Debbie Jenkinson

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Debbie Jenkinson
Nationality Irish
Area(s) artist, illustrator
Notable works
Remorse
CollaboratorsSarah Bowie
http://www.debbiejenkinson.net/

Debbie Jenkinson is an illustrator and comic artist from Dublin, Ireland, who is active in the small-press comic scene.

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She is the creator of a long-form comic, Remorse a story about a young Dubliner who is trapped in a call center job. [1] [2] [3] It was chosen as runner up on Comicosity's Best of 2015 by Alison Berry. [4]

Jenkinson studied animation in the 1990s at Ballyfermot, when she read and was inspired by Art Spiegelman's Maus . [5] After working in an animation studio in the United States, she returned to Ireland to pursue her MA at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). [6]

She is co-founder of The Comics Lab, a quarterly meet-up of artists in Ireland. [7] She is a member of the artists collective Stray Lines. [8] She also helped launch the first Graphic Short Prize which is run through The Irish Times with fellow artist Sarah Bowie. [5] [9]

Jenkinson speaks about the "magical triangulation" that occurs in comics, between the image, the text, and the reader. [5] "I think our brains take in pictorial information in a different way...a more natural way. There's something really immersive about reading a comic, that's different from reading prose...It's like looking at the world through someone else's eyes." [5]

Jenkinson is a member of Illustrators Ireland, a non-profit professional organization which advocates on behalf of illustrators in the country. [10]

Selected works

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References

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  2. "Comic Book Review: Remorse". Geek Ireland. 25 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
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