Bottomless Studio, San Leandro, CA (2023)

01/15/2023

Suzy Spreadwell Chapter 3 p. 4 (full color; free!) | John Linton Roberson on Patreon

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01/14/2023

Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Lake of Fire - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) In this, the sixth work in the series "The Sleepy Sins of Suzy Spreadwell," Suzy fantasizes about the day when Satan is cast into the lake of fire, spoken of in Revelation. To right-wing Christians, there is no sexier book of the Bible....

01/12/2023

Art of the Day: Vladrushka: Tsarina - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Juts another gorgeous erotic print starring Vladrushka. Digital color in Clip Studio over scanned india ink original on watercolor paper.

01/11/2023

Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Agape - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Fifth in my series of paintings involving my comics character Suzy Spreadwell. This one, somewhat darker than the rest, shows (in a scene upcoming in the series, which you can find at Comixology) Suzy with her minister, receiving a less...

01/10/2023

Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Pentatheós - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) This is the first of my series of paintings of the sinful fantasies of my character Suzy Spreadwell that was physically painted (the actual first one in the series was digital), "Pentatheós," which some may know means "Five Gods." You ...

01/09/2023

Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Witnessing - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Another in a series of lightly blasphemous fantasies by the red state sweetheart with the purity ring, SUZY SPREADWELL! From my comic of the same name.

01/08/2023

Art of the Day: Jesus is Always Watching - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) The first of my series of paintings of the rather blasphemousb fantasies of my comics character Suzy Spreadwell, and one of the only digital ones(the others largely being watercolor, ink, and gouache on illustration board), which is why...

01/07/2023

Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Behold the Girl - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. Another Suzy Spreadwell painting, finished on Christmas Eve 2018. Suzy, here inspired by the birth of her savior, dreams about a way to show her love and gratitude for him. Below, Satan fumes confounded, and her family and boyfriend react. 10" x 13" Watercolor, Ink, Gouac...

01/06/2023

Art of the Day: Vladrushka: Family Snapshot (2020) - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) New Vladrushka print, from a pencil sketch done some years ago. Vladrushka with her daughters London & Berlin. (technically, modified clones of her) The background by the way is not a pasted in photo. It's just digital painting by me: p...

01/05/2023

Slings & Arrows

Eight years passed between John Linton Roberson publishing his first instalment of Lulu and this updating of the second act of Frank Wedekind’s play Erdgeist (Earth Spirit). Creatively, there are two major differences between this and Book 1, one being the addition of colour. It’s sparingly appl...

01/05/2023

Slings & Arrows

Frank Wedekind’s play Erdgeist (Earth Spirit) was completed in 1895, yet each new generation brings its own interpretation to what a rescued street child becomes. It’s been adapted as an opera, and most famously by German film director G.W. Pabst whose 1929 adaptation as Pandora’s Box was cons...

01/05/2023

Art of the Day: Vladrushka: The Box (2018) - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) The first physical ink( and wash) drawing of my semi-famous Eros Comix character Vladrushka since 2011. 11"x14", India ink and wash on illustration board.

01/04/2023

Art of the Day: A Wanton Lust for Burning Angels - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) No. 2 in the Sleepy Sins of Suzy Spreadwell series... 14"x11" on Crescent studio board India ink, aquarelle, gouache, chalk, graphite, bronze Sharpie, and colored pencil. The idea behind my satirical character Suzy Spreadwell, from my c...

01/03/2023

Art of the Day: Summer Night @ the World Eaters Club - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) This is the most complicated single piece I have done to date. Measuring 14.87"x 30" and representing 22 weeks of work, it is my first try at deep perspective and a crowd scene. There are about 50 different figures in this piece, and it...

01/02/2023

Art of the Day: Vladrushka: Star Four - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Just another erotic escapade with Vladrushka and the gang. India ink drawing on illo board scanned, and painted digitally in Clip Studio.

01/01/2023

Art of the Day: Vladrushka: Pooling Resources - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) An entirely digital piece (done from physical pencils) with Vladrushka, another "vaporwave" piece done in the timbre of a style one might have seen in an ad on the back cover of PL***OY or ROLLING STONE in the 80s. With a hint of Nagel....

12/31/2022

Art of the Day: Vladrushka: 1985 (2020) - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Merely another pinup from Vladrushka's long history, this recently unearthed from her very popular and friendly Glasnost period. Digital inking and color on a Huion tablet over pencil scan

12/30/2022

Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Fruit Milky Halo - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. My first painting on canvas, a light parody of Christian and Hindu iconography. Apparently the daisy means purity, the apple temptation, and the banana self-control. The last one seems counter-intuitive.

12/29/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Vladrushka + Daughters: Fixations - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) A heartwarming scene with Vladrushka and her girls, from 2011. Digital ink and color over analog pencils.

