Marry Me a Little: A Graphic Memoir

Robert Kirby, Robert Kirby

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Marry Me a Little: A Graphic Memoir

Marry Me a Little: A Graphic Memoir

Robert Kirby, Robert Kirby

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OPRAH MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 NAMED ONE OF 6 VITAL NEW WORKS OF LGBTQ+ NONFICTION BY KIRKUS A BOOKLIST TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS OF 2023 SELECTION Marriage doesn't define a relationship. Unless you want it to. In Marry Me a Little, Rob Kirby recounts his experience of marrying his longtime partner, John, just after same-sex marriage was legalized in Minnesota in 2013, and two years before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage the law of the land. This is a personal story--about Rob's ambivalence (if not antipathy) toward the institution of marriage, his loving relationship with John, and the life that they share together--set against the historical and political backdrop of shifting attitudes toward LGBTQ+ rights and marriage. With humor, candor, and a near-whimsical drawing style, Rob relates how he and John navigated this changing landscape, how they planned and celebrated their wedding, and how the LGBTQ+ community is now facing the very real possibility of setbacks to marriage equality. Heartwarming, honest, and slyly humorous, Marry Me a Little is a wonderfully illustrated celebration of a romantic partnership between two men and a personal account of a momentous and historic moment in the fight for gay rights.

Cartoonist Rob Kirby has been making comics since 1991. He is the author of Curbside Boys and the creator and editor of several anthologies, including the series THREE, for which he received the 2011 Prism Queer Press Grant, and the Ignatz Award-winning QU33R (2014).

"Kirby's work belongs right there with Bechdel and Kobabe but it's so different because right from the start, Kirby knows who he is. There's no journey here of self-realization, just a journey of getting what other people already have with no problems."--Scott Cederlund, From Cover to Cover

"Fans of Alison Bechdel will find plenty to love in Kirby's intimate and often laugh-out-loud-funny narrative." --Tom Beer, Kirkus

"Funny and intensely thought-provoking, this book will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about happily ever after."- Orprah Daily

"[A]whimsical, 112-page account, which brims with sweet (but not sappy) recollections about love, set in a period of extraordinary change."--Laura Yuen, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Publisher: Graphic Mundi - Psu Press
Pub date: 2023-02-21
Length: 112 pages

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