Jimmie Robinson

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Jimmie Robinson
Jimmie-Robinson-in-2017.jpg
Robinson in 2017
Born1963 (age 60–61)
California
NationalityAmerican
Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Artist, Inker, Publisher, Colourist
Notable works
 Bomb Queen
Awards Inkpot Award (2015) [1]
official website

Jimmie Robinson (born 1963 in California) [2] is an American comic book creator, known for writing and drawing the comic book series Bomb Queen , and for other works, including Amanda and Gunn, Avigon, Code Blue, Evil & Malice, Five Weapons, The Empty, and Power Lines, most of which have been published by Image Comics.

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Biography

Early life and education

Robinson grew up in Oakland, California, and attended Mosswood Arts, Renaissance Middle School, and Concordia High School. [2]

Career

After working as a commercial artist and starting a family, Robinson entered the comics industry in 1994, publishing eight issues of Cyberzone under his own Jet Black Graphiks imprint. A science fiction story, it featured a lesbian black bounty hunter named Amanda Shane, and her artificially-intelligent gun. In 1996, Image Comics published a four-issue spin-off titled Amanda & Gunn. [2]

A 1997 follow-up called Code Blue – a medical drama in the style of ER in comics format – was canceled after a single issue. [3] His next series was the color, all-ages Adventures of Evil & Malice about the secretly heroic daughters of a super-villain. Robinson then turned to illustrating writer Ché Gilson's Avigon, first published in 2000 as a 56-page story, then an expanded 184-page version in 2005 as Avigon: Gods And Demons.

In 2006 he began the action/humor series Bomb Queen , starring a "bad girl" super-villain who rules over a lawless city that is a haven for every kind of criminal and evil-doer. The first mini-series was successful, leading to seven additional mini-series as of 2020: WMD: Woman of Mass Destruction , Dirty Bomb: The Queen of Hearts , Bombshell: The Good The Bad & The Lovely , Suicide Bomber , Bombastic: The Divine Comedy , Time Bomb: Countdown to Armageddon , End of Hope: The Day the Heroes Died , and Ultimate Bomb: Trump Card . [4]

He scripted the one-shot What if? Wolverine: Enemy of the State for Marvel Comics in 2008. He collaborated with writer Derek McCulloch, illustrating T. Runt!, a children's book about an undersized Tyrannosaurus rex, published in 2009.

In 2013-2014, Robinson produced Five Weapons, a drama about a 13-year-old boy at a special school where the children of assassins learn the family trade. Originally intended as a five-issue mini-series, a five-issue sequel followed. In 2015 he began publishing The Empty, a science-fiction story in which two unlike women set out together to save a dying world.

He received an Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic Convention International in 2015. He was chosen as one of six judges for the 2019 Eisner Awards. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Inkpot Award
  2. 1 2 3 "About the Artists & Writers," African-American Classics, Graphic Classics vol. 22 (Eureka Productions, 2011).
  3. ↑ "Code blue / [Jimmie Robinson]". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 2023-07-06.
  4. ↑ McMillan, Graeme (2020-06-11). "'Bomb Queen: Trump Card' Sets Comic Villain Against the President". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2023-07-06.
  5. ↑ "Eisner Awards Current Info". Comic-Con International: San Diego. 2014-12-17. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
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