Alex Robinson (born August 8, 1969) is an American comic book writer and artist.

Early life

Alex Robinson grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York, and graduated from Yorktown High School in 1987. After a year spent at

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, he went to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he studied under Will Eisner, Sal Amendola, Gahan Wilson, and

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. He graduated with a BFA in cartooning in 1993.

Career

Robinson's first major work was ''

Box Office Poison ''Box Office Poison'' is a series of comic books (originally published by Antarctic Press) by Alex Robinson. It was published in collected form by Top Shelf Productions in 2001. The story concerns the life and trials of a group of young people in ...

'', 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 held for seven years.) 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, Polish 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, with ''A Kidnapped Santa Claus'', adapted from a

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story, following in November 2009. Robinson's newest book, ''Our Expanding Universe'', was released in November 2015. Along with Mike Dawson,

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, and a few other cartoonists, Robinson is part of a loosely associated collective called The Ink Panthers. They also have a podcast called ''The Ink Panthers Show'' available on

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. Robinson also has a podcast with Pete "The Retailer" Bonavita called '' Star Wars Minute'' in which they analyze, scrutinize, and celebrate the ''

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'' movies one minute at a time.

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 at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2005. ''Tricked'' was nominated for an

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, 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.

Bibliography

* ''

'' (Top Shelf Productions, 2001) * ''BOP! More Box Office Poison'' (Top Shelf Productions, 2003) * '' Tricked'' (Top Shelf Productions, 2005) * ''Alex Robinson's Lower Regions'' (Top Shelf Productions, 2007) ISBN I978-1603090094 * ''Too Cool to be Forgotten'' (Top Shelf Productions, 2008) * ''A Kidnapped Santa Claus'' (Harper Collins, It Books, 2009) * ''Our Expanding Universe'' (Top Shelf Productions, 2015)

References

External links

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Alex's catalog at Top Shelf productions

Guest Comic Strip
(Done for Dork Tower 2004) * Lee, Humphrey
"ICN Comics Q&@ with ''Box Office Poisons Alex Robinson!!!"
Ain't It Cool News, September 29, 2006
"Talking with Alex Robinson"
Comic Geek Speak, Podcast Episode 535, October 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Alex Alternative cartoonists American graphic novelists Writers from New York City People from Yorktown Heights, New York School of Visual Arts alumni 1969 births Living people American male novelists Novelists from New York (state)