All posts by jennyrobins

Jenny Robins draws birds, words, comics, people, whatever you want really. She's really good at it.

New and Pertinent Things

It’s 2026, we are dancing in the jaws of History with a capital H, n’est pas?

Does your feed feel dystopian, or has your bubble blocked the b*stards?

I hope you are safe and engaging responsibly with art and culture.

Mostly I have been doing comics and collage in the last decade or so.

Also I teach and draw portraits. I still identify broadly as an Illustrator and do that sometimes too.

If you would like to talk about me making or facilitating something for you, do not hesitate to get in touch.

For actual most up to date things, you’re probably best looking at my instagram.

Projects I am currently mostly working on include Skull Girl Comics which will be books and stickers at some point soon and a project exploring Feminist Art History which is already a zine and a comic and will be another zine. You can see more of this here.

I continue to be a big fan of birds and skeletons, and recently butterflies.

I have been doing a lot of collage workshops, because collage is life.

I was one of an elite delegation to the Comic Art Museum in Brussels with Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s project British Comics Now which included lots of very good adventures.

My most substantial opus remains Biscuits (Assorted) published by Myriad Editions in 2020.

Biscuits is still available from your favourite book or comic retailer, 10 pence (at time of writing) cheaper than Amazon here, or you can pick up a signed or customised copy from me here

Also, I can draw your face, live! More info here.

Biscuits

Biscuits (Assorted) won the Myriad First Graphic Novel Prize in 2018.

In 2022, pages from Biscuits were shortlisted for the V&A Book Illustration award.

For more recent and varied comics I have made, see this page.

Biscuits (Assorted) is my first graphic novel, published in November 2020 by Myriad Editions. You can buy the book direct from me here or from your favourite reputable book or comic retailer. It’s very good I think you would like it. 

Cover promo
Here’s the book in real life, plus some original pages – most of the original pages are available for sale, please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you would like to buy one.

It is the culmination of a lot of overlapping ideas over several years, begun with my illustration project #3point52billion. It is also a sort of love letter to London, and to its women, and their courage.

It features the overlapping stories of a number of characters including Hana – a perpetually optimistic supermarket employee, Sarah – who is spending the summer doing a data project on playgrounds with her young daughter, and keeping a secret, Clara – who has been thrust backwards into a bisexual love triangle, Maya – oversharing on public transport, Susan, Keerthika, Marissa, Jess, Almas, Samarah, Lucy, and more besides.

This video shows me, Rachael House and Rob Bidder talking about our comics process as part of Natasha Natarajan’s project and exhibition with the Cartoon Museum.
Video by Eliot Gelberg-Wilson.

Birds