should be out in September of 2007 or so, and not from Soft Skull but from Manic D Press. A comics anthology by and about queers, women, and people of color, Juicy Mother Number Two offers a true alternative to alternative comics, a genre dominated by straight white men. This follow-up to the excellent first edition features contributors like Alison Bechdel, Joan Hilty, Howard Cruse, and Ivan Velez Jr. I illustrated a funny little 2 page story by journalist Lawrence Ferber for this edition.

“Curbside” is my bi-weekly cartoon strip that’s been running regularly in the gay and alternative presses since 1991. There are two paperback book collections available. The first book, cleverly titled Curbside, was published in 1998 by Hobnob Press with the aid of a grant from the Xeric Foundation.

Curbside collects the best of the strip’s early, largely autobiographical years, and is still available in discriminating bookstores nationwide.

My second and most recent “Curbside” collection is the graphic novel Curbside Boys, published in October 2002 by San Francisco’s award-winning Cleis Press. Curbside Boys chronicles the bittersweet love affair between Drew, a lonely, aspiring writer, and Nathan, a charming, handsome, but untamed would-be musician, against the backdrop of late 1990’s New York City.

“…it’s as sweet and truthful as you want it to be…There’s not an easy punchline on every page and there’s an unforced bittersweet quality to it, like all good memories ought to have. This is more than just a comic, it’s good storytelling with characters you’ll grow very fond of.”
-Dave White
Instinct magazine

“There is much that is truthful and universal for many readers to recognize in all four characters and their interactions.”
-The Comics Journal

“An unexpected little treasure.”
-The Lambda Book Report

Curbside Boys contains all 120 episodes of the saga of Nathan and Drew - plus their friends Kevin and Rain - and even a little bit of “me,” (though definitely more in the supporting player category this time, as Nathan’s long-suffering best friend, Rob). As I didn’t publish this tome, you cannot get it from me, but you can order the book right now, this minute (please?) by going to www.cleispress.com , or, if you absolutely must go the huge soulless corporate behemoth route, to www.Amazon.com. But really, do it through Cleis, ok? They feature free shipping, and they really do publish a lot of awesomely cool books.
Tell ‘em Rob sent ya (yeah, do it)!

Now available, but only in Spain and thereabouts, the cool Spanish translation of Curbside Boys from Ediciones la Cupula. Yes, it’s true: if you’ve ever wanted to see Nathan and Drew’s tumultuous relationship play out in an entirely different language, now is your chance! Go here.