Bobby was announced as the Comic Laureate 2023-25 during the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in 2023. He is an acclaimed comic writer, artist, tutor and editor whose work has often challenged and inspired its readers. His early work includes the creation of Skank magazine, where his best-known strip, “Scotland Yardie”, first featured, later collected by Knockabout Press in 2017. It was the first BAME graphic novel to be studied as a module on an English Literature MA course at King’s College, London.

His latest graphic novel, My Dad Fights Demons!, drawn by Abbigayle Bircham, is published by SelfMadeHero in September 2025.

Bobby has written for The Guardian newspaper, Dazed and Confused and Vice.com. His comic work was a prominent feature at the Anarchy in the UK comic exhibition at the British Library in 2015 and was seen by over 60,000 visitors. He is also a vocal advocate for diversity and BAME representation in comic books and is credited on the BBC website as instrumental in featuring some of the “first comics by black creators featuring black characters.”

Bobby’s Laureate Library List – detailed in full here on the Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s Comics Can Change The World web site – includes works by authors such as Sabba Khan, Adam and Lisa Murphy, Bex Ollerton, Shanti Rai, David Shenton and Jamie Smart, and manga creators such as Eiichiro Oda and Hajime Isayama.

• Find out more about the work of the UK Comics Laureate here on Comics Can Change The World

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