Jimmie Robinson (born 1963 in California)"About the Artists & Writers," ''African-American Classics, Graphic Classics'' vol. 22 (Eureka Productions, 2011). is an American

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creator, known for writing and drawing the comic book series ''

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'', and for other works, including ''Amanda and Gunn'', ''Avigon'', ''Code Blue'', ''Evil & Malice'', ''Five Weapons'', ''The Empty'', ''Power Lines'', and ''Junk Rabbit'', most of which have been published by

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Biography

Early life and education

Robinson grew up in

Oakland, California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...

, and attended Mosswood Arts, Renaissance Middle School, and Concordia High School.

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

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named Amanda Shane, and her artificially-intelligent gun. In 1996,

published a four-issue spin-off titled ''Amanda & Gunn''. A 1997 follow-up called ''Code Blue'' – a medical drama in the style of '' ER'' in comics format – was canceled after a single issue. 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 ''

'', 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. He scripted the one-shot ''What if?

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: Enemy of the State'' for

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in 2008. He collaborated with writer Derek McCulloch, illustrating ''T. Runt!'', a children's book about an undersized

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, 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

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at the San Diego Comic Convention International in 2015. He was chosen as one of six judges for the 2019 Eisner Awards.

References

External links

2008 Herospy interview

2011 Comics Bulletin interview
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