{"id":618,"date":"2011-12-20T11:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=618"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:44:51","slug":"three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/three\/","title":{"rendered":"Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirby, Rob, ed. Three, #1.<\/em> Minneapolis: Robert Kirby, 2010. Paperback. 32pp. $6.25. ISBN: 9780615377346.<\/p>\n

Kirby, Rob, ed. Three, #2.<\/em> Minneapolis: Robert Kirby, 2011. Paperback. 32pp. $6.25. ISBN: 9780615480619.<\/p>\n

\"\"Three<\/em> is a full-color graphic anthology serial edited and published by Robert Kirby, artist\/author of the comic strip \u201cCurbside\u201d and the editor of cartoon zine Boy Trouble.<\/em> Once again, as with Boy Trouble,<\/em> Kirby did both the editing and publishing himself, allowing him and his fellow GLBT cartoonists the opportunity to more directly reach their fans.<\/p>\n

Issue 1, \u201cDebut Issue!,\u201d has stories by Eric Orner, Joey Alison Sayers, and Robert Kirby. Orner\u2019s piece, \u201cWeekends Abroad,\u201d tells us of one Tel Aviv weekend in particular. The narrator, a gay American Jew in Israel on a short-term contract that keeps getting extended, escapes Jerusalem to the more lively, cosmopolitan Tel Aviv. As he wanders lost through the city, he sees its beauty and humanity and realizes Israel has become his home. The panels of this story are tinted yellow, and I was impressed with how well that worked, both to highlight the bodies in the bar and the sun on the beach.<\/p>\n

\u201cNumber One,\u201d by Joey Alison Sayers, shows three women working for a yard service agency. One of them has to use the bathroom of the lady whose property they are working on, and the owner is not pleased. Sayers uses vibrant, full color for this exploration of class and culture, where the lady of the house turns out to have less social grace than the laborers.<\/p>\n

Robert Kirby didn\u2019t just edit this issue \u2013 he contributed the bittersweet \u201cFreedom Flight.\u201d The narrator, Drew, has a long history of fading into the background. One day, brushed off by his boyfriend, he decides to just walk, exploring his life without a partner. Eventually, he wanders back home to his indifferent boyfriend, who never even noticed he\u2019d left.<\/p>\n

\"\"Issue #2 contains three stories, each a collaboration between two people. \u201cDragon,\u201d the first, is written by Sina Evil and drawn by Jon Macy. The story is of a young comic artist who, upon meeting his idol, immediately develops a crush on him. He wants to be with this man but knows he only has two days before he must return to London. That might be for the best \u2013 he\u2019ll do anything to feel closer. The artwork is gorgeous, erotic without being explicit, and combines with the storyline to create a subtle air of yearning.<\/p>\n

Jenifer Camper and Michael Fahy worked together on \u201cHelp Wanted.\u201d They alternated strip by strip on this fun and funny tale of Leo, a gay man who falls in love with Raoul, a Brazilian FTM. It opened up a whole new world of experiences for Leo, including parenthood.<\/p>\n

The third story, \u201cNothin\u2019 but Trouble,\u201d has Craig Bostick and David Kelley each telling one side of a hustler pick-up. A country singer falls for his one-night-stand, but the hustler is strictly business. After they meet again \u2013 and the hustler saves the singer from a gay-bashing \u2013 they part, each realizing they can\u2019t be together, but a little wistful nonetheless.<\/p>\n

I ordered both of these at the same time, directly from robkirbycomics.com<\/a>. I can\u2019t promise you\u2019ll get the same bonus I did, but editor Rob Kirby included a quick sketch and thank you note on a post-it note. Issue #3 is due out in 2012. I recommend this anthology zine for public and high school libraries serving GLBT populations, and for academic libraries with zine, comic book, or GLBT collections.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by, John Bradford<\/strong>
\nHead, Automation & Technical Services
\nVilla Park (IL) Public Library<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kirby, Rob, ed. Three, #1. Minneapolis: Robert Kirby, 2010. Paperback. 32pp. $6.25. ISBN: 9780615377346. Kirby, Rob, ed. Three, #2. Minneapolis: Robert Kirby, 2011. Paperback. 32pp. $6.25. ISBN: 9780615480619. Three is a full-color graphic anthology serial edited and published by Robert Kirby, artist\/author of the comic strip \u201cCurbside\u201d and the editor of cartoon zine Boy Trouble. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,20,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}