User Profile

Me? I'm an underground cartoonist and writer in the business for over a decade.

I was raised in South Carolina, lived the second half of the nineties and change in the wonderful city of Berkeley, California, and now reside in beautiful Seattle, with a five-plus-year waste of time in Chicago in between. Which we will not speak of.

I write, I draw, I edit, I design, I've even been known to act and sing. From 1998 to 2001, much of my work, as well as work by Sam Henderson, Ryan Alexander-Tanner, Kamagurka & Seele, and others, was published by myself in my periodical Plastic. I also did a monthly (well, that was the theory, anyway) topical strip called Slash & Burn from 1999 to 2001 for the San Francisco web magazine Spark-Online.

I've so far created a play, Suspension of Disbelief; a graphic novel, Vitriol, a number of short strips written by myself and others such as Shane Durgee, Janet Harvey, John E. Williams and Charles Alverson. I edited the benefit anthology Working For The Man, for which an amazing bunch of much more talented people than me donated their time and talent to help Bill & Nadine Loebs. I've also done logos, posters and other promo design for music and theatre.

Between 2003-2006 I drew for Eros/Fantagraphics. You can see the adult work nowadays at my website, or in my quarterly comic "This Sickness," which was also a popular feature at adultwebcomics.com till the site's inexplicable demise, drawing as many as 500,000 pageviews alone.

I am also the illustrator for David Volk's "Last Stop" column in JOURNEY Magazine, and the storyboard artist for a film project I can't say more about right now.

You can see most of the crap I do, and links to same, at my ever-being-constructed website, Bottomless Studio, or jlroberson.org to your computer.

And I rant a lot, mostly about politics, at my deniably titled blog, I Didn't Write That! Every now and then I say things about film at Cigarette Burns, at which most of my film reviews are archived.

And if you want me to draw something for you, rustling cash is a powerful motivator...

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