This year also so Astiberri in Spain release both of his graphic novels in handsome, one volume editions.Īlex has expanded his storytelling to include fantasy, with the release of Alex Robinson's LOWER REGIONS (2007) and time travel/high school in TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN (2008). In 2006, Tricked lost the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Novel, but managed to win a Harvey and Ignatz Award.
August finally saw the release of Tricked, which Top Shelf announced was going to a second printing in November. Alex bitterly got to work on a second book.Ģ005 got off to a great start when the French translation of Box Office Poison won the prestigious Prix du Premier Album award in Angouleme, France. Shortly after the book was published, Alex won the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.Īlthough Box Office Poison was nominated for several awards (a Harvey, an Eisner, an Ignatz and the Firecracker book award) it failed to take home a single prize. The series ran for twenty-one issues, and once the story was complete, Top Shelf Productions published the entire thing in one 608 page book. In 1996, Antarctic Press started publishing the serialized version of Box Office Poison. He soon started working on the story that would become his first graphic novel, Box Office Poison. In his sophomore year he got a job at a bookstore, where he continued to work for seven long years.Īfter graduating from art school, Alex began doing mini comics (small print run comics xeroxed and stapled by himself). Among his teachers were Will Eisner, Andre LeBlanc, Sal Amendola and Gahan Wilson. He spent one year at SUNY Brockport and then transferred to an art school in New York City, where he majored in cartooning. His first job upon graduation was washing dishes in a gourmet deli and it was while working there he decided that maybe college was a pretty good idea afterall. He grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York where he graduated high school in 1987.
Alex Robinson was born in the Bronx on 8 August.
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