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Seattle, Washington
Bio
John Linton Roberson (born in Kingstree, South Carolina, January 22, 1969), also known as JLRoberson, is an underground cartoonist and writer currently based in Seattle, Washington.
An alumnus of DePaul University, Roberson self-published the quarterly anthology "Plastic" from 1998-2001 under his Bottomless Studio imprint, contributing Vitriol, a 12-chapter black comedy. The magazine also featured work by Sam Henderson, amongst other contributors. From 1999-2001 he created several strips for the San Francisco web magazine Spark-Online, usually under the title Slash & Burn.
In early 2003, he was editor, publisher, and one of 26 contributors to the comics anthology Working for the Man, a benefit book published in e-book format for William Messner-Loebs. The collection contains an introduction by Gary Groth as well as work by Sam Kieth, Steve Bissette, Ted Rall, Donna Barr, and P. Craig Russell.
In Summer 2004, he directed the premiere of his comedy Suspension of Disbelief in Chicago for Theatre O' the Absurd.
Roberson created the characters Vladrushka and Rosa & Annalisa for the adult comics publisher Eros Comix, later serializing their adventures in "This Sickness" at Adultwebcomics.com, and in a print comic of the same name. He has also collaborated with a number of writers, including Charles Alverson. In November 2008, he became the regular illustrator for humorist David Volk's column "Last Stop" in Journey Magazine.
More about him and his questionable and shocking work may be found at jlroberson.org, if you're some kind of sicko or something.
