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Robert Kirby was born on 1962 in Detroit, Michigan, is an American cartoonist. Discover Robert Kirby's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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Robert Kirby Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Robert Kirby worth at the age of 61 years old? Robert Kirby’s income source is mostly from being a successful Cartoonist. He is from . We have estimated Robert Kirby's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

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2019

As of November 2019, Kirby is still active in the comics sphere, writing comics as well as reviewing comics.

2014

In 2014, his anthology QU33R was published and won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection.

2013

Kirby was married in October 2013, after same sex marriage was legalized in Minnesota in May of that same year.

Curbside Boys, the sequel to Kirby's first book Curbside, went out of print in 2013, however it is still available to read online.

Robert Kirby is currently working on a graphic memoir called Marry Me a Little, which explores marriage as a middle aged gay man. It also discusses the legalization of gay marriage in Minnesota (where Kirby and his husband live) in May 2013. Marry Me a Little was originally published in PEN America in June 2018. It also appears on his personal website. He hopes to complete the work by the end of 2021.

2011

His anthology THREE was nominated for two Ignatz awards and received a Prism Comics Queer Press Grant in 2011.

2010

In 2010 Robert Kirby began his ongoing LGBT comics anthology, THREE, and in 2014 his 33-person anthology QU33R was published by Northwest Press.

2008

In 2008, The Book of Boy Trouble Volume 2: Born to Trouble was published, featured work by many of the artists from the first volume as well as work by Jennifer Camper, Derek Charm, Howard Cruse, Abby Denson, Tim Fish, Joan Hilty, G.B. Jones, Nick Leonard, Ed Luce, Jon Macy, Steve MacIsaac, Dave Ortega, Bill Roundy, and Robert Triptow.

2006

In 2006, an anthology of the best of Boy Trouble was released, entitled The Book of Boy Trouble, which also included new work and work in color. Besides the editors, Kirby and Kelly, the book featured sequential art by Anonymous Boy, Craig Bostick, C. Bard Cole, Jaime Cortez, Michael Fahy, Justin Hall, Andy Hartzell, Victor Hodge, Brett Hopkins, Nick Leonard, Steve MacIsaac, Josue Menjivar, Sina Shamsavari, D. Travers Scott, and Russ Turk. This work had comics that focused on topics including love, sex, and punk rock, among other things.

In 2006, Kirby's The Book of Boy Trouble was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in the "Arts and Culture" section.

2005

Kirby was also a regular contributor to the ongoing queer comics anthology Juicy Mother, edited by Jennifer Camper, and released in 2005 and 2007.

2004

Following that, Kirby began producing a new comic zine called Boy Trouble with co-editor David Kelly, a comics anthology that was published four issues as a zine, followed by a book in 2004. Boy Trouble features contributions and collaborations from the editors as well as a number of other artists and writers including Anonymous Boy, Craig Bostick, Jennifer Camper, C. Bard Cole, Michael Fahy, Tim Fish, Leanne Franson, Andy Hartzell, G.B. Jones, Steve MacIsaac, Sina Shamsavari, Ivan Velez Jr. and others.

2002

In 2002, State Representative Nancy Sheltra (R-Derby) protested the presence of the publication Out In The Mountains in the Vermont Statehouse due to its inclusion of Kirby's strip featuring two bare-chested male cartoon characters kissing, which she deemed "pornographic".

1997

In 1997, Kirby was awarded a Xeric Grant, given by the Xeric Foundation to comics artists for self-publishing their work. Kirby used this grant in publishing his first book, Curbside.

1994

Boy Trouble is a zine by Robert Kirby and David Kelly that was made in order to highlight some queer comics. Four issues were published since 1994. A fifth issue was published in 2004. The Book of Boy Trouble, an anthology of these zines, was published in 2006, followed by The Book of Boy Trouble 2: Born to Trouble in 2008.

1991

Kirby had his first venture into producing comics with the comic zine Strange Looking Exile, which also featured work by Diane DiMassa, Roberta Gregory, Nick Leonard and Alison Bechdel. The zine ran from 1991 until 1994.

1990

since Strange Looking Exile, a zine published in the early 1990s, and grew popular through his long-running comic Curbside Boys.

1962

Robert Kirby (/ˈ k ɜːr b i / ; born 1962) is an American cartoonist, known for his long-running syndicated comic Curbside – which ran in the gay and alternative presses from 1991 to 2008 – and other works focusing on queer characters and community, including Strange Looking Exile, Boy Trouble, THREE, and QU33R.

Robert Kirby was born in Detroit, Michigan in September 1962. He lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York for a while, during which he worked on Curbside Boys: The New York Years. He attended the University of Minnesota. Kirby has been publishing comics