East of West #3: Dystopian Future Done Right

June 10, 2013

When science fiction uses the term Dystopian Future, I tend to cringe, mainly because it’s often used as a catch-all. Comics, films, TV and novels, they all tend to think of Dystopian Future as a blanket statement, one where we fill in the blanks about what it means. Not Jonathan Hickman. When he decides to use Dystopian Future, as he…

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.