Biscuits (assorted) Paperback ? January 28, 2021

Every day we pass a thousand people in the street or squash up against strangers in the underground. Like every city, London is teeming with life: diverse, beautiful, messy, incongruous life, and every face seen fleetingly in the crowd carries a story or two. Some are sad, some are funny, some are boring, but none are ever quite what you would guess. In Biscuits (assorted), Jenny Robins takes a look at a handful of women’s stories in the city as they defy and comply with our expectations, and as they step out of the cookie-cutter mould of what it means to be a woman today. What can a relentlessly positive supermarket employee, a strong-minded mother with a secret, a mistress of distraction (and oversharing) and a miss-adventurer in bi-sexual dating do in one long, hot summer? What can they learn from each other and from the colorful cast of women (and the occasional man) in this book of interweaving stories? An extract from Biscuits (assorted) won the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2018.

Jenny Robins is an illustrator, comics artist and teacher. She was born in Brighton and grew up in Henfield, Sussex. She has a BA in Illustration from Southampton Solent University, where she developed an obsession with birds. She trained to be a teacher in 2010 at the Institute of Education, which she followed up with an MA in Art and Design Education in 2014. She now lives in London. She has contributed to various publications and comics collections including Dirty Rotten Comics, Solipsitic Pop, Over the Line, and Meanwhile. Biscuits (assorted) is an ensemble comic about the courage and incongruity of women living in London, side by side but worlds apart.