John Linton Roberson

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J.L. Roberson Self Portrait, 2005

John Linton Roberson (born in Kingstree, South Carolina, January 22, 1969), also known as JLRoberson, is a cartoonist and writer currently based in Chicago, Illinois.

An alumnus of DePaul University, Roberson self-published the anthology Plastic under his Bottomless Studio imprint from 1998-2001, in which he serialised his graphic novel Vitriol , a 12-chapter black comedy. The magazine also featured work by Kamagurka & Herr Seele, and Sam Henderson, among other contributors. In 2000 he created several strips for the San Francisco web magazine Spark-Online under the title Slash & Burn.

In early 2003, he was editor, publisher, and one of 26 contributors to the comics anthology Working for the Man, a benefit book published in e-book format for William Messner-Loebs. The collection contains an introduction by Gary Groth as well as work by Sam Kieth, Steve Bissette, Ted Rall, Donna Barr, and P. Craig Russell.

Roberson created the characters Vladrushka and Rosa & Annalisa for Fantagraphics/Eros Comix. His erotica is also serialized in This Sickness at Adultwebcomics.com.

In Summer 2004, he directed the premiere of his comedy Suspension of Disbelief in Chicago for Theatre O' the Absurd. According to a review of this production in the Chicago Reader, Roberson's work is "fairly obsessed with sex and death."

He is also a frequent (largely political) blogger and occasional film critic.