Debbie Jenkinson is an illustrator and comic artist from

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, Ireland, who is active in the small-press comic scene. She is the creator of a long-form comic, ''Remorse'' a story about a young Dubliner who is trapped in a call center job. It was chosen as runner up on Comicosity's Best of 2015 by Alison Berry. Jenkinson studied animation in the 1990s at

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, when she read and was inspired by

Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman (; born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel '' Maus''. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines '' Arcade'' and '' R ...

's ''

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''. After working in an animation studio in the United States, she returned to Ireland to pursue her MA at the

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(NCAD). She is co-founder of The Comics Lab, a quarterly meet-up of artists in Ireland. She is a member of the artists collective Stray Lines. She also helped launch the first Graphic Short Prize which is run through

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with fellow artist

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. Jenkinson speaks about the "magical triangulation" that occurs in comics, between the image, the text, and the reader. "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." Jenkinson is a member of Illustrators Ireland, a non-profit professional organization which advocates on behalf of illustrators in the country.

Selected works

* Heirloom * War Chest * The Yellow Planet * Remorse

References

External links

Interview with Debbie Jenkison about death and comics and the "hospice comic" genre, 8 December 2018
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkinson, Debbie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Irish women artists Alumni of the National College of Art and Design Artists from Dublin (city) Irish comics artists Irish women illustrators Irish female comics artists