John Linton Roberson

John Linton Roberson (born in Kingstree, South Carolina, 1969), also known as JLRoberson, is an American writer, illustrator, cartoonist and critic.
Biography
His father was Lt. John Linton Roberson III, who served under Col. David Hackworth in the Vietnam War.
An alumnus of DePaul University's Goodman School of Drama, Roberson studied Soviet film theory & history under Richard DeCordova, and philosophy of tragedy and comedy under Dr. Stephen Houlgate. He later self-published the quarterly anthology Plastic from 1998-2001 under his Bottomless Studio imprint, contributing Vitriol, a 12-chapter black comedy. The magazine also featured work by Sam Henderson, Kamagurka & Herr Seele (Cowboy Henk), and other contributors. From 1999-2001 he created several strips for the San Francisco web magazine Spark-Online, usually under the title Slash & Burn. He also wrote numerous film articles for Hollywood Bitchslap from 1999-2003.
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.
Since 2002, he has written a political/arts blog, I Didn't Write That!
In Summer 2004, he directed the premiere of his comedy Suspension of Disbelief(written 1989) in Chicago for Theatre O' the Absurd. He had previously appeared as Saturninus in their 2003 performance of Titus Andronicus, also supplying the poster design. More recently, in 2009 he performed in "Koba's Bad Cut" and "Strictly Kosher" with Seattle's McCroskey Memorial Internet Playhouse.
Roberson created the characters Vladrushka (inspired in part by actresses Georgina Spelvin and Joan Severance) and Rosa & Annalisa for the adult comics publisher Eros Comix, later serializing their adventures in This Sickness in its version before print as a popular feature at Adultwebcomics.com, and in a print comic of the same name.
He has also collaborated with a number of writers, most often Charles Alverson. as well as Janet Harvey, John E. Williams, and Shane Durgee.
From November 2008 to April 2009, he was the regular illustrator for humorist David Volk's column "Last Stop" in AAA's Journey Magazine. Pages from his stories "Martha" and "Story of OH!" were exhibited at the Robert Daniel Gallery in Tacoma, WA June 12-13, 2009.
Most recently, he completed in 2012 the first book of a comics adaptation of Frank Wedekind's tragedy Lulu, Roberson's depiction of the character's appearance inspired by the Italian actress Stefania Casini. Roberson serialized the work online 2010-2012, the first two chapters now published in print in THIS SICKNESS #6 and 7. He also began in 2012 a new online Vladrushka story arc, Let Running Dogs Lie, co-starring the famous public-domain underground characters Octobriana and Projunior, among others.

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