Debbie Jenkinson

Debbie Jenkinson is an illustrator and comic artist from Dublin, Ireland, who is active in the small-press comic scene.

She is the creator of a long-form comic, Remorse, a story about a young Dubliner who is trapped in a call centre job. It was chosen as runner up on Comicosity's Best of 2015 by Alison Berry.

Jenkinson studied animation in the 1990s at Ballyfermot, when she read and was inspired by Art Spiegelman's Maus. After working in an animation studio in the United States, she returned to Ireland to pursue her MA at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD).

She is co-founder of The Comics Lab, a quarterly meet-up of artists in Ireland. She is a member of the artists' collective Stray Lines. She also helped launch the first Graphic Short Prize which is run through The Irish Times with fellow artist Sarah Bowie.

Jenkinson speaks about the "magical triangulation" that occurs in comics, between the image, the text, and the reader.

Selected works

Heirloom War Chest The Yellow Planet Remorse