Okay, I shared the shitty review one of my books got just below, and today I thought I would post a really nice (and I think quite perceptive - see highlighted text) blurb that Minneapolis’ alternative weekly City Pages printed about me in their September 27, 2006 issue, in anticipation of the signing/discussion I gave for The Book of Boy Trouble at Query Books (now sadly defunct) last fall:
Carried by Lavender magazine and syndicated in gay publications around the country, Robert Kirby’s cartoon strip Curbside has the raw emotions and charm of a grownup Peanuts with bigger bodies and pubic hair. When Kirby’s biweekly series first appeared in the local newspaper Equal Time in the early 90’s, it seemed of a piece with both the new movement toward autobiographical comix and the emergence of queer zines. Kirby became kind of a conduit between both sensibilities, photocopying a do-it-yourself gay comics anthology titled Boy Trouble every couple years. Co-edited with Seattle artist David Kelly, and subtitled “Gay Boy Comics with a New Attitude,” The Book of Boy Trouble (Green Candy Press) now collects the best of these comics (including work by Anonymous Boy, Michael Fahy, and more). Kirby, who resides in the Twin Cities, will discuss the book tonight.
See? Innat nice? I’m not so bad! Thanks, Peter.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I really love your stuff. I was going through a curbside I got from you at the SF APE. Even though I’ve read it many times I still laugh. It holds up over time. I really enjoy it.
November 24th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Today is one of those days where I can really use some positive feedback! Thanks a lot, pal!