| Bobbins | |
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| Author(s) | John Allison |
| Website | http://bobbins.keenspot.com |
| Current status / schedule | Monday to Friday, archived |
| Launch date | September 21, 1998 |
| End date | June 3, 2002 |
| Publisher(s) | Keenspot |
| Genre(s) | Comedy |
| Followed by | Scary Go Round |
Bobbins is a webcomic set in the fictional West Yorkshire town of Tackleford, England, and written by John Allison.
It ran from September 21, 1998, to June 3, 2002, but shifted into reruns with commentary on May 17, 2002. In 2002 Bobbins was nominated for the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards categories Best Use of Color, Best Site Design and Best Female Character (Shelley Winters).[1] In June 2002 Bobbins was Runner-up best online comic strip in the UK National Comic Awards.[2][3] Webcomics portal Keenspot keeps the Bobbins archive freely accessible online.
Upon its conclusion John Allison began another webcomic, entitled Scary Go Round (SGR). Most of the main characters followed him, and SGR, although originally intended to be a spin-off focussing on the minor characters of Tessa Davies and Rachel Dukakis-Monteforte, eventually ended up with roughly the same cast[4] as the end of Bobbins.
Bobbins focused on the staff of City Limit magazine, their friends, relationships and lives.
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John Allison had started drawing the characters in 1994 and experimented with them in various paper-comics until mid 1998 when he submitted a sample pack of 25 strips titled Bobbins — northwestern English slang for "crap"[5] - to King Features Syndicate and Universal Features. They later rejected the submissions. By September 1998 John was hand-drawing five strips per week and scanning them for presenting on the web, up until mid 2000 when he changed to computer drawing with Adobe Illustrator.[6][7] Stephen Gerding described Bobbins as "kind of like “Friends”", or "“Coupling”" with an office atmosphere, and John noted his later episodes got very bizarre and this, beginning in 2002, led to the supernatural tone of Scary Go Round.[6]
In 1999 Bobbins and Goats produced two crossovers starting April Fool's Day.
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