The Cowboy and The Goliath: A Western That Works

October 22, 2013

Westerns are difficult to write. At their best, westerns are the closet thing America has to Greek tragedy. The action may be fast, the characters glorious, but the subtext is really about man’s existence in nature. Problem is, the ones that are good are brilliant, and the ones that suck, well, they really suck. Creating a western that incorporates fantasy…

Iann Robinson started his career early writing for Sound Views magazine and spreading all the way to Japan Warp. In 1996 he created the wildly popular cable access show Monkey Butt Sex. In the four years it was on Robinson interviewed dozens of bands ranging from Sick Of It All to The Melvins as well as cementing his name in the underground music world. From Monkey Butt Sex, Robinson began MBS Productions, directing small budget videos for Hedpe, H20, Napalm Death, Sick Of It All, Warzone, and others. This led to the next big phase of Robinson’s career, MTV. In 2000 Iann Robinson became an on air news reporter and quickly attracted both bands and fans with his honest and often brutal opinions. After MTV Robinson began writing for Crave Online as well as starting his own small press comic shop Isolation Disorder Comics. Robinson also produced and starred in the on-line pop culture show Dude, That’s Awesome.