Robert Kirby

Rob Kirby has been drawing & publishing comics since 1991. His comic strip "Curbside" ran in dozens of LGBTQ & alternative papers in the US and Canada from 1991 to 2008, and there were two book collections: Curbside (1998, published with a Xeric Grant), and Curbside Boys (2002, Cleis Press). He has also created and edited many anthologies over the years, including the queerboy comics zine Boy Trouble, which mutated into two books from Green Candy Press: The Book of Boy Trouble (2006) & The Book of Boy Trouble Volume 2 (2008), both co-edited with David Kelly; 3 issues of the Ignatz-nominated series THREE, for which he also received the 2011 Prism Queer Press Grant; the Ignatz Award-winning QU33R (2014), What's Your Sign, Girl? Cartoonists Talk About Their Sun Signs (2015), & The Shirley Jackson Project: Comics Inspired by her Life and Work (2016). His long-form graphic memoir, Marry Me a Little, was published in Feb 2023 by Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press.

Rob is a regular contributor to The Comics Journal and Publisher's Weekly. He was a guest editor for the Illustrated PEN series at PEN America from 2016 through 2018. He lives and works in St. Paul, MN. 

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