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 Chicago, for my sins.
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,
and I'm still amazed at that roster, and how quickly they all had superlative
work to give. Attribute it to how great Bill is. This has the admittedly
dubious distinction of being the first long-form anthology of comics done
specifically for e-book format, and was Unbound Comics' best seller. I've
also done logos for bands and posters and other promo design for the great
Django Baker's Chicago theatre company, Theatre O' The Absurd.
Between 2003-2006 I drew for Eros/Fantagraphics. Currently you can see this work, and much more, online
each and every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in my regular feature
This
Sickness at, well, here. Duh.
New & upcoming work also includes a daily comic strip I'm developing and a graphic novel project with writer Jamie Delano. You can see most of the crap I do at my ever-being-constructed
website, Bottomless Studio...
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, anything you like if you throw money at me.
JL Roberson ||
