Minnesota’s Lavender magazine has a brief Q&A with Curbside cartoonist Robert Kirby, co-editor of The Book of Boy Trouble anthology:
You’re a contributor to The Book of Boy Trouble, as well as coeditor. As a creator, what’re the differences between working with a page, or pages, and a (usually) six-panel strip, as you do every other week in “Curbside”?
I really enjoy the chance to break out and do longer-form stories, sometimes in collaboration with writers like D. Travers Scott, author of One of These Things Is Not Like the Other, which just won the Lambda Literary award for Best Gay Men’s Mystery.
You simply have more time to tell your story and more space to stretch out your drawings in a six-pager, which is a chief reason I started up Boy Trouble in the first place—to have that opportunity.
On the other hand, I do have to be more concise, and wrap up these longer stories within their page count, whereas in “Curbside,” because it’s a continuing story, my narrative can ramble a bit—for example, go off into a character study for an episode or two, as I see fit.
Related: Prism Comics review of the anthology
