Alex Robinson
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| Born | August 8, 1969 Yorktown Heights, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer |
| Notable works | Box Office Poison Tricked Too Cool to be Forgotten |
| Awards | Eisner Award, 2001 Prix Du Premier Album, 2005 Harvey Award, 2006 Ignatz Award, 2006 Harvey Award, 2009 |
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Alex Robinson (born August 8, 1969) is an award-winning American comic book writer and artist.
He grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York, and graduated from Yorktown High School in 1987. After a year spent at SUNY Brockport, he went to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and graduated with a BFA in cartooning in 2000. Among his teachers in college were Will Eisner, Sal Amendola, Gahan Wilson, and Carmine Infantino. He is outspoken about what a waste of time and money art school was.[citation needed]
Robinson's first major work was Box Office Poison, originally serialized by Antarctic Press and then collected into graphic novel form in 2001 by Top Shelf Productions. Box Office Poison concerns the life and trials of a group of young people in New York City. (The central protagonist works in a bookstore, a job Robinson himself did for seven years.)[citation needed]
Robinson's second graphic novel, Tricked, also published by Top Shelf, was released in August 2005, and both Box Office Poison and Tricked have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German.
In October 2007 Alex Robinson's Lower Regions was released, a 56-page comic about "a sexy barbarian fighting monsters." Two sequels are planned for the coming years.
His next graphic novel, Too Cool to Be Forgotten, a time travel/high school story, was published by Top Shelf in July 2008.
His most recent book is called A Kidnapped Santa Claus. It is adapted from a Frank L. Baum story and was released by Harper-Collins Publishing in November 2009. Destined to be a classic!
Along with Mike Dawson, Tony Consiglio, and a few other cartoonists, Robinson is part of a loosely associated comics collective called The Ink Panthers. They also have a podcast called "The Ink Panthers Show" available on iTunes.
Robinson lives in New York City with his wife and their adopted pets, a cat and a pug.
[edit] Awards
Box Office Poison was nominated for 2001 Harvey, Eisners, Firecracker, and Ignatz Awards. Although the book itself didn't win, Robinson won the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition. In addition, the French translation of the book (titled De Mal en Pis) won the Prix Du Premier Album award in Angouleme, France.
Tricked was nominated for an Eisner Award, and won both the 2006 Harvey Award for Best Original Graphic Novel and the 2006 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. Robinson was also nominated in the Best Writer category for the Harvey Award.
Too Cool to be Forgotten won the 2009 Harvey Award for Best Original Graphic Album.
[edit] Bibliography
- Box Office Poison (Top Shelf Productions, 2001) ISBN 978-1891830198
- BOP! More Box Office Poison (Top Shelf Productions, 2003) ISBN 978-1891830464
- Tricked (Top Shelf Productions, 2005) ISBN 978-1891830730
- Alex Robinson's Lower Regions (Top Shelf Productions, 2007) ISBN I978-1603090094
- Too Cool to be Forgotten (Top Shelf Productions, 2008) ISBN 978-1891830983
- A Kidnapped Santa Claus (Harper Collins, It Books, 2009) ISBN 9780061782404
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Guest Comic Strip (Done for Dork Tower 2004)
- Lee, Humphrey. "ICN Comics Q&@ with Box Office Poison's Alex Robinson!!!," Ain't It Cool News (Sept. 29, 2006).