12/28/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Vladrushka: Invest In Russia! (1996) - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. In 1996, Vladrushka the Soviet p**n star had one more patriotic duty to perform for the newly capitalist Motherland. So many had lost so much under Boris Yeltsin's drunken, kleptocratic regime, and she made it a point to aid him in this. Accordingly, she and her longtime....

12/27/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Vladrushka: Taste (2012) - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Digital drawing, inking and color on a Huion tablet in Clip Studio. A rather raunchy and direct Vladrushka pinup from 2012, one of the first more painterly ones. Vladrushka is usually the character I experiment with new techniques first...

12/26/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Vladrushka in "Forward,FORWARD"1980 - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Movie Poster for a long-suppressed work! One of Myshkin's works of "p**noganda" for which he was the most proud, and also, as so often in cinema, one of his greatest heartbreaks. This three-hour epic starred Vladrushka in her usual Mysh...

12/25/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Vladrushka & Berlin: Mother's Pride - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) A n**e portrait of my comics character Vladrushka with her lovely daughter. Digital print, inked and colored on a Huion tablet in Clip Studio over a scan of a pencil sketch.

12/24/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Adoration - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Another painting depicting the very sinful fantasies of the devoutly Christian and conservative Suzy Spreadwell. The original is 11.4" h x 14.75" w (29.5h x37.5w cm), on Bainbridge illustration board, in aquarelle, gouache, ink, graphit...

12/23/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Almighty - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Here is the seventh in my print series depicting the religious fe**sh daydreams of everyone's favorite pure young American lady, Suzy Spreadwell (star of the comic of the same name, available now at Comixology). This is actually the mom...

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12/15/2022

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12/15/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Lake of Fire - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) In this, the sixth work in the series "The Sleepy Sins of Suzy Spreadwell," Suzy fantasizes about the day when Satan is cast into the lake of fire, spoken of in Revelation. To right-wing Christians, there is no sexier book of the Bible....

12/15/2022

Elon Finally Gives Me My Excuse to Leave Twitter | John Linton Roberson on Patreon

BYE BYE TWITTER

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12/15/2022

Here is a tweet about and how he's full of s**t and not to be feared as he wants to be. This got my Twitter account locked. As soon as it's UNlocked, I'm deleting the account. F**k . I am NOT sorry.

12/13/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Vladrushka: Tsarina - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Juts another gorgeous erotic print starring Vladrushka. Digital color in Clip Studio over scanned india ink original on watercolor paper.

12/12/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Agape - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Fifth in my series of paintings involving my comics character Suzy Spreadwell. This one, somewhat darker than the rest, shows (in a scene upcoming in the series, which you can find at Comixology) Suzy with her minister, receiving a less...

12/12/2022

Alex de Campi on Twitter

“The is working on an article about the nonpayment situation at Aftershock — if you are owed money by them and want to talk on or off the record about how much you’re owed, you can email comicsjournaltips at gmail dot com”

12/11/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Pentatheós - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) This is the first of my series of paintings of the sinful fantasies of my character Suzy Spreadwell that was physically painted (the actual first one in the series was digital), "Pentatheós," which some may know means "Five Gods." You ...

12/10/2022

New art for sale! "Suzy Spreadwell: Witnessing"

Purchase online here. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) Another in a series of lightly blasphemous fantasies by the red state sweetheart with the purity ring, SUZY SPREADWELL! From my comic of the same name.

12/09/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Jesus is Always Watching - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) The first of my series of paintings of the rather blasphemousb fantasies of my comics character Suzy Spreadwell, and one of the only digital ones(the others largely being watercolor, ink, and gouache on illustration board), which is why...

12/08/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Suzy Spreadwell: Behold the Girl - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. Another Suzy Spreadwell painting, finished on Christmas Eve 2018. Suzy, here inspired by the birth of her savior, dreams about a way to show her love and gratitude for him. Below, Satan fumes confounded, and her family and boyfriend react. 10" x 13" Watercolor, Ink, Gouac...

12/07/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Vladrushka: Family Snapshot (2020) - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) New Vladrushka print, from a pencil sketch done some years ago. Vladrushka with her daughters London & Berlin. (technically, modified clones of her) The background by the way is not a pasted in photo. It's just digital painting by me: p...

12/06/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Vladrushka: The Box (2018) - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) The first physical ink( and wash) drawing of my semi-famous Eros Comix character Vladrushka since 2011. 11"x14", India ink and wash on illustration board.

12/05/2022

Featured Art of the Day: A Wanton Lust for Burning Angels - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) No. 2 in the Sleepy Sins of Suzy Spreadwell series... 14"x11" on Crescent studio board India ink, aquarelle, gouache, chalk, graphite, bronze Sharpie, and colored pencil. The idea behind my satirical character Suzy Spreadwell, from my c...

12/04/2022

Featured Art of the Day: Summer Night @ the World Eaters Club - jlroberson

Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) This is the most complicated single piece I have done to date. Measuring 14.87"x 30" and representing 22 weeks of work, it is my first try at deep perspective and a crowd scene. There are about 50 different figures in this piece, and it...