They’re just like your flatmates, but funny!
Four four titillating years John Allison regaled readers with tales of the silly, mundane, melodramatic and weird, tying them all together with an overall sense of whimsy, engaging characters, and good illustrations. His stories of a ragtag bunch of twentysomethings working for a magazine in the small British hamlet of Tackleford and thereabouts were filled with secret agents (well, one), exciting journalism and an eggnog shoppe, and never failed to bring a grin.
And then, midway through 2002, John pulled the plug. Knowing how to quit at the top of his game, he did just that, leaving the entirety of Bobbins archived on the site. He then moved onto other artsy pursuits, which may have had a little to do with plot twists and new characters introduced into Bobbins before its finale…
