The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... the Bobbinsverse

Welcome to the Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide, where we take you through the Wellington City Libraries’ collection of a comic book character or series. This guide is all about the sprawling webcomic-turned-print comic universe, the Bobbinsverse!

The Bobbinsverse encompasses several comics that all take place in the same universe, centered around a fictional Yorkshire town called Tackleford. Written and drawn by John Allison, these comics are either slice-of-life stories or supernatural mysteries, all told with a trademark light-hearted tone.

Updated August 12, 2024
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Giant days : early registration
Allison, John
Paper Book
Take a trip through the past in these early Giant Days stories, and discover the origin of Daisy, Esther and Susan's friendship as they embark on orientation, getting-to-know-you-exercises, and collisions with a secret society devoted to Black Metal. Collecting the original, self-published Giant...
Giant days. Volume one
Allison, John
Paper Book
Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, 'personal experimentation, influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted...
Giant days
Pratt, Non
Paper Book
Based on the hit graphic-novel series from BOOM! Studios, the publisher behind Lumberjanes, Giant Days follows the hilarious and heartfelt misadventures of three university first-years: Daisy, the innocent home-schooled girl; Susan, the sardonic wit; and Esther, the vivacious drama...
Bad machinery. 1, The case of the team spirit
Allison, John
Paper Book
Shauna. Charlotte. Mildred. Three schoolgirlsleuths. Jack. Linton. Sonny. Three schoolboy investigators. Tackleford. Onemid-sized city with a history of countless mysteries. Is there enough room atGriswalds Grammar School for two groups of kid detectives? There better...
Bad machinery. 2, The case of the good boy
Allison, John
Paper Book
Everyone's favorite pre-teen British detectives are back for another case! With toddlers disappearing and rumors of a large, beast-like creature roaming the woods, Tackleford is in serious danger. And then there's Mildred's new dog Archibald... if you can even call it a dog. After all, what kind of...
Bad Machinery. 3, The case of the simple soul
Allison, John
Paper Book
The Tackleford gang is back with a new case that demands solving! When Tackleford's derelict barns begin going up in flames, Linton and Sonny are on the case with a moderately mysterious new friend. Paths cross, however, when Lottie and Mildred meet a terrifying yet misunderstood creature living...
The case of the fire inside
Allison, John
Paper Book
The new year brings the all the joys and near-drownings of young love inThe Case of the Fire Inside, the latest volume of Bad Machinery! Sonnymeets a mysterious new girl who seems to have climbed out of the sea itself,while Mildred falls for the bad boy of Saturday detention. But...
Wicked things
Allison, John
Paper Book
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNHIRED The Eisner Award winning team of John Allison and Max Sarin return to the world of Giant Days for a new series about everyone's favorite child detective; Charlotte Grote. Nineteen year old Charlotte Grote has her whole life ahead of her; headed straight to Oxford and a...
The great British bump-off
Allison, John
Paper Book
When she enters her country's most beloved baking competition, Shauna Wickle's goal is to delight the judges, charm the nation, and make a few friends along the way. But when a fellow contestant is poisoned, it falls to her to apprehend the culprit while avoiding premature elimination from the UK...
By night. Volume one
Allison, John
Paper Book
Booklist Starred Review Recipient! There's something strange going on in Spectrum, South Dakota.  Home to high school best friends Jane Langstaff and Heather Meadows, Spectrum is a boomtown that's long since stopped booming, with nothing to show for its former glory but the abandoned...

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