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" - 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. 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.
Read more about this topic: Bobbins (webcomic)
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