Bobby London

Robert London (born June 29, 1950) is an American underground comix and mainstream comics artist. His style evokes the work of early American cartoonists such as George Herriman, Cliff Sterrett and Elzie Crisler Segar.

Biography As a child, London was "pen pals" with comedian Stan Laurel, who provided critiques on London's youthful cartoons. His first professional cartooning was for the left-wing National Guardian in the late 1960s. He created his underground newspaper comic strip Merton, in New York in 1969. He also drew cartoons for Rat Subterranean News before moving to the West Coast. where Flenniken was producing a daily Sky River newsletter on a mimeograph machine. Before the festival was over the four of them produced a four-page tabloid comic, Sky River Funnies, mostly drawn by London.

In early 1971, O'Neill invited Flenniken and Richards, along with London and Gary Hallgren, a Seattle cartoonist they had met at the festival, to San Francisco to form the Air Pirates collective. The Air Pirates lived together in a warehouse on Harrison Street in San Francisco,

In the summer of 2000, London unveiled a family-oriented comic feature for Nickelodeon Magazine entitled Cody. He wrote and storyboarded episodes of Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls for Cartoon Network in 2003 and 2004, and contributed character designs for King Neptune and Mindy of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. In 2018, London contributed to the design of Mike Quinn's character Agnes Packard for the Mighty Magiswords second season episode, "Pachydermus Packard and the Camp of Fantasy".

London returned to comic books for the first time in 30 years with contributions to the Grammy-nominated box set from Rhino Records, Weird Tales of The Ramones, in 2005.