The second volume of The Book of Boy Trouble further expands the zine’s influence and relevance. Its roster of 24 male and female cartoonists spans generations, exploring the alternative gay boy experience and aesthetic from a host of diverse perspectives. Included are works by queer zinester and scene-maker Anonymous Boy, legendary underground cartoonist Howard Cruse, Bitter Girl’s Joan Hilty, Andy Hartzell, author of the critically acclaimed graphic novel Fox Bunny Funny, and Tim Fish, creator and editor of Young Bottoms in Love.
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Minneapolitan Robert Kirby has been drawing and publishing comics for over 20 years. His self-syndicated comic strip "Curbside" (1991-2008) was collected in two books: Curbside, published with the Xeric Grant in 1998, and Curbside Boys (2002, Cleis Press). His queerboy comics anthology Boy Trouble debuted in 1994 and eventually graduated into book collections from Green Candy Press: The Book of Boy Trouble (2006) and The Book of Boy Trouble Volume 2: Born to Trouble (2008). The first issue of Robert's new all-color queer comics anthology THREE debuted in 2010 and was nominated for two Ignatz awards. In 2011 Robert published a second issue and at the Alternative Press Expo (APE) he was announced as the 2011 recipient of the Prism Queer Press Grant for THREE.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This new Boy trouble anthology of love stories among boys is so much better than the first! It features new as well of old artists (Howard Cruse, Craig Bostick, Steve McIsaac, and my fave Tim Fish among others), and the stories' tone and style vary from the funny, the homely, the romantic, to the weeird, the dramatic and the horrific. An anthology to savour, at par with the famed Young Bottoms in Love!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Such a beautifully assembled volume - and such a spectrum of artists! The strips, many quite short, run the gamut from touching vignettes to fascinating novelistic fragments - like Robert Kirby's "Killer and Me" - some are bizarre, some poignant, some disturbing. (Jon Macy's "Crazy in Bed" was a standout.) Themes vary wildly. Entries can be profound, or angry, many are full of regrets. (Whose love life isn't?) Despite a few tales about lesbian couples, most strips chronicle early relationships between young men, often VERY young men, groping each other as they grope toward some sense of self. (Only a handful of characters seem to be headed in the opposite direction.) These variations create a sense of richness, and even the artistic techniques diverge sharply. For instance, Justin Hall's "Evil Bear Man" - a hilariously sexy slice-of-life entry - utilizes conventional comic book storyboarding, whereas M. Fahy's "Litany" is a poetically intense portrait folio.
Kudos to editors Robert Kirby and David Kelly. This is a generous selection, handsomely presented. When all you want to say about a book, any book, is that you hated to reach the end, you know you've struck gold.
Kudos to editors Robert Kirby and David Kelly. This is a generous selection, handsomely presented. When all you want to say about a book, any book, is that you hated to reach the end, you know you've struck gold.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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The strips are most cheap. The drawings are not professional at all. The stories are absolutely not interesting for me
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