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''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. It has since made occasional returns in John Allison's website in between his other comics, starting in 2013. 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).〔Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards〕 In June 2002 ''Bobbins'' was Runner-up best online comic strip in the UK National Comic Awards.〔Joel Hahn〕〔Kev F Sutherland〕 Webcomics portal Keenspot kept the ''Bobbins'' archive freely accessible online, but eventually they moved to Allison's own site. 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〔Bobbins — CAST 2002, Keenspot〕 as the end of ''Bobbins'' (though a number of new characters were introduced later). ''Bobbins'' focused on the staff of ''City Limit'' magazine, their friends, relationships and lives. ==History== 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"〔(Bobbins - Kicking it crumbly style )〕 - 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.〔Gerding〕〔Fitzgerald〕 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.〔 In 1999 ''Bobbins'' and ''Goats'' produced two crossovers starting April Fool's Day. In 2013, new installments of ''Bobbins'' began to appear on Fridays, interleaved with the ''Bad Machinery'' strip (which publishes Monday through Thursday). The new episodes were apparently taking place around 1998, "retconned" into the early ''Bobbins'' run, and prominently featured Amy, whose older version was important to the ''Bad Machinery'' storyline in progress which involved time travel and alternate realities. More new ''Bobbins'' comics have been published since, including a run beginning in December in between storylines of ''Bad Machinery''. Some are "Bobbins NOW" strips, featuring the present-day versions of Bobbins characters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bobbins (webcomic)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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